Whether he’s on your top 5 list or not, you have to give props to Fat Joe. He’s been releasing albums since 1993 and still is relevant today. Additionally he introduced us to one of the greatest MC’s to ever touch the microphone, Big Pun.
Unfortunately the Don Cartagena is headed to prison stemming from some unpaid income tax earnings from 2007 to 2010. Joe Crack paid his bills, but the government still handed him a four-month sentence.
With this “vacation” of sorts looming, Joe hit up Power 105’s The Breakfast Club for a very memorable appearance. The candid Terror Squad general spoke to DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God for almost an hour in an interview where many cats were let out of the bag.
Here are the top 10 things we learned about Fat Joe from The Breakfast Club interview.
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Fat Joe and Notorious B.I.G. planned to release an album together. A couple of songs were recorded but strangely have yet to see the light of day.
Joe’s biggest disappointment as an executive is R&B crooner Tony Sunshine. “[Record labels] fronted on him because he was Spanish and they didn’t understand a Spanish guy singing R&B – bottom line”.
Regardless of Joe’s broken relationship with Big Pun’s wife, he thinks Chris Rivers
“is super nice”.
Joe got caught up in a ponzi scheme with an accountant which eventually got him in hot water with the IRS.
Hard to believe but Crack caught the fade on the daily basis while attending Junior High School. It seems even Fat Joe was forced to lean back.
Photo: ThisIs50
Fat Joe unknowingly once stole a car belonging to a Bronx drug kingpin. Said heavyweight found out it was Joe and put his hand in a meat grinder as a scare tactic. It worked.
After hearing Mobb Deep’s music for the first time, Joe thought Prodigy and Havoc had to be the most g’d up rappers on the east coast. He finally saw what they looked like in person at a concert and knew then Rap is purely entertainment. Welp. [Editor’s Note: You lost if you think that’s Havoc in the middle of the pic.]
Joe took Big Pun to meet Nas and Kool G. Rap in Queens. Nas’ face lit up when he heard Pun rap for the first time – this is when Joe knew Pun was going to be “incredible”.
Joe in an indirect manner both admits and denies that he and his boys hit Jay-Z with a bottle at a club years back:
“when that allegedly took place was at a very young part of my life”.
Photo: YouTube
Finally Joe clarifies why he has the right to use the dreaded N-word: “because I am that n*gga – bottom line.” Any questions?
