Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Fat Joe - Page 2
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
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.
It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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.
All rappers exaggerate.
I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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.
I make hits.
We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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.'
There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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.
I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.
Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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 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.
Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'
Donald Trump, you already know. We can't have that guy in office.
Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
I wish we had more diversity.
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.
There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
I grew up pretty much with nothing.
For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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.
Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
I love owning my masters.
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.'
I can't comment on a person who won't comment on me in a positive light.
Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.
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