Layzie denies Bone Thugs rejected Biggie’s collab request
Layzie Bone refutes rumors started by Fat Joe that Bone Thugs-n-Harmony once turned down Biggie’s collab because of his feud with 2Pac.
“Steve Lobel called me,” Layzie recently recalled on The Art of Dialogue podcast. “He said he talked to Puffy, and Biggie wanted to do a song with us.
“And we was like, hell, yeah. Right off the gate…Let me clear up that one rumor that said we turned down Biggie Smalls. Man, we had never turned down Biggie Smalls.”
Layzie added, “Fat Joe? He had a relationship with all of us, individually. That never happened on my watch, you know what I’m saying? No disrespect to Joe. I love Joe. When we first got into the game, Bone Thugs and Terror Squad and Big Pun ran so tight.”
Fat Joe shares a piece of advice to a vast number of aspiring rappers who are struggling to make ends meet. In a clip he posted online, Joe urged upcoming rappers to find themselves regular jobs as they “hope” to “make it” in music.
“If your man said he raps and he don’t have a deal. There’s a problem with that,” Joe said on Instagram live. “It’s called plan A, get a job. Plan B, hope you make it. This has never changed. Some guys be like, ‘I gotta get a regular job?’ Bro, you gotta get a job! If you got kids and you got this girl that got an apartment and y’all sexin’ it up every day, you got to pay some bills.”
Remy Ma announces all-female rap battle with 16 participants
Bronx rapper Remy Ma announces first ever all-female battle rap contest dubbed The Tournament. According to an announcement the Terror Squad rapper made on Instagram Sunday (October 9), 16 contestants will take part and the winner will walk away with $25k during the event that will stream on Chrome 23 website October 30.
“All-female, first-ever in battle rap history,” Remy revealed in the announcement video. “All bitches can rap. It’ll be three rounds. Every round is 90 seconds. So that’s a minute and a half with a max of two minutes.”
Remy held an inaugural rap competition in February on Chrome 23. The contest was hosted by her husband Papoose and fellow Terror Squad member Fat Joe.
“I want all the women that have ever put their blood, sweat and tears into this, that’s been doing this for years to get a chance to really make some decent money,” Remy previously said on why she started Chrome 23.
Fat Joe says Mike Tyson once had a crush on Remy Ma
Fat Joe recently linked up with Mike Tyson and Angie Martinez for an episode on Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson podcast where he recounted Tyson’s obsession with Remy Ma.
Joe recalled the retired boxing champion trying to compel Remy to sleep with him by offering her a Mercedes-Benz.
“Mike invites me to the house and he says bring Remy Ma with you,” Joe explained. “This is around ‘Lean Back’ or some shit like that. We go to the house. He opens the door butt naked … Mike opens the door ass naked. I’m like, what the fuck is up, bro?’”
“He takes me [on] a tour of the house, I’m not lying to you, every room I walked in, there was a chick in every room. In every fucking room … I’m like what the fuck, Iron Mike, this guy lives a fucking life.”
Tyson interrupted: “I said, ‘Joe, just leave Remy Ma.’ She was upstairs and I was blocking her. She was, ‘No, no.’” Joe continued: “He wanted to keep Remy Ma. He made her offers. He showed this convertible Benz new shit. He was like, ‘You can keep this, all you gotta do is spend one night.’
Joe continued, “She looked at me like, ‘Joe, if you don’t get me the fuck out this house.’ I was like, ‘Mike, we can’t do that. This is my sister’ … He offered her some fucking 500 Benz, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ Hey, yo. That was a great time, Mike [laughs].”
Fat Joe remembers Big L involving him in a disagreement with Mase
Fat Joe recently sat for an interview with Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’ podcast where he recalled an incident at New York venue The Tunnel that saw the late Big L hurt his friendship with Mase.
“One time I got set up. Rest in peace Big L, [he] comes up to me in The Tunnel and he’s like ‘Yo, Crack, come bring your n-ggas, I got some beef,” Joe recounted. “So we come — Big L’s our brother, you know Diggin’ in the Crates — and when I come up, it’s fucking Ma$e. He’s arguing with Ma$e, they from the same block!
Fat Joe On Big L Almost Involving Him In A Fight With Mase
“I’m like, ‘I was hanging out with Ma$e the night before at Puffy’s studio!’ Ma$e was looking at me like I was the greatest snake ever lived. He’s like, ‘For real?’ I’m sitting there and, you know, L is my crew so L was like, ‘We will fuck you up right now, we don’t give a fuck, it’s whatever.”
Joe went on to remember L asking him, “Right, Joe?” Before Joe nodded his head. “I don’t think Ma$e ever trusted me again in my life after that,” he added. “That shit was foul, man.”
New York rapper Fat Joe hopped on Instagram on August 28 to scorn his haters while addressing a controversial topic that both Blacks & Latinos started the Hip-Hop culture.
“I tell you I never really fuck with Twitter, but I go on there to see they always hating on me and shit,” he said. “Lately, they’ve been talking about, ‘Latinos wasn’t in rap.’ These guys are fucking delusional. We’re from the Bronx, New York. Shit happens. This is where Hip Hop started. It’s Latino and Black, half and half.
He added, “But they going at me ‘cause I’m like the only Spanish dude with a big voice. Like, ‘Fuck that. Latinos wasn’t there. You was invited. You are a specimen.’ I don’t know what the fuck is up with these people that don’t know their facts.”
I’m not here to sh*t on Fat Joe or tear down his legacy. But his rhetoric needs to be addressed and checked. If he avoids this conversation he will be destroying his own legacy. I’m also more surprised at the guys around him that aren’t saying anything. Silence means complicit.
Fat Joe originally went by the moniker Fat Joe Da Gangsta.
Before Joseph Antonio Cartagena was famously known as Fat Joe, he originally went by the moniker Fat Joe Da Gangsta.
Fat Joe was born and grew up in the Bronx and he started his musical career under the moniker Fat Joe Da Gangsta. He was part of the rap group D.I.T.C. and he released his debut studio album, Represent, on July 27, 1993 under his first rap name Fat Joe Da Gangsta and under Relative records. The album’s lead single “Flow Joe” peaked number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fat Joe dropped the ‘da Gangsta” part from his name before he released his second album Jealous One’s Envy.
Hip-Hop’s finest joined city officials in the South Bronx to officially begin construction on the first phase of Bronx Point, the permanent home of the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
On Thursday (May 20), hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash joined other legends like LL Cool J, Nas, Fat Joe, Lil Kim, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick, Michael Bivins (Bel Biv DeVoe) and EMPD to break ground on the site. During the special ceremony, Grandmaster Flash described how he felt about the plans for the long-awaited museum.
“I came up with a technique by placing my fingertips on the records,” Grandmaster Flash said according to WABC. “Here we are, almost 47 years later…Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you, this is a really special.”
Co-founded by Kurtis Blow, the UHHM has been in the making for the past decade. Bucano and his team of curators work to preserve the history of local and global Hip Hop music, dance, art, and culture to inspire, empower, and promote understanding. While its sole purpose has been to document hip hop history in its entirety, the UHHM also become a powerful movement in the community.
“It taught me more than schools taught me, believe it or not,” Nas said. “I’m proud to be here in the mecca of hip hop, the Bronx.”
The UHHM is part of a $349 million multiple-purpose project located minutes from the birthplace of hip hop. The 50,000 square-foot property along the Harlem River waterfront will offer 542 units of permanently affordable housing and 2.8 acres of public open space. Along with the museum, community and culture-centered programming will be offered like an early childhood space run by BronxWorks, and outdoor science programming run by the Billion Oyster Project.
“Hip hop is one of those things that really gave my life meaning,” LL Cool J said. “It made me feel like I really could do something with my life.”
Check out photos and video from the groundbreaking event below.
