Musician

I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

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.'

The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.

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

The biggest killer of people is food.

Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.

I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.

KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

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

I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

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

I was scared to fly for a long time.

I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

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

See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.

'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

MTV shows me love.