Fat Joe

South Bronx native Fat Joe is one of the rap industry's first Latino superstars. During the '90s, he climbed to the top of the game one album at a time. Each one of the Puerto Rican-Cuban rapper's successive albums during that decade, including Jealous One's Envy (1995) and Don Cartagena (1998), did progressively better on the Billboard charts. Furthermore, he attained more clout by helping to break Big Pun ("Still Not a Player") in a major way, executive producing and appearing on the late rapper's own hit albums. Fat Joe continued to scale the charts in the 2000s, during which time he moved further into the pop market than ever before, earning Grammy nominations for a collaboration with Ashanti ("What's Luv?," 2001) and as a member of Terror Squad (the number one hit "Lean Back," 2004). Although Joe wasn't as prolific during his third decade of activity, he retained his pop appeal, especially through continued work beside fellow Terror Squad member Remy Ma, exemplified by "All the Way Up" (2016), yet another Grammy-nominated recording. He closed out the 2010s with Family Ties (2019), co-billed with Dre (of Cool & Dre), one of his many high-profile and long-term production associates (along with the likes of Diamond D, DJ Premier, and Scott Storch). In 2021, Fat Joe returned to the spotlight with "Sunshine (The Light)," a collaborative single with Amorphous and DJ Khaled.

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