JA RULE NO MORE: GETS SLAMMER TIME!

Ja Rule sentenced
Splash News Online

Rap superstar JA RULE is heading to the house – the BIG HOUSE!

In a gun case, the platinum selling rapper and action thesp was sentenced in New York after pleading guilty on attempted criminal weapons possession.

NYPD found a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in a rear door of his $250,000-plus Maybach sports car, which they'd said they'd stopped for speeding after leaving  Manhattan's Beacon Theatre on July 22, 2007.

Headliner Lil Wayne was arrested separately. He later pleaded guilty to the same charge, and spent  eight months in jail.

Ja Rule was nommed for a 2002 best rap album Grammy Award for "Pain Is Love" and his  movie creds include 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" and 2003's "Scary Movie 3."

Ja had been concluding a new CD "Pain Is Love 2."

"Laws are laws," Ja Rule said. "There's nothing I could really do but own up to the situation.

"You know, I try not to regret anything I do in life, because you go through life and you do things, and you man up to them. You own them."