Grammy-nominated rapper Ja Rule took the first step towards calling a truce with hip-hop’s reigning bad boy, 50 Cent, on Thursday, October 23, when he visited Minister Louis Farrakhan on the Nation Of Islam farm, according to Allhiphop.com. The rapper’s conversation with the Nation Of Islam head will be broadcast in the coming weeks on several urban radio stations; Farrakhan is also scheduled to have a one-on-one meeting with 50 Cent in the coming weeks, as well as one-on-ones with Murder Inc. Records CEO Irv Gotti and 50 Cent’s manager, Chris Lighty.

Ja Rule and 50 Cent have been involved in a feud that originated in the streets of Queens long before the two rappers scored multiplatinum success. The ongoing battle turned violent in 2000, when Ja Rule and 50 Cent were involved in a fistfight in Atlanta, and later that year members of Ja Rule’s entourage allegedly stabbed 50 Cent at the Hit Factory recording studio in New York.

Minister Farrakhan has been known to settle past disputes in the hip-hop community. He brought Snoop Dogg and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs together in 1997 in an attempt to bring peace between the East Coast and West Coast following the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. In the ’90s he also brokered a peace between Common and Ice Cube, who were exchanging verbal jabs, as well as between Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and Wreckx-N-Effect’s Posse Deep crew following an altercation between the two camps at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.

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