It’s been 8 years since we’ve seen some official label work from the multi-Platinum Ja Rule, with R.U.L.E. marking the end of his 1999-2004 Billboard and mainstream reign, and with the strange and undefined hiatus now concluded, we’ve got Vecci’s seventh studio album Pain Is Love 2 to follow-up its 2001 predecessor and, hopefully, negate that Exodus and The Mirror mess that happened between R.U.L.E. and now.
All accolades out, I’m sorry to say, Pain Is Love 2 is nothing short of a poorly pop-aimed collection of babble, all lost in the been-and-gone mentality, and coated over in studio gloss that gives it the air of a cheap “made in China” quality rather than something in the vein of Venni Vetti Vecci or Rule 3:36. Half of the album is wasted on Skylar Grey-esque hooks and effects to mask Ja Rule’s ultimate inability to deliver respectable lines, and the only word to describe J. Atkins and M. Vest’s production throughout is glamorized...
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