Ja Rule is currently enjoying the spoils of his labor, but there was a time when his empty pockets would lead him to skip out on the Red Lobster bill.
Us Weekly spoke to the Queens rapper on Thursday, July 10, at a premiere party for his new mixed slushie drink at Tender Crush crispy chicken joint in the Soho district of New York City. There, Ja Rule — whose new whiskey, Amber & Opal, recently hit the market — revealed that he wanted his now-wife, Aisha, to enjoy the finer things in life, even when it wasn’t in his budget.
“It’s interesting because I’ve known my wife since I was broke. Some of our best dates were then. I used to take her to, like, Red Lobster and s***,” he said to the outlet. “I actually ran out on the meal and she didn’t know it. So I set it up, we ate and I told her, ‘Hey, let me finish up paying for this, take care of this. The cab’s outside, you go get in the cab.'”
But Ja Rule claims that Red Lobster was to blame for the dine & dash incidents. “And this was the fault of Red Lobster, because right by the door was the bathroom and pay phone. So people used to go fake like they on a pay phone, slide out, hit the bathroom, slide out. So, yeah, I did that.”
Still, his wife — whom he’s been married to 24 years, and with whom he shares three children — only recently found out about Ja Rule’s tricky dinner ways.
“We used to eat good,” he recalled. “Those are the good times that you have. And we [are] able to still laugh about and share when we’re eating good and actually paying for the meals. You remember those times.”
