Fat Joe Quotes

"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."

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

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

"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."

"It feels as if I never get my just due."

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

"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."

"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."

"Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary."

"The biggest killer of people is food."

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

"Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture."

"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."

"Puerto Rico is a powerful island."

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

"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."

"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."

"Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh."

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

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row."

"When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper."

"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 ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about."

"Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot."

"Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry."

"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."