Fat Joe Quotes
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
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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.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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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.'
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MTV shows me love.
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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.
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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.
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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.