Words matter. These are the best Fat Joe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
I love Lil Wayne; that’s like my little brother. He’s just the coolest dude on Earth.
I think I’ll die underrated, but it’s alright, man.
When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled. When I introduce you to an artist, her name is Remy Ma. If I introduce you to somebody, it’s Cool and Dre or Scott Storch – people who change the face of the game.
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That’s huge! That’s Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I’ll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There’s more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that’s what it is.
KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, ‘I’m gonna change my life, I’m going legit. This is where I’m at.’
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.
What I do like about Donald Trump is that he’s not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he’s nobody’s puppet.
Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
There’s millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you’ve got to hide that you’re gay? Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, be real.
All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don’t just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he’s a star. He’s a pillar of the community.
There isn’t a country I ain’t touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That’s what keeps it fresh.
I don’t think the Republicans care much about minorities.
I’m trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
MTV shows me love.
I love owning my masters.
After the success of my first album and the success of ‘Flow Joe’ kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.
It feels as if I never get my just due.
I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
I was scared to fly for a long time.
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it’s killing people.
During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what’s going on in the ‘hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he’s speaking Spanish, and he’s speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers – the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
There’s nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
The ‘hood don’t really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
Fat Joe ain’t out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That’s not what I’m about.
Once you achieve a level of success… you learn, something tells you, ‘Man this ain’t even for you.’ You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It’s always been my name and always will be.
If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don’t know how that all came about.
I’m not just a rapper. I’m a child educator.
Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he’s ever been before? It’s hard. To come from all this huge success like a ‘What’s Love,’ and a ‘Lean Back,’ then take it back to the street with ‘The Darkside.’
We gotta be proud to be Latino. It’s almost like we cheating because we’re American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
I’m known to be hands on 100%. I don’t know any other way to be than a leader by example.
Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
There’s two systems of health care: the one for the rich that’s really good, then there’s the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
Talking to people from the heart matters, and it’s unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
I collaborate with Tidal because they’re for the artists – the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It’s like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.
I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
I could battle rap forever, but it’s a joke to me.
If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a ‘Braveheart’ or ‘Gladiator’ movie would be.
If you gay, you gay. Like, that’s your preference, you know?
I always loved being fat, obviously. I’m Fat Joe.
It’s hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He’s so fun; people love him.
I was at a party New Year’s Eve, and – no lie – at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, ‘I lost 30 pounds because of you.’ So people just coming up to me. I don’t know these people – random people.
When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
When it’s all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that’s them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.
I don’t rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what – rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don’t make it to the playoffs for 10 years – the Garden stands are still full.
I’ve failed once or twice real big, independent.
I’m trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
Mister Cee’s a legend, man.
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it’s an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos – six different times he approached me, and I didn’t sign him. Shame on me.
We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That’s where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.