Watch Ja Rule Mispronounce Greek Food Dishes In Bizarre Local Restaurant Commercial

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Watch Ja Rule Mispronounce Greek Food Dishes In Bizarre Local Restaurant Commercial
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Ja Rule did the commercial as a way to help the small business during this time.

The internet is reacting to a bizarre commercial that has surfaced featruing Ja Rule promoting a local greek restaurant.

A little over a minute long, the commercial finds Ja promoting a Los Angeles Greek deli named Papa Cristo’s Greek Grill. Superimposed in front of gyros — he declares that Papa Cristo has the “best motherf**king gyros” — and scenes from the restaurant, the rapper attempts to pronounce a number of Greek dishes the deli offers including tzatziki, oktapodakia, and avgolemono soup.

“Come on down to Papa Cristo, you can’t even pronounce the food, it’s so go**amn good,” the rapper says toward the end of the video.

As CNN noted, the commercial is actually for a new TBS reality TV show called Celebrity Show-Off where, “Each week, celebrities face. off to see who can produce the most compelling content from their homes.” Ja’s commercial is a part of a show he’s doing called Pitch Perfect. In the video below, he explains how the commercial was inspired by his want to help out small businesses.

A number of people have since reacted to the video online.

And, of course, even 50 Cent had something to say about it.

https://twitter.com/nsa1im/status/1274905845256589312

Ja has since responded to the commercial’s spread on social media.

In related news, Ja said he wanted to square off against 50 in a Verzuz battle. While Fat Joe was broadcasting on Instagram Live with Swizz Beatz a couple months back, Ja called Joe to deliver the news. “Ja Rule is saying he loves hip-hop first and foremost,” Joe told Swizz. “He wants to do this for the culture.”

Unfortunately, 50 isn’t interested in participating.

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