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All Quotes by author - Fat Joe

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything. "

" As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part. "

" Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one. "

" 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. "

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

" I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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