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Fat Joe is a Puerto Rican rapper from the Bronx, who was popular in the underground rap scene during the early and mid- 1990s. After Joe's rap partner, the similarly large, Puerto Rican, Bronx-based rapper, Big Pun, broke into the mainstream with his duet with the O'Jays, "I'm Not A Player" and its more popular remix, "Still Not A Player," featuring R&B singer Joe, Fat Joe began to make his move into the mainstream. His 1998 single, "Bet Ya Man Can't" which featured Big Pun, as well as other members of their entourage, such as Cuban Link and Triple Seis , was a small hit.Shortly before Big Pun's death, Pun and Joe had a hit with Jennifer Lopez on a track off of her debut album, On The 6 , called "Feelin' So Good".
With 2001's release of J.O.S.E. (Jealous Ones Still Envy) , Joe scored two back-to-back hits with "We Thuggin'," which featured R&B superstar R. Kelly singing the chorus and "What's Luv," which featured up-and-coming R&B/pop star Ashanti on its chorus, and would go on to become one of 2002's biggest pop hits.
In late 2002, Joe released the album "Loyalty" and had a couple of minor hits with "Crush Tonite" (featuring Ginuwine) and "All I Need".
Recently, Fat Joe has tried his hand at acting, appearing in the 2002 movie Empire with John LeguizamoJohn Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is a Colombian- Puerto Rican actor working in the US film industry. He was born in Bogota, Colombia. His father, Alberto Leguizamo was a Puerto Rican Realtor living in Colombia who meet and married a young Colombian gir and Peter SarsgaardPeter Sarsgaard (born March 7 1971) is an actor. He is sometimes credited as Peter Scarsgaard and is currently dating the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. Selected Filmography Garden State (2004) "Mark" Shattered Glass (2003) "Charles 'Chuck' Lane" Death of a D. He also appeared in Scary Movie 3Scary Movie 3 ( 2003) is an American comedy film directed by David Zucker and is a sequel to Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2''. The plot of the film intertwines parodies of several other films such as The Ring Signs 8 Mile and The Matrix''. The lead charact of 2003 as himself.
1 Discography
- Represent , 1993
- Jealous One's Envy , 1995
- Don Cartagena , 1998
- Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) , 2001
- Loyalty, 2002
2 See also
- List of famous Puerto Ricans
- Latin rapLatin rap is not a homogeneous musical style but rather a term that covers all rap by Latinos. The first bilingual (" Spanglish") rappers were a group from Bronx, New York by the name of Mean Machine. They put out the very first bilingual rap song in 1981
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