Fats Joe — a.ok.a. Joey Crack, a.ok.a. Joey Crack The Don, a.ok.a. Don Cartagena, a.ok.a. Prepare dinner Coke Crack — constructed a profession and picture on his dextrous circulation and brutally robust lyrics. However hip-hop, as we’re reminded on this, its fiftieth anniversary, is an artwork type and Joey Crack was mendacity his crack off.
The 53-year-old rapper sat down with Gayle King and Charles Barkley on the premiere episode of their far-too-cheekily named present, King Charles, to debate the case towards Younger Thug, wherein his lyrics are getting used as proof towards him.
“I’ve been rapping professionally for 30 years — I’ve lied in virtually 95 % of my songs,” Fats Joe, né Joe Cartagena, mentioned. “I’m being sincere. I write like I really feel that day. I’m simply being artistic. You couldn’t construct a jail excessive sufficient for the lyrics I’ve mentioned on songs that are all unfaithful.”
He has some extent. Take as an illustration one in all Prepare dinner Coke Crack’s verses from the traditional “Twinz,” a mic-torching duet with the late, nice Huge Pun:
“We lock cities like rounds within the chamber / Boogie Down main like 9, I bust mine each time / Plus, I am the crime boss of New York /The place we taught to stroll the stroll, all my n—-s carry chalk / And stalk our prey like a predator / Whoever need it — go and get it, set it, child, and I’ma bury ya.”
As “the crime boss of New York” alone he can be going through a number of expenses, or on the very least, a place within the mayor’s workplace. Then there’s the origin of Fats Joe’s nickname — effectively, one in all his nicknames — as he just lately defined in a tweet.
“They name me Joey Crack ‘trigger the crack of my ass present each time I arise. Ladies in my hood gave me the title,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “It was by no means as a result of the drug crack[.] God is nice.”
No, Fats Joe emphasizes the delineation between Fats “I Am Crack” Joe and Joe “Household Man” Cartagena.
“What I’m is, I’m a household man, somebody who offers again to his neighborhood on a regular basis,” he mentioned on King Charles. “I opened companies in my neighborhood, so the music would by no means quantity to the precise individual Joseph Cartegena.”
Somebody really going through a number of expenses, Younger Thug has been in jail since Could 2022, accused of racketeering and gang conspiracy. On Nov. 9, an Atlanta decide dominated, in a controversial resolution, that the 32-year-old rapper’s lyrics might be used as proof in his trial.
“What’s much more horrible is the District Attorneys, they know these lyrics ain’t actual,” Fats Joe argued. “They know that’s creativity, but when it helps their case, they’ll use it to place these guys in jail.”
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