Rapper Ja Rule watched every New York Knicks game while in prison

Rapper Ja Rule has fallen off the map in the tail end of the 00’s after being one of rap music’s most popular figures at the turn of the century, making hit singles with pop acts and feuding with the likes of 50 Cent. Now after prison Ja Rule is looking to make a comeback, and talked to Complex and revealed some shocking things about just how easy prison is as long as you aren’t being locked up amongst the general population.

Ja Rule didn’t do regular lock-up while serving his time. He was with others in PC (protective custody) away from the general population. A benefit considering that those in PC get a cushier experience than those who have to toil away with other (read: violent and dangerous) criminals.

Benefits like getting to watch more New York Knicks games than Spike Lee.

"Reports said you had friends up there—other celebrities that were in PC with you.Absolutely. I was there with [former Tyco International CEO] Dennis Kozlowski, [former New York state comptroller] Alan Hevesi, Larry Salander, the art tycoon. They were all good guys. Me and Alan, he’s a Knicks fan like me, so we watched a lot of Knicks together, never missed a game. We talked politics. The election was going on while I was locked up, Obama and Romney so we would talk a lot about that. Hevesi is a Democrat so we were on the same side."

With Ja Rule in prison until late this spring, the rapper got to enjoy one of the better years of New York basketball in a long time, a benefit that surely would have made prison easier and goes to show you that even behind the cold, harsh walls of prison, celebrities still get to live the high life.