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Ja and Fiddy-Class all the way.

How can the 50 Cent-Ja Rule tiff be so boring? A trial is now ongoing in which credible testimony links Ja and the self-styled Gotti brothers, heads of his record label, Murder Inc., to a murder attempt on Fiddy, the biggest star in the world right now, even if his movie is bombing. The Gottis are also credibly accused of laundering money for Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a scary gangster who single-handedly turned South Jamaica into a crack den-and who kept hoods around for the express purpose of killing members of his harem who refused to have abortions.

Class all the way.

"I went and followed her around," one Phillip Banks testified of one such job recently, "got her routine, and once I had her routine down, you know what I'm saying, I got the rest of the squad, and we made attempts to murder her." Even with such Kingpin-like evildoing going on, the trial is about as exciting as watching a waterlogged slug ooze its way across the sidewalk. To be fair, though, Ja did prove once and for all that Tupac was fundamentally a formula to be distilled, and Fiddy that hip-hop has nothing to do with music.

Here's a game-try to imagine rock stars feuding like rappers. Really.