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Fat Joe
American
Musician
Born:
Aug 19
,
1970
Being
Love
Me
People
Time
You
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
Fat Joe
Saying
People
Hear
Hit
Want
Formula
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
Music
Winter
Water
Videos
Group
Purest
Beach
Feels
Like
Hip-Hop
Shooting
Ice
I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
Fat Joe
Failure
You
Diabetes
Lose
Lost
Kidney
Stroke
Eyesight
More
Weight
Since
Know
Most
Diabetic
Years
Off
Get
Just
Being
Cut
Toes
Your
I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
Fat Joe
Take
Fit
Get
Trying
Where
Next
Next Level
Level
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
You
People
Ride
Fans
Darkest
Believe
Sun
Out
Joe
Only
Days
Terror
Got
Real
Squad
Fan
Fat
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
Me
Honour
Kid
Hop
Bronx
Motherland
Hip
Hip-Hop
Get
Represent
Little
Little Kid
Created
Watched
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
Buy
Food
You
Legal
People
Walk
High
Take
Like
Get
Store
Cents
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
Rain
Garden
Matter
Fans
Rate
Knicks
True
Like
Make
Still
Years
Snow
Heat
Full
Stands
Even
Playoffs
Basketball
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
Me
You
Respect
Fire
Lose
Further
Out
Tell
Touch
More
More And More
Take
Never
Step
Because
Got
Hip-Hop
Due
Greats
Legacy
Just
Being
Burned
Succeed
Need
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
Heart
People
Try
Matters
Backs
Recognition
About
Something
Talking
Deals
Truly
Brand
Celebrity
Brands
Endorsement
Forgotten
Unfortunately
Gain
Core
Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
Fat Joe
Powerful
Island
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
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
Game
Culture
People
Will
Later
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Know
Because
Understand
Go
Just
After
Bring
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe
Music
Somewhere
Everything
Evolve
Fresh
Go
Keeps
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
Me
Man
Gave
Sign
Eminem
Shame
He
Him
Got
Demos
Times
Six
Different
Biggest
Regrets
Many
Different Times
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
Gay
You
People
Think
Gays
Presidents
Stations
Hop
Rappers
Mafia
Magazines
Give
Most
Likely
Industry
Editorial
Hip
Hip-Hop
Owned
Happen
Who
Radio
Radio Stations
Shows
Award
Award Shows
Awards
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
Out
Weeks
Got
Amateur
Won
Where
Theater
Apollo
Row
Four
Start
Started
Night
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
Music
Time
You
Analyze
Bronx
Would
Would-Be
Gladiator
Almost
Because
How
Equivalent
Era
Coming
Lot
Up
Movie
Really
Violence
See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
Fat Joe
Me
Run
See
Put
Failures
Successes
Away
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe
Love
Health
Family
Heart
World
Care
Healthy
Everything
Stroke
Eat
Attack
Could
Take
Take Care
Catch
Got
Still
Just
If I Could
Watch
Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
Fat Joe
People
Will
Big
Become
Part
Industry
Am
Big Part
Chances
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
Be Happy
Happy
Culture
People
Money
Just Be
Everybody
Focused
Only
Misconception
Industry
Hip-Hop
Just
Biggest
Should
Working
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
Success
You
Man
People
Inspire
Achieve
Once
Tells
Something
Share
Learn
Got
Even
Level
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
Saying
Gay
You
People
World
Hide
Be Real
Like
Know
Got
Real
Millions
I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
Fat Joe
Good
Me
People
Inspire
Good People
Nothing
Come
Least
Up
Really
Many
Growing
Growing Up
J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.
Fat Joe
Man
Bench
Incredible
Smith
Off
Just
I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
Fat Joe
Big
Once
Independent
Failed
Real
Twice
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