The 1st single released off his 3rd album, ‘Pain Is Love’. The song became a worldwide hit and was Ashanti’s first Hot 100 number one single and Ja Rule’s second. The song spent 2 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 from February 23 to March 7, 2002. It was followed by another Ja Rule duet, “Ain’t It Funny” with Jennifer Lopez. In 2009, it was named the 33rd most successful song of the 2000s, on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Songs of the Decade Chart.