Ja Rule On Aaliyah: ‘You Don’t Expect People To Really Die That Way’

Ja Rule spoke with Launch.com on the tragic death of Aaliyah last Saturday as a Cessna she rode in crashed shortly after takeoff in the Bahamas. Ja Rule revealed, “I was in L.A. when it happened. Me and Aaliyah was good friends, you know, I was just with her at BET on 106 And Park, we was there last week together, and you know, you don’t know how to react to sh-t like that cause it’s like it wasn’t her time to go. It’s like a crazy incident, an airplane crash. You don’t expect people to really die that way.”

Ja Rule says the incident made him realize just how real life is adding, “But once again life let’s you know how real it is, you understand, and to her whole family and everybody, the deepest condolences. I don’t know. It’s just hard. The first thing I did when I heard the news was official is I called my mother and called my wife, you know just to say, ‘I love y’all.’ Anything can happen, this is proven that, you know, anything can happen. I just called them to let them know I love them cause anything can happen to me too.”