Venni Vetti Vecci, the debut album from Ja Rule, was additionally the inaugural launch of Homicide Inc. Launched in the summertime of 1999, it was an excellent assertion of goal. On Venni Vetti Vecci, you couldn’t assist however hear label founder and producer Irv Gotti’s template: Reduce-throat lyrics and way of life brags, joined as much as a mixture of rowdy club-centric manufacturing and sweeter R&B-influenced outings. It was a file that served discover that Homicide Inc. had arrived.
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True to the somber picture of Ja Rule gazing at a statue of Jesus on the album cowl, non secular imagery and iconography abound on Venni Vetti Vecci. On the opening “The March Prelude,” the raspy baritone manages to challenge each a rallying cry to “all my murderers!” whereas additionally pleading to a better non secular energy: “Lord, can we get a break?/ We ain’t really happy here/ Take a look into our eyes/ And see pain without fear.”
That is hardly the one time that Ja juxtaposes brazenly murderous threats with allusions towards spirituality. “God, why the hell am I here?/ Is it a blessing or a painful lesson of life and its directions?” Ja asks on the string-laden “Race Against Time,” earlier than channeling his steely streak to challenge an unrepentant warning: “I embraced and showed you love/ Then I throw slugs/ At the other side, go get ’em in broad daylight.”
As Venni Vetti Vecci performs out, high-grade company assist out: Jay-Z joins for “Kill ‘Em All” and the rumbling “Murda” (the latter track also co-stars a typically energized DMX). Veteran EPMD MC and producer Erick Sermon provides musical and verbal support on the low-key melodious “E-Dub And Ja,” while loftily comparing his presence to both Big Daddy Kane and Godzilla. Ronald Isley, meanwhile, lends his voice to the cautionary letter-to-a daughter “Daddy’s Little Child.” However regardless of the sprinkling of bigger title expertise dotted all through Venni Vetti Vecci, the host MC is rarely overshadowed. His cocksure presence befits the interpretation of the album’s Latin title: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
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