Uncle Murda and Tony Yayo found themselves on a Delta flight from San Francisco to New York JFK with Ja Rule. They’re part of a beef of sworn enemies for more than two decades. And they were thrown together inside a plane. Things got rowdy – but the violence appears to have been limited to throwing business class pillows, ending with flight removal.
50 Cent and Ja Rule are Queens rappers whose rivalry goes back to the late 1990s, exploding into one of hip hop’s defining feuds of the early 2000s.
It started with a chain-snatching robbery incident. 50 believed Ja (or people around him) were aligned with someone who robbed him, and treated it as ‘you’re with them, you’re against me.’
50 Cent built early momentum by relentlessly dissing Ja Rule in songs, interviews, and eventually online. Ja Rule responded in kind. And it became part of their public personas.
In 2000, 50 Cent was shot multiple times. While Ja Rule isn’t credited as the shooter, it fed the feud. When 50 broke big and built G-Unit into both a group and a brand, the feud scaled from two artists into two camps: G-Unit versus Murder, Inc.
Tony Yayo is a core G-Unit lieutenant and long-time 50 Cent ally. Uncle Murda is in the same orbit and plays the hype man role. At this point the beef is half real grudge, half brand maintenance. Two rival crews from the same borough turned a personal dispute into years of diss records and public trolling, and they got thrown together inside a metal Delta tube enroute back home to Queens.
About a year and a half ago, another late 90’s hip hop star kicked out of American Airlines first class. Meanwhile, rapper DJ Drama was kicked off United after filming another passenger being kicked off United.
