Musician

For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

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

We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.

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?

Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.

Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

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.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

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.

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

Donald Trump, you already know. We can't have that guy in office.

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.

After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

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.