"Always on Time" is a song by American rapper Ja Rule from his third studio album, Pain Is Love (2001).

The song was released as the album's second single on November 27, 2001, through Island Def Jam Music Group, Def Jam Recordings and Gotti's Murder Inc. Records.

"Always on Time" spent two weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in February and March of 2002, becoming Ja Rule's highest-charting single as lead artist.

It was Ashanti's first mainstream number-one and Ja Rule's second after he was featured on Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Real (Murder Remix)".

As Ja Rule explained to Billboard: "7 had this CD and he threw it in the garbage, Gotti.