Fat Joe On Rap’s Biggest Misconceptions, “Odds Of Becoming Successful Are 1 In 10 Million”

Written By S. Samuel

Terror Squad rapper Fat Joe recently talked about the biggest misconceptions people have about the rap game and explained why success is harder to achieve than it looks.

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Joe discussed the struggles he goes through as a rap artist.

“I would tell [my daughter] the business is rough and not as easy as you think,” Joe said in an interview. “The biggest misconception kids have is that you wake up every morning drinking [champagne] with three girls in your bed and that you drive Phantom drops all day. They don’t realize the odds of you becoming a successful artist are like one in every 10 million. They don’t understand the struggle of what we go through. I don’t even have time [for other things]…This is my job, and everybody wants to be a rapper because they think it’s the easiest thing to be. They think, ‘I don’t have to hammer nails, lift concrete or drive a bus’ but they don’t realize it’s a grind and struggle to be successful in this game.” (URB Life)

The rapper’s financial records leaked online earlier this month and showed him owing over $139,000 to the government.

When rapper Fat Joe listed his $2 million Florida mansion for sale recently, the 39-year-old denied speculation the sale was spurred by financial woes. Yet he does have money problems, according to public records that reveal a recent $71,611default judgment in a lawsuit filed by his bank and more than $139,000 in delinquent state and federal taxes since 2008. The state of New Jersey filed a $2,200 tax lien against Fat Joe and his Terror Squad Productions Inc. on March 18 in New Jersey State Superior Court. The IRS filed a $31,987 tax lien against Fat Joe on Feb. 2 with the Mercer County (N.J.) Clerk. The state of New Jersey filed a $105,000 tax lien against Fat Joe and Terror Squad on Aug. 14, 2008, in New Jersey State Superior Court. (Detroit News)

His latest album also suffered low sales with its first-week in stores last fall.

Terror Squad leader Fat Joe’s Jealous Ones Still Envy Part II got off to a rocky start landing at No. 73 this week. With seven days to his name, Joey Crack’s latest effort has sold 8,300 copies. (SOHH Sales Wrap)

However, Joe is currently working on a new project which he claims is a rap classic.

“I feel like [The Darkside Volume 1] is a hip-hop classic. From Premier to Just Blaze, to Cool & Dre, to Street Runner, Infamous, Scoop Deville, Scram Jones…What I wanna know is, who does ten albums, and on the tenth album, it’s better than all the other ones. I don’t use the word classic lightly. I never had a classic. Try that one out. Its going down my n*ggas, its going down!” (All Hip Hop)

The Darkside Volume 1 is scheduled to drop July 2010.

Check out some recent Fat Joe footage down below:

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Written by S. Samuel

Steven Samuel is the co-founder of SOHH.com.

73 Comments

  1. just lost points with me for that interview gangster shit…. where your chain at pimpin? stfu and do something, or just stfu

    • How about you STFU! Another day & you’re implying the same stupid shit bc you’re a simpleton. He lost points with u from yesterday so now he’s losing more?? Go suck a dick already. His chain is gone just like yours would be had 5 people jumped you! You Fluffer!

    • you homoerotic dick chomper….. stop chasing me around SOHH and defending MMG like its your baby’s moms that went shopping with 50. Hayzoos fucking Christo wtf its like this nigga got a part-time job searching for my posts just to check and see if i could might be possibly badmouthing any MMG artist.

      i like gunplay, i think the niggas hilarious… but to go on record and say something gonna happen, that niggas could get shot etc etc he lost points with me in my book. somethings if you plan on really doing you dont talk about.

    • LOL@this village idiot. This is a website so go suck a dick about anyone following your bitch ass around Fluffer. I read the same articles you read so when i saw your bitch ass response…i replied and I will keep replying you little bitch.
      You running around hating on MMG like you get paid for it. Fluffer go suck one of them dicks already…..since when did hating become cool? you know when? When they made laptops and conputers affordable for broke pieces of shit like you. I’m going to keep chin checking your ass all day until you fly right.

    • you’re repetitive and annoying, knock it off… chin checking on a website? really? you’ve reach a whole new level of faggotry you delusional grown ass man groupie

    • I’m repititve? Coming from the King of Saying the same shit village. LOL@the fucking irony. I got your bitch ass panties in a bunch. Go play in traffic with a blindfold on.

    • LOL @ You saying you are “chin checking” someone online!! lol. youre lame as fuck. get the fuck out in the real world, mr online chin checker……………….

    • I like that name….call me that shit again. I dig it my son. & I can’t get out in the real world with my dick all in your mouth. Please spit my shit out, wipe my pubics from your face & tell your bitch to come here.

    • Ain’t feelin me?? LOLOL….& I’m delusional according to you. Get some friends you Fluffer bc I can care less about who feels me on the internet.

  2. this niigga need to seriously consider changing his name… its Like a dude calling himself G-5 and takes the bus to get around…..

  3. You sure you wanna go to war with someone who could pay your whole hood to murk you and not even be financially or mentally stressed about it? Be my guest. smh

    • Wow! Good point I never really thought of it like that. Its interesting to see this dude wanting to pick a fight with someone who professionally trains with Mayweather, actually has an album catalog and is worth more than he could even imagine. SMH

    • True. But if that gon’ happen Gunplay will become a martyr. Besides nobody is willing to take that risk. Look at Preme. Doing now life in jail for exactly the same thing.

    • I highly doubt anyone would or will look at dude as anything more than someone who rode his homies coattails and was a wannabe ODB.

    • He can’t buy Gunplay’s whole hood. You got my miami niggas fucked up…..we stand for more than Money.

    • Please. Gunplay is reckless. Make that nigga look like he O.D.ed and it’s a wrap.

    • Really? No offense to Miami but most of y’all dickride Rick ROss too much. Adopted Lil Wayne and Drake. Even Uncle Luke said that those cats who come to Miami should spend their money more on the society there. So it’s not really more than money.

      However I do respect Wicklow Entertainment for doing their own thing and making fun of Rick Ross. Those imitations are hilarious.

    • professional fighting don’t mean shit in a street fight!! something tells me gunplay fight dirty …everything else I agree on somewhat but I done seen some big niggas beat down with a crowbar

    • Man WTF areyou talking about. How does this even make any sense whatsoever? Ross is from Miami and I don’t know of any south florida person let alone Miami person claiming they adopted Wayne and Drake. & every Miami person don’t ride with Ross….some don’t like him just like u don’t. That goes with the territory.

    • Clo Fresh you still trading Penny Stocks? How can you be so much in love with Rick Ross man? Are you hoping one day he fucks you in the ass? Go get a life bruh. This nigga Ross made more money than FiF on Forbes last year after FiF took pics with Ross baby mama and kids, after all the CO shit and Ross has the hottest group and he’s the hottest rapper. Is that why u mad Clo Fresh?

  4. How many L’s is this guy gonna take? Last time he was talkin crazy about 50 in video his ass was knocked out in that same video 2 hours later. Leave that shit alone.

    • Just look up Gunplay knocked out. It might be a little tougher to find because he’s a repeat victim. Sift through all the footage of him eating fence and tossed like a midget and you’ll see his ass talkin all that gangsta shit right before they have to peel his ass off the street like a cartoon.

    • you know that was a video cut and pasted together right? 50 had nothing to do with that fight.

  5. Nah man I can’t even be mad at Gunplay for talking shit.
    Fact is he survived an altercation with 50 & Co without being K.O.

    50 always be saying he’ll hurt niggaz when getting out of line but Gunplay clearly got out of line and 50 was right there. I remember 50 on a phone fronting at dude from WWSH saying he would black his eye but he let Gunplay walk.

    I’m a 50 fan but sorry Gunplay is the winner in this battle.

    • i aint never seen a winner get lumped up and his chain taken…. sorry dude but you’re crazy

    • This ain’t 2003 anymore. Having taken your chain away is not career ending anymore. Besides who wants his chain?

    • i didn’t say it was a career ender, i just said that it clearly designates you as NOT BEING A WINNER.

    • you sound stupid you reallly expect 50 cent that worth hundreds of milllions to fight this guy that aint even worth much??? thats not being soft thats being smart 50 is not stupid

    • See there you have it. All men are equal. Now you wanna rank a dude higher because of his bank account.
      It’s people like you who care about artists who are balling instead of artists who have a message in their music. Not that Gunplay has but money shouldn’t be used as an excuse.

    • man this nigga rick ross rolled up on kreyshawn lil white girl ass with a bunch of security cmon with that mannnnnnn. are you serious these niggas crying about getting jumped? a 600 lb former correctional officer rolls up with goons for a 5’2″ 95lb crackhead cracker bitch and they’re crying about a grown ass man getting caught out there?? i aint never seen no one from MMG confront anyone 1 on 1 so why would they expect anything less???!? nigga stopppp it just stoppppp it

    • Look I don’t like Rick Ross. Dude was never street and can’t do good in my eyes. But the point I am trying to make is that Gunplay got away real good. Too good.

    • Gunplay said it was 9 against one..So what is it? Is this one of those stories that gets worse everytime he tells it?
      Next year he’s going to say he got jumped by 100 ninjas and shit and he fought them off like Bruce Lee..lol

    • you dont get what im saying if your worth hundreds of millions would risk goin to jail for fighting a nigga who aint even worth half of what you have?? that make no sense you worried about the wrong thing if i was worth thatt much im not fighting no lil nigga when my niggas can handle it 50 has more to lose than gunplay gunplay dont give a shit about his future 50 is a boss with a kid and a bunch of business shit goin on

    • Have the BET Awards already been aired on cable or what??? I want to watch the crappy awards.

    • I get what you are saying. But since it were people from 50’s camp people gon’ look at 50. Watch his next interview they will ask him questions about it. Take the Yayo situation with Henchmen’s kid. 50 wasn’t even their but they held him responsible. They were even protesting in front of his office.
      Even if you have millions of dollars and let people handle your business you still responsible.

  6. Be careful crack head , your words can be used against you …..this is 2012 not 1990

  7. smh at this senseless violence..i highly doubt 50 cent was involved with this..you guys gotta remember that ur dealing with a coke head here who was probably popping off at some random people and assume it was 50 cent crew

  8. Ignorant people!!! When do GANGSTAS state what they are going to do on the radio . EPIC FAIL!!!

    In the words of the Great Hov:
    u should know if u gon’ do somethin’
    and u go to radio
    we all know YOU FRONTIN’
    THEY SHOOTIN!
    nobody dying
    somebody better put SOMEbody body
    on SOMEbody iron
    SOMEtime soon
    or somebody lyin’
    i ain’t buying that !! y’all shovelin’
    i ain’t duckin’ for nothin’ cousin
    i’m too tall to act small you liars…

  9. 50 not scrapping with nobody…he not trying to end up in court on chargese or worst..getting sued…Fif got more to lose than Gunplay….plus AFTER THIS DRY SNITCHING GUN JUST DID FIF DEFINITELY CANT TOUCH HIM

  10. the only other thoughts i have on this is that i like the fact that 50 is like, no game, no buck, no banks, no yayo, no mayweather?? no problem! i’m still goin in. nigga IS g-unit all by hisself

  11. Gunplay is taking himself down a very nasty path, word to the wise would be to let it go son.

  12. money has nothing to do with this stupid shit….these dudes are just what the doctor ordered for white america. put these clowns together and somebody will fight…get shot…and/or go to jail. All these clowns talk shit cause they have about 1200 pounds of muscle around them. So who is really gangsta in all this….these are not street niggas anymore, these are entertainers and actors. They watch movies and read books on the real mob and try to immulate what they see. I’m disappointed in ross…jeezy…and b.e.t..They knew the cops was gonna break this shit up, thats why they acted like they was about that business…lmao. And wanted to be good actors for the cameras…..so lets strike a pose….FUCKIN BITCHES!!! I’m abou to go and listen to some jayz…

  13. @TeeDraper:disqus you are just a internet OG shut the fuck up. see and hearing about bad people don’t make you one

  14. Gunplay gets back at a guy who was pepper sprayed then he himself got pepper sprayed and he’s bragging about and saying he’ll kill welp, it’s par for that camp since his boss at the most moved some dimes,but tell the world it was ki’s yell™

  15. these rap niggas just dont get it, the rich business niggas do tho. Money is the only thing people are loyal too. You can talk that gun talk all day. If a nigga with money wants you dead though aint really much you can do about it. 50 wasnt hiding behind guards, he just doesnt have to get his hands dirty, he got too much money for that. If you can afford a lawyer you dont not call him wit you get into a jam just to show how hard you are, thats what the nigga there for so use him. if 50 wanted gunplay touched it would be done and nobody would give a shit. If niggas should take any one thing from the 50 ross beef. Its that money hurt more than any diss song, example the video of Khaleds mom, 50 posing for pics with Ross baby mama, and his kid. Putting out his other baby moms sex tape, all around embarrasing the hell out of Ross. Imagine what hed do to gunplay if he wanted too. smh

  16. gun play thinks he can fuck with bmf and g unit at the same damn time? rap shit aside,behind the scenes you dont know what niggas do,if you tryna recoup or tour the mixtape imma book you for a show and get you there,you gon have to answer for ya words.you gotta come to ny,hit atl up,new orleans..smh

    • That’s exactly what E-40 did to Biggie Smalls during the East Coast West Coast beef!

    • Oh! Ain’t no niggas in Miami that have enough money to book a show and roll up on Jeezy or 50? Fuck outta here. Y’all niggas act like FiF and Jeezy the richest niggas in the rap game. Why didn’t fif kill Rick Ross? Why didn’t he kill Game? Niggas so fucking stupid.

  17. Knox explained that 50 Cent wasn’t even involved in the fight. He said that Gunplay was throwing 50’s name in there to get media attention.

  18. 50,baby,kanye,rick ross and all deez r jay z wanna be when sombody pick a fight wit jay everybody say jay aint gone do shit but since its fiddy yal use da money excuse

  19. This is nothing new. It’s the quickest way to rise to the top and get your name known: Start a beef with someone. Rappers have been doing it for years now. Excellent marketing on Gunplay’s side because before this, I had NEVER heard of him before.

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