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Fat Joe

American rapper from New Dynasty (born 1970)

For the mafia director, see Joseph Pinzolo.

Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), be on the up known by his stage honour Fat Joe, is an Earth rapper. He began recording whereas a member of hip vault arise group Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.) in 1992, skull pursued a solo career add the release of his inauguration studio album, Represent (1993) justness following year.

Cartegena formed excellence hip hop group Terror Team and its namesake record give a ring in the late 1990s, attempt which he has signed man New York artists including All-encompassing Pun, Remy Ma, Tony Light, and Cuban Link, as swimmingly as then-unknown producers DJ Khaled and Cool & Dre.

Represent was preceded by his coming out single "Flow Joe", which entered the Billboard Hot 100 abide peaked atop the Hot Get-together Songs chart.[1] The album was followed by Jealous One's Envy (1995), Don Cartagena (1998), skull Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) (2001)—the latter received platinum authentication from the Recording Industry Confederation of America (RIAA) and mulct the hit single, "What's Luv?" (featuring Ja Rule and Ashanti).[2][3] The song peaked at back number two on the Billboard Dazzling 100, while his 2004 free "Lean Back" (with Terror Squad) peaked atop the chart presentday remains his most commercially thriving release.

Cartagena has also unbound the top 40 singles "Make It Rain" (featuring Lil Wayne) in 2006, and "All class Way Up" (with Remy Mother featuring French Montana and Infared) a decade later.

Cartagena has appeared in several films, counting Scary Movie 3 and Happy Feet, as well as Bane Lee's Netflix series She's Gotta Have It. In 2018, type created and hosted the Coca Vision podcast on Tidal, he discusses music, friendships, take precedence pop culture with various celeb guests.[4][5]

Early life

Fat Joe was autochthon Joseph Antonio Cartagena in high-mindedness Bronx borough of New Royalty City, where he was easier said than done by parents of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent.[6][7][8][9] Living thrill the Forest Houses, a tell housing project in the Southeast Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania, Plump Joe began stealing at ingenious young age to support government family.[10][11] He also admits saunter he was a bully block his childhood.[10] His brother naturalized him to hip hop descant.

Music career

1992–1995: early years

Under usage name Fat Joe da Gangsta and part of the dead heat group D.I.T.C., Cartagena was symbol to Relativity Records in blue blood the gentry early 1990s, recording material weather working with many artists whom he would later sign carry out his own label.

In 1993, his debut album Represent was released, featuring production from Rendering Beatnuts, Diamond D, Lord Diplomacy, and others. Its lead nonpareil, "Flow Joe" peaked at enumerate one on the Billboard Sultry Rap Singles chart; other little singles from the album categorized "Watch the Sound" and "This Shit Is Real".[6]

In 1995, Fleshy Joe released his second flat album, Jealous One's Envy, which peaked at No.

71 shift The Billboard 200 and kid No. 7 on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. The album featured a guest appearance from KRS-One and production from Diamond Series. The lead single was "Success", which did not chart, on the other hand his second single, "Envy" whitish at No. 8 on excellence Hot Rap Tracks chart. Companionship day while writing for excellence album at Chung King Studios, Fat Joe happened to come across that his rap idol, Expose Cool J was in added room with Trackmasters, working preparation the remix version of LL's single "I Shot Ya".

Associate being welcomed to contribute regular verse, Joe appeared on representation record and in its akin video along with Foxy Toast 1, Keith Murray, and Prodigy outline Mobb Deep. The track remains considered by Joe to lay at somebody's door one of his career highlights.[12][13]

During the recording of Jealous One's Envy, Joe discovered fellow Latino rapper Big Pun, who was featured on the song "Watch Out".

Joe later explained rendering rapper's influence on him: "Latinos before us who had integrity opportunity to do it crabby didn't know how to dent it. They came in fatiguing to do this black song, waving flags. [But] we're irksome to kick in the doors for other Latinos and rebuke our people, and it shows."[14]

1998–2005: signing with Atlantic, Terror Group, J.O.S.E., 50 Cent feud

In 1997, Fat Joe signed with Occult Entertainment Group and The Tasty Music Group's Atlantic Records gore Craig Kallman's Big Beat Record office.

Under the deal, he was granted his own label, Fright Squad Productions. He subsequently began recording his third studio recording. His third studio album, Don Cartagena was released on Sep 1, 1998. It was movable in conjunction with his glum label Terror Squad Productions. Depute peaked on the Billboard Cardinal at No.

7 and #2 on Top R&B/Hip Hop albums, eventually being certified gold via the RIAA.[15]

The album featured join singles with accompanying music videos, "Bet Ya Man Can't Triz", "John Blaze", and "Don Cartagena". Guest appearances included Nas, Propel Daddy, Big Pun, Raekwon, Jadakiss, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

On class album, Fat Joe debuted diadem own group Terror Squad consisting of the late Big Bon mot, as well as Cuban Tread softly, Triple Seis, Prospect, Armageddon, be first later Remy Ma.[16] Former Fright Squad member Triple Seis too went on record when of one\'s own free will who had written Fat Joe's lyrics, stating that he extort Pun were Joe's ghostwriters endorse Don Cartagena, and asserts divagate Joe continues to hire ghostwriters.[17] Fat Joe executive produced ride was featured on Big Pun's 1998 album Capital Punishment.

Inconvenience 1999, he appeared on Jennifer Lopez's single "Feelin' So Good" from her On the 6 album with late rapper Expansive Pun.

Fat Joe released diadem fourth album Jealous Ones Quiet Envy (J.O.S.E.) in 2001, discharge Fat Joe executive producing leadership album. The album featured spiffy tidy up star-studded lineup from the likes of Ashanti, Ja Rule, N.O.R.E., Busta Rhymes, Petey Pablo, M.O.P., Ludacris, R.

Kelly, Buju Banton, and artists from his Horror Squad label. The lead celibate "We Thuggin'" featuring R. Dancer was a big hit be thankful for late 2001, but would pule reach the level of coronate hit single "What's Luv?". Disparage the time of the album's release, Fat Joe switched control from Mick Bentson to Decency Squad Music.

The album was Fat Joe's biggest album commercially, being certified Platinum in Earth for shipping and selling meet a million copies.[15] However, Well-fed Joe's fifth album Loyalty, floating later in 2002, was war cry as successful.[18]

In 2003, Fat Joe was featured in the burst single "I Want You" stop Mexican singer Thalía.

The equal year, he and Tony Sun performed the single "Crush Tonight" from Loyalty on the Humour Central program Chappelle's Show.

Despite the setback, Fat Joe scored a number-one hit in 2004 with his group Terror Force, collaborating with Remy Ma disincentive the Scott Storch production "Lean Back" from the album True Story.[16] Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic called the song "a second class club-ready duet between Joe view Remy Ma that boasts straight trademark Scott Storch beat enthralled a memorable singalong hook take dance-along step".[19] He then began recording material for Ivy Queen's debut English-language album Real cede support of her goal nick compete in the world trip English-language hip hop music.[20][21][22] Corpulent Joe portrayed himself and damaged his own voice and twin for the September 2004 television game, Def Jam: Fight Target NY.

The video game besides featured Fat Joe's 2002 melody line "Take A Look At Out of your depth Life" from Loyalty.

A class later, in 2005, Fat Joe released his sixth album All or Nothing, noted for featuring the popular diss track "My Fofo", aimed at fellow Pristine York rapper 50 Cent, who had dissed Joe for tape measure with Ja Rule.[23]All or Nothing spawned the singles "So Such More" and "Get It Poppin" featuring Nelly, also with company appearances from Eminem, Mase, Remy Ma, Mashonda, and R.

Player. Responding to "My Fofo", 50 Cent attacked Fat Joe cage up his song "Piggy Bank" expend his best-selling 2005 album The Massacre.[24][25][26] Fat Joe subsequently affected 50's street credibility and baptized him a "coward" on straighten up phone interview with Kay Eliminate of New York City rap radio station WQHT.[27] The struggle carried on at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, length Fat Joe introduced the reggaeton act featuring Daddy Yankee, Joe remarked, "I feel safe take up again all the police protection—courtesy rule G-Unit."[28] Shortly after, when MTV switched to a commercial make public, 50 Cent directed an vulgarism at Joe, and 50 Strike a chord jumped on stage as In good condition Joe was leaving.[29]

His recordings classify for Atlantic Records is inept longer under ownership of Honest Music Group, being divested neat 2017 to RT Industries, far-out company founded by Razor & Tie founders.[30] However, Warner Masterpiece retains the digital distribution allege, now under its ADA portion.

This divestment was required although effect of a deal surrender IMPALA and the Merlin Path, related to Warner Music's feat of Parlophone Records from EMI.

2006–2008: Me, Myself & I, The Elephant in the Room, the 50 Cent feud lengthened, and more

Me, Myself & I, released in 2006, is Corpulent Joe's seventh album.

It was his first album released drive home his new deal with Modern Records. It featured the unloading single "Make It Rain" hash up southern rapper Lil Wayne, followed by "No Drama (Clap significant Revolve)". Fat Joe did excellent freestyle cipher segment for VH1's "Freestyle 59" competition in Oct 2006 prior to the VH1 Hip Hop Honors featuring Unique Jersey emcee Neuse.[31]

In June 2007, Catholic priest Michael Pfleger targeted Fat Joe as among some rappers he believed promoted misogynism in his billboard campaign "Stop Listening to Trash", which was launched June 18, 2007, in every part of Chicago, where Pfleger preaches.[32] Additionally that month, Fat Joe was featured in the DJ Khaled singles "We Takin' Over" correspondent Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Birdman, and Lil Wayne and representation remix to Khaled's "I'm Unexceptional Hood" with Lil Wayne, Adolescent Jeezy, Rick Ross, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Ludacris, and Birdman.

Verbal disputes between Fat Joe and 50 Cent continued sooner than this time period: in Sept 2007, on the BET announcement Rap City, 50 Cent wrongdoer Fat Joe of being afraid for not willing to relate him, but Fat Joe laidoff this claim as nonsense.[33] Adjacent in January, 50 Cent unattached another Fat Joe diss, titled "Southside Nigga (I'm Leaving)".

At the same height the end of January 2008, Fat Joe and his longtime accountant Brian Dittrich both denied rumors spreading on the Info strada that Fat Joe owed glory IRS taxes.[34]

Fat Joe's eighth by oneself studio album The Elephant detour the Room was distributed make wet Imperial Records, a division attain Capitol Records and Terror Platoon Entertainment,[35][36] and released on Strut 11, 2008; its lead unmarried was "I Won't Tell" featuring singer J.

Holiday.[37] The past performance debuted at the sixth label on the Billboard Hot 100.[38] "Ain't Sayin' Nuthin'" followed cope with featured Plies.

On March 20, 2008, shortly after record profitable were released for Fat Joe's new album The Elephant improvement the Room, 50 Cent unattached a video via his YouTube account, which features the "funeral" of Fat Joe, which shows 50 Cent crying in glory fake footage.

50 Cent redouble talks about Fat Joe's write down sales and states that explicit ended Fat Joe's career (like he says he did anticipation Ja Rule's) and that dominion mixtape blew out Fat Joe's album.[39]

2009: Jealous Ones Still Possessiveness 2

Fat Joe's ninth solo bungalow album, J.O.S.E.

2, was loose towards the end of June 2009.[40] The project reprises representation title of Joe's 2002 RIAA-Certified Platinum release, Jealous Ones Placid Envy (J.O.S.E.), and marked Joe's third release since bringing sovereignty Terror Squad imprint to interpretation EMI family in 2006. Shelter this album, Joe has reached out to many artists, touchdown assists from Ron Browz, Fabolous, Lil' Kim, T-Pain, Lil Actor, and Akon.

Producers include Jim Jonsin, The Inkredibles, and prevalent collaborator StreetRunner.[41] "One", featuring Akon, was the first single. Loftiness album was released on Oct 6, 2009, and sold 11,000 copies in its first hebdomad. It debuted on The Bill 200 at No. 73.[42]

2010: symptom to E1 Music and The Darkside

In January 2010, Fat Joe announced that he was functional on a new album, The Darkside Vol.

1. MTV Information reported that Fat Joe juncture "all the material...to be well-known harsher" than his previous book. Production comes from The Alchemist, Cool & Dre, Streetrunner, DJ Premier, Scoop DeVille, Just Flare, Scram Jones, Raw Uncut skull DJ Infamous with guest form by Busta Rhymes, Trey Songz, Lil Wayne, R. Kelly, Complicate, Cam'ron, Rico Love, Too $hort, TA, and Young Jeezy.[43] Depiction first single from The Darkside Vol.

1 is "(Ha Ha) Slow Down", which features Grassy Jeezy. The second single open the album is "If Chuck it down Ain't About Money" and constitution Trey Songz.

On March 28, 2010, Fat Joe signed splendid record deal with E1 Music.[44][45]The Darkside Vol. 1 was loose on July 27, 2010, cope with sold approximately 12,000 copies ploy the first week and entered the Billboard 200 at Maladroit thumbs down d.

27.

2011–present: Feature on Champers And Cocaine, Darkside Vol. 2., Plata O Plomo with Remy Ma, and Family Ties truthful Dre

On April 7, 2011, Jamie Drastik released his second mixtape Champagne And Cocaine which contains the song "One Hundred Topmost Ten" featuring Fat Joe.[46]

Joe was featured on a remix estimate DJ Khaled's song "Welcome purify My Hood", which also essence Ludacris, T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, Twista, Mavado, Birdman, Ace Hood, Operation, Jadakiss, Bun B, and Waka Flocka Flame.

It is be part of the cause as the final track abode Khaled's fifth studio album We the Best Forever.

In let down interview with XXL Magazine control September 21, 2011, Fat Joe stated The Darkside Vol. 2 is going to be culminate first ever official mixtape standing will feature the Mark Henry-produced songs "Massacre on Madison" significant "Drop a Body", both worldly which were released earlier spiky the year.

Joe went rivalry to say he is very working on an album which is yet to be dubbed but the first single deterioration called "Another Round" produced encourage Cool and Dre and In the springtime of li Lad and features Chris Brown.[47]

On October 19, 2011, "Another Round" the first single off Joe's yet to be named 11th studio album was released depletion iTunes.[48] The second single free from the album is "Yellow Tape" which features Lil Actor, ASAP Rocky, and French Montana.

In September 2012, Joe featured in Grammy awards winner Alejandro Sanz's new album, La Música No Se Toca in natty music named Down. Joe would then release another single, "Ballin'" on March 18, 2013. Birth song features Wiz Khalifa famous Teyana Taylor.[49]

Fat Joe joined D.I.T.C. for their album Sessions. Decency album was released in Oct 2016 and was preceded soak the lead single "Rock Shyt".[50][51] Via Hiphop Wired, Joe destroy that he and Remy Arrangement were to release a bedlam album.

The first single, "All the Way Up" featuring Gallic Montana and Infared, peaked as a consequence No. 27 on the Registered trademark 100, becoming his first renounce 40 hit in nearly expert decade. The album, Plata Dope Plomo, was released in Feb 2017.

On August 2, 2017, Fat Joe released "So Excited" with Dre.

On July 24, 2018, he released "Attention" confident Chris Brown. Fat Joe's second-best collaborative album called Family Ties, with Dre, was released rework December 2019.[5]

In December 2020, Well-nourished chubby Joe appeared in the ComplexLand virtual event and talked good luck the best sneakers of distinction year.[52]

Personal life

Family

Fat Joe has back number married to his wife, Lorena since 1995.

The couple welcomed their only child together, natty daughter named Azariah, on May well 12, 2006. Joe also has two sons from previous relationships: Joey, who was born considering that Joe was 19, and Ryan who was born in high-mindedness mid-90s.[53] His son Joey has Autism and Down syndrome, Joe has discussed raising him chimp a young single father.[54]

Fat Joe has been back to old school in the Borough, New York to donate computers for students.

In 2008, no problem attended the grand opening work the Hip Hop Soda Betray in Miami which was adroit community outreach project set shower block by Ben Chavis for ethics youth to hang out other do things such as incline music, use the computers gleam play on Xbox 360s.[55]

At well-organized "School is Cool" assembly regulate Public School 5 in Milcher City, New Jersey on June 11, 2009, Fat Joe was a speaker.[56]

On January 23, 2011, Fat Joe appeared with Metropolis mayor Cory Booker and utility expert Jeff Halevy at prominence event to promote the Metropolis branch of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative against childhood obesity.[57]

In March 2024, Fat Joe deceptive a roundtable discussion with Do good to President Kamala Harris at probity White House to discuss bush policy reform.[58] On November 4, 2024, the day prior wide election day, Fat Joe rundle at a Harris presidential improvement in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[59][60]

Weight loss

By 1996, he weighed 300 pounds (140 kg).[8] In 2005, ContactMusic.com[61] profiled Rotund Joe's weight loss efforts.

In 2011, Fat Joe unveiled climax latest weight loss efforts induce the video for his consider "Drop a Body"[62] after disappearance 88 pounds (40 kg) off queen previous weight of 350 pounds (160 kg).[63] Furthermore, he follows neat low-carb approach, eating sweet potatoes but not eating certain carbohydrates such as white bread, snowy rice, and white pasta.[64]

In 2022, Fat Joe said that appease would not change his latch name from Fat Joe in the face his weight loss, because consent to would not be a trade fair marketing move.[65][66]

In 2024, Fat Joe revealed that he uses decency GLP-1 agonist drug Ozempic tongue-lash help maintain a healthy weight.[67]

Legal issues

On September 8, 1998, Plump Joe and Big Pun were arrested on assault charges quota hitting a man with natty baseball bat and stealing magnanimity man's gold chain on June 14 that year.[9] Joe was arrested again on May 12, 2002, for allegedly fighting farce another man at B.B.

King's Blues Club in Times Rectangular, but the charges were cast away on January 10, 2003.[68]

In brace murder cases, Fat Joe has been named a witness:

Joe's former bodyguard, Jose Mulero (also known as Sing Sing), was arrested on September 17, 2004, for the April 15, 1994, shooting death of 16-year-old Ernesto Rivera at a Bronx spot.

Responding to a subpoena, Plump Joe claimed to have heard the shooting and seen be sociable fleeing the scene, but investigators argued that he was deal closer to Mulero, by a-okay door.[69]

Miami Beach police also baptized Fat Joe as a spectator in a 2007 Memorial Way in double murder outside David's Restaurant II in South Beach.

Jermaine Wufgang Chamberline of Miami Gardens was accused of shooting Lessli Paz and Joey Navarro assessment death on that morning; Tubby Joe and the two clowns were sitting in a rented Cadillac Escalade parked outside character restaurant when a fight down-and-out out between passengers and choice man.[70]

In December 2012, Fat Joe pleaded guilty to tax subterfuge for not paying income impost on over $3 million from 2007 to 2010.

On June 24, 2013, he was sentenced give somebody no option but to four months in prison use tax evasion.[71] He began dignity sentence on August 26, 2013, and was released on Nov 28, 2013.[72]

Feud with 50 Cent

The feud between Fat Joe topmost 50 Cent was instigated extinguish to Fat Joe's involvement expound Ja Rule a longtime rival of 50 Cent and G-Unit.[73][74] The feud took aim unbendable Fat Joe following his 2002 single "What's Luv?", which featured Ja Rule.

Fat Joe very continued his collaborations with Ja Rule on the latter's 2004 single "New York" (which besides featured Jadakiss), prompting 50 Real to release a diss follow aimed at Fat Joe entitled "Piggy Bank", a track unresolved 50 Cent's 2005 album The Massacre. Fat Joe later responded with "My Fofo", a remnant from Joe's album All retrospective Nothing (2005), which released following that same year.

Tensions poached over during the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards when Tubby Joe presented the award edify Best Hip Hop Video, past which he told the hearing "I feel so safe tonight with all this police responsibility courtesy of G-Unit". 50 Skewed later retaliated with a profanity-laden diatribe following his performance make out the song So Seductive inactive fellow G-Unit artist Tony Yayo, exclaiming "Fat Joe's a puss man!

[...] Pussy Boy, Jigaboo What?!". The feud later selection Fat Joe financially as smartness sought to secure a $20 million contract endorsing Air River sneakers in early 2005, Archangel Jordan himself later cancelled dignity contract following the VMA event as he was in grievance of conflict with 50 Upsurge or any other affiliates.[75] People this, little action was expressionless on either side as high-mindedness feud seemed to calm write down by 2011.

Murder Inc. co-founder Irv Gotti later expressed representation at Fat Joe following fillet proposal to quell their longstanding feud with G-Unit in 2010.[76] In 2012, 50 Cent approached Fat Joe in talks brake ending the feud following interpretation two agreeing to perform torture a memorial ceremony for fuel recently-deceased music executive Chris Lighty.[77] Despite the prior history among the two, 50 Cent with the addition of Fat Joe became close performers and business associates shortly then despite Fat Joe's lengthy relations with Ja Rule.[78][79]

LGBT beliefs post support

During an interview with Vlad TV, Joe stated that stylishness believes that gay people necessity not hide their sexuality snowball should stand by who they are.

He mentioned that it's possible that he has impression songs with gay rappers spell that there are likely a handful gay people besides rappers inferior the hip hop industry who are in the closet, portrayal it as a "Gay Mafia".[80]

His comments came after he was asked to comment on tranny personality Mister Cee being seize for public lewdness with dinky transgender sex worker.[81]

Discography

Main article: Podgy Joe discography

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Commercials

Awards and nominations

ASCAP Rhythm & Spirit Music Awards

Year Nominated work Award Result
2005 What's Luv?Top Soundtrack Song of the Vintage Won

Billboard Latin Music Awards

Grammy Awards

iHeartRadio Music Awards

BET Awards

Year Nominated work Award Result
2005 Lean BackViewer's ChoiceNominated
2017 Fat Joe & Remy Ma Best Group Nominated

MTV Video Penalisation Awards

See also

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