Top 70 Fat Joe Quotes

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we’ve been influential in every aspect of life.

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

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.

When it’s all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

I ain’t here to tell nobody what’s right or what’s wrong.

I would love to coach. I’m not saying I’m qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.

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.

For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

I wish we had more diversity.

To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mister Cee’s a legend, man.

I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It’s always been my name and always will be.

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.

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.’

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.

Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

I’m trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

I’m a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

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 is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I’m independent. I’m very happy with that.

I always loved being fat, obviously. I’m Fat Joe.

It’s hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

I’m known to be hands on 100%. I don’t know any other way to be than a leader by example.

I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they’re trying to do and what they’re trying to accomplish.

J. R. Smith’s incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.

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.

If you gay, you gay. Like, that’s your preference, you know?

I don’t think the Republicans care much about minorities.

See, me, I don’t run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

I could battle rap forever, but it’s a joke to me.

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.

DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.

We’re in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we’re suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

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.

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?

I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, ‘How’s she losing it? What is she doing?’ But it’s all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.

There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.

What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

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.

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

I’m trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.

‘Envy’ was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

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.

I love Lil Wayne; that’s like my little brother. He’s just the coolest dude on Earth.

During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

MTV shows me love.

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.’

I grew up pretty much with nothing.

The ‘hood don’t really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.

This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

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.

I’m just a human being. I’m from the projects, too.

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.’

Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He’s so fun; people love him.

Mike Bibby’s my brother.

I make hits.

I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

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.

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.

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.

Never get involved with a business that you can’t really be hands-on – that if your employees quit, you can’t run yourself. If I can’t cut hair, why open a barbershop?

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.