Top 70 Fat Joe Quotes

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 beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
Fat Joe
I love Lil Wayne; that’s like my little brother. He’s just the coolest dude on Earth.
Fat Joe
I think I’ll die underrated, but it’s alright, man.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
Fat Joe
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.’
Fat Joe
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
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.
Fat Joe
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That’s what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe
I don’t think the Republicans care much about minorities.
Fat Joe
I’m trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
Fat Joe
Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
Fat Joe
MTV shows me love.
Fat Joe
I love owning my masters.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.
Fat Joe
It feels as if I never get my just due.
Fat Joe
I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
Fat Joe
I was scared to fly for a long time.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
There’s nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
Fat Joe
The ‘hood don’t really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
Fat Joe
Fat Joe ain’t out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That’s not what I’m about.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It’s always been my name and always will be.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I’m not just a rapper. I’m a child educator.
Fat Joe
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.’
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I’m known to be hands on 100%. I don’t know any other way to be than a leader by example.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
Fat Joe
I could battle rap forever, but it’s a joke to me.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
If you gay, you gay. Like, that’s your preference, you know?
Fat Joe
I always loved being fat, obviously. I’m Fat Joe.
Fat Joe
It’s hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
Fat Joe
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He’s so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
When it’s all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

I’ve failed once or twice real big, independent.
Fat Joe
I’m trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
Fat Joe
Mister Cee’s a legend, man.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
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.
Fat Joe
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That’s where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
Fat Joe