Ja Rule Says Jailhouse Toilet Paper Tore His Ass Up

Ja Rule has a theory about jail and the mentality that he now carries over into his life outside bars.

“One of the reasons I do work out [is that], when you go to jail, you get a jail mentality. So you come out with that same thinking [as] in jail. Your mentality is, you make your whole body a weapon. There’s nothing to do so, you work the f–k out. But the theory of it is, ‘I’m dangerous, I’m strong, I’m fast, I’ll kill you with my bare hands.’ That is the theory of working out,” he told Page Six Thursday.

The 42-year-old Queens rapper served about two years starting in 2011 for illegal gun possession and tax evasion.

However, the “Growing Up Hip Hop” star still carries one horrible jailhouse memory to this day. “When I was locked up, that toilet paper was tearing my ass. It is the next step to wiping your ass with a Brillo pad. You go to the bathroom a couple times just hoping, ‘Please, I don’t wanna go to the bathroom no more because I don’t wanna wipe.'”

He added, “When they strip you naked, that is now associated with the best moment you have in jail: Seeing your loved ones. So every week, you can’t wait to see your family, but it’s right after that strip. Lift your nut sack, spread your ass. So now you’re like, ‘Damn, I hate being violated, but I want to see my family.’

“It’s 10 dudes lined up; you’re not by yourself, and that’s the thing. They tell you to open your mouth and make sure you have nothing in your mouth with the same fingers.”

Despite everything that’s happened since, Ja still remembers his “made it” moment. “My ‘made it’ moment was when I made my first million-dollar check. I had been a millionaire before I got the million-dollar check, over the years. But in one lump, that felt a little different. That was in 2000 or 2001.”

“Growing Up Hip Hop” airs on Thursdays on WE tv.

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