Unless you are a hardcore rap head, you probably did not know that Jay-Z, Ja Rule and DMX teamed up for a brief time in the late 1990s to create a handful of tracks together. The trio still has not released the tracks.
According to MTV, the trio first collaborated on Mic Geronimo's "Time to Build" in 1995 and collaborated on two underground rap hits "Mudergram" and "It's Murda" years later. They even did the cover of XXL together in 1999 before they split.
Ja recently revealed that an album was close to release.
"We tried to deliver that album," he said. "It was a situation where egos all just played a part in its demise."
The trio was supposed to be called Murda Inc., the same name that Ja and Irv Gotti took for their record label.
"We couldn't get X and Jay in the same room, from long ago, their storied battle on the pool table, guns out [and] all of that," Ja said. "That carried over into our careers and we were all trying to do our thing separately and it carried over. It was hard to get all of us into a room to do what we needed to do."
But still, it happened.
"We did a few records together and those records will always be classics to a lot of people in the history of hip-hop," Ja said. "I wish that album would've came to fruition, it would've been real dope. I think there might be one — one or two joints that's still out there that you haven't heard."
Who has them? Ja had a quick answer.
"Gotti got 'em," he said.
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