Editing Ja Rule (section)

===Cash Money Click (1994–95)===
Atkins began his rap career in 1994 with the hip hop group Cash Money Click alongside members Chris Black and O-1. He took the stage name "Ja Rule", telling [[MTV News]] that the name came from a friend who addressed him by that name; other friends simply called him "Ja".<ref name="Rules of the Game 2">{{cite web|last=Waller|first=Curtis|title=Ja Rule: Rules of the Game|url=http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/j/jarule01/index2.jhtml|publisher=MTV News|date=February 17, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010820065650/http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/j/jarule01/index2.jhtml|archive-date=August 20, 2001|access-date=August 17, 2008}}</ref> Together they worked with producer [[Irv Gotti|DJ Irv]] to produce a number of songs, releasing their debut single "Get Tha Fortune" independently in 1994. After the group signed with [[TVT Records]], the song was re-released through the label later that year as the B-side to their second single, "4 My Click". "4 My Click" featured [[Mic Geronimo]] and became popular on [[pirate radio]], eventually receiving airplay on [[Yo! MTV Raps]]. Plans for the release of the group's eponymous debut studio album were brought to a halt in 1995 after Chris Black was sentenced to five years in prison and the group was dropped from TVT, which led to their third single "She Swallowed It" never officially being released, however it was later bootlegged. With no label, the group disbanded shortly after being dropped.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1451354/ja-rule-re-teams-with-cash-money-click-for-lp/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530232828/http://www.mtv.com/news/1451354/ja-rule-re-teams-with-cash-money-click-for-lp/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 30, 2015|title=Ja Rule Re-Teams With Cash Money Click For LP|first=Shaheem|last=Reid|website=MTV News}}</ref>