Ja Rule Snubbed By Music Industry For Award Nominations

While Ja Rule’s nemesis 50 Cent received a total of 10 Billboard 2003 R&B/Hip-Hop Awards nominations yesterday along with multiple BET Award nominations, Ja was noticeably absent from the nominee lists, both of which are based upon industry opinion. “We didn’t snub him, he just wasn’t selected,” Tosha Whitten-Griggs of BET corporate communications told SOHH.com. “The voting academy, record labels, press, websites, didn’t think he should be nominated.” But were they worried about Ja and 50 being in the same ceremony together? “Never that.”