On “Lost Little Girl,” Ja Rule pities a promiscuous 17-year-old short on self-respect. Even so . . .
It doesn’t stop the rapper from using her, sexually. That track and others are full of obscenities and graphic sexual references. He commonly refers to women as “b–ches,” and boasts of having multiple partners on opposite coasts (“Dial M for Murder”) and in the same bed (“Smokin’ and Ridin’”). The party isn’t complete without Ecstasy, marijuana, cognac, Cristal, Hennessy and crack cocaine (which he also sells on “Worldwide Gangsta”). This thug describes his ideal woman as a girl who’d die for him and shoot cops for him (“Down A– B–ches”). That violent swagger also appears on “So Much Pain” (“Never been a stranger to homicide”), “Dial M for Murder” (“I’m a beast with animalistic intentions”) and “Never Again,” which talks of blowing someone away with a hollow-tipped bullet. His spirituality is summed up in the line, “It’s crazy to ask upon the Lord for help when I got guns to bust and drugs to sell.”
Born Jeff Atkins, this artist does little to set himself apart from standard gangsta trash. He’s vile. He’s a misogynist. And he’s right when he says, “I’m a drug to your youth and you don’t want ’em nowhere near me.
