AP - Rapper Ja Rule has lost a bid to keep a loaded gun found in his luxury car from being used against him in a New York weapons-possession case.

Rapper JA RULE has been reprimanded by a New York judge for failing to show up for an April (08) court date - because he was on tour in Germany.On Wednesday (28May08), lawyer Stacey Richman blamed the error on the organisers of the German tour, arguing the dates had been booked by mistake.Supreme Court Justice Micki Scherer told the star - real ...

AP - A judge says she is troubled that rapper Ja Rule has posted thousands of dollars in bonds for two co-defendants in a gun possession case and she wants them to come up with their own bail packages.

AP - A judge in New York says Ja Rule can't post bail for co-defendants in a gun possession case — and she wants the duo to come up with their own money.

US rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne have been arrested on charges of carrying illegal firearms in New York.