Fat Joe addressed critics who have said the Bronx-bred rapper can’t use the n-word.
The conversation occurred when Joe stopped by The Breakfast Club to discuss his new memoir The Book of Jose, where he clarified the comments he made against Irv Gotti after the producer and record exec spoke about Ashanti while on Drink Champs.
“He was there when my daughter was born, I love Irv Gotti,” Joe said at the 27-minute mark of the video above. “No matter how much I love a person I cannot sit there and watch this man disrespect my sister…I feel like a sucker if I don’t address it. Now, I’ve been so used to IG and cameras being in my face, was that the right platform? or maybe it was a private call? Don’t know, it’s done already. But Irv Gotti’s correct, I’m not his friend. I love him he’s my brother.”
Joe went on to say that because he made his comments online, Gotti’s haters were relentless in their responses. Charlamagne used this as a jumping-off point to discuss the criticism Joe has faced over the years regarding his use of the n-word.
“First of all my projects is 90%, I’ll give you 80% Black still,” Joe said. “My grandmother’s projects is 99.9% Black to be clear. So I’m Spanish, I knew I was Latino, but the whole time I thought I was Black anyway. So my mom lives there 40 years before I was born, in this project, and I’m born blonde hair green-eyes. This shit crazy, right? She brings me there, the first thing is they go, ‘Oh…
