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        <title><![CDATA[Ja Rule goes viral in expletive-laden TV spot for Greek restaurant]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">He’s gone from “Holla Holla” to “Opa Opa!” </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Ja Rule has recorded his biggest hit in years — a bizarre, low-budget TV commercial for a Greek restaurant that has racked up millions of views.</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“Papa Cristo’s got the best motherf—ing gyros you ever f—ing ate in your life! S–t is so good!” the Queens-born rapper says in the now-viral, expletive-laden spot for Papa Cristo’s Greek Grill in Los Angeles.</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Wearing a black “I heart Greece” T-shirt, the 44-year-old star appears superimposed over scenes from the restaurant — stumbling over the pronunciation of dishes like tzatziki, oktapodakia, kreatopita and avgolemono soup.</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“You can’t even pronounce the food, it’s so goddamn good!” he says — with a cartoon scene seemingly showing the elderly owner as a dancing DJ. The minute-long spot ends with Ja Rule trying to do a Greek dance, smiling at the camera as he cries, “Opa!”</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“Thanks for making my commercial trend and go viral!!!” the <a href="https://twitter.com/jarule/status/1275036546786373633" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rapper tweeted Monday</a>, with the video already racking up almost 3 million views.</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">He then revealed that it was filmed as part of a new TBS reality TV show, </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“Celebrity Show-Off,”</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> where stars compete with each other to get the most YouTube views.</span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">As well as supporting a mom-and-pop restaurant that he praised as a “staple in LA,” the ad also helped raise cash for the charity No Kid Hungry, he tweeted.</span></p><p><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial.jpg" /></p><p>Ja Rule in Papa Cristo&#8217;s commercial</p><p class="credit">celebrityshowoff</p><p><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial2-1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial2-1.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/celebrity-show-off-ja-rule-commercial2-1.jpg" /></p><p class="credit">celebrityshowoff</p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Fans said it also helped take attention away from the <strong>rapper’s infamous role</strong> in the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival. </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“This is the single greatest work of art to emerge in 2020, and Ja Rule is now forgiven for the whole Fyre Fest thing,” <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1275049298078699520" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David Burge wrote</a>, getting retweeted by the star himself.</span></p><p>“This is the funniest s–t I have seen on the internet in a while!” marketing expert Carlos Gil said, insisting that if you watch it and “don’t laugh your ass off, then 2020 stole your sense of humor.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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