Blaze Magazine – August 1999 (Ja Rule Cover, Ready to Conquer Issue)

A Piece of Blaze Magazine History

Blaze, August 1999. Ja Rule shot right where the story started, on the block in Hollis, Queens, his people at his back. "Ready to Conquer," the cover promises, and the timing is everything, catching him just before Venni Vetti Vecci made him a household name. This was Blaze in its short, loud life, putting late-nineties hip-hop on newsstands with zero apologies. Inside: JT Money, Trick Daddy, GZA, MC Eiht and the Blaze Battle champs. A rare survivor from one of the genre's most collectible short-run titles. Original print magazine in collectible condition.