History
Fallowing Joe's rap partner, a likewise big, Puerto Rican, Bronx-depending rapper, Big Pun, broke into a mainstream sustaining his duet by having 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 follow suit. His 1998 lone, "Bet Ya Man Can't", which featured Large Pun too when more members of their Terror Squad clique, such as Cuban Link and Triple Seis, was a little hit. Shortly prior to Large Pun's demise, Paronomasithe & Joe got a hit by having Jennifer Lopez on a track from either her 1st album, On the 6, called "Feelin' So Good".

By owning 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 went on to become one of 2002's biggest pop hits.

Around late 2002, Joe freed a album Loyalty & got two or three of minor hits using "Crush Tonite" (featuring Ginuwine) and "All I Need". A rapper has appeared around many films, including a 2002 film Empire with John Leguizamo and Peter Sarsgaard.

Fat Joe is too the member of Terror Squad, which freed their foremost, self-titled, album in September 21 1999. Fallowing many roll changes (including original members Triple Seis's departure & Cuban Hyperlink's expulsion), a camp freed another album, True Story, inside July 2004, by having a summertime hit "Lean Back", later on remixed by Lil' Jon, with the recently verse from either Fat Joe, & featuring Eminem, Ma$e, and Lil' Jon.

Within September 2004, a previous bodyguard for Fat Joe was arrested & charged using the 1994 slaying which the rapper experienced allegedly found. Based on data from a Future York Days, Jose Mulero, thirty-eight, was charged using executiin, tampering by having grounds to believe, & weapons charges, when existence accused of shooting Ernesto Rivera, 16, on April 15 1994. Fat Joe was investigated for ties to the shooting, however at length cooperated sustaining the authorities, which alienated several of his fans world health organization believed that Joe got be a police force informant.

Inside late 2004, Fat Joe scored a second radio hit sustaining his verse in Ja Rule's "New York", too featuring Jadakiss & the hook taken from either KRS-A single's "100 Guns". This, even so, led to awkwardness fallowing 50 Cent decided that all host world health organization collaborated using his nemesis, Ja Rule, were setting themselves against him.

Fat Joe's fresh solo album, Completely or even Nothing, originally scheduled to exist as freed around Spring 2005, was been pushed back many days (supposedly due to sample clearances, though besides perchance by Interscope executives concerned within non with Joe's album compete by owning 50 Cent's release), however was freed around July 2005. A foremost individual, "So Much More", was freed to radio & cd rotation. A streaming features appearances by DJ Kay Slay, who has too known as himself a "black Fat Joe". A videos's 2nd half likewise includes the part of the song "The Incredible", too from either Everthing or even Nothing. A 2nd individual, "Get It Poppin'", features Nelly of the St. Lunatics, and is also in radio and video rotation (it was the theme song for WWE 2005 SummerSlam).

Conflict with 50 Cent
50 Cent attacked Fat Joe within his 2005 song "Piggy Bank", from either A Mass murder, because of Joe's ties sustaining his rival Ja Rule (specifically, his collaboratiin on Ja Rule's big recent hit, "New York", from either R.U.L.E.), saying "That fat nigga thought 'Lean Back' was 'In the Club'/my shit sold 11 mil, his shit was a dud". When the song take at Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Nas, Kelis, & Ja Rule, it was typically think of a lukewarm track & a publicity stunt, coupled sustaining his recent expulsion of The Game from 50's G-Unit camp.

Fat Joe went in record when existence confused by Fifty's antagonism towards him, however likewise stated that he wouldn't have by lazily when existence slandered; he too suggested that he & 50 Cent meet within Just released York & have a fisticuffs. Virtually all interestingly, he attacked L's street cred, claiming that Curtis Jackson experienced never appeared "In da Club", juxtaposed by having Fat Joe's easily-known record of survive performances, & offered of these million dollars to anybody world health organization would are forward using the picture of 50 Cent within the club. There are no tries stand been publicly processed towards ingesting a $1,000,000 prize. Inside times of Piggybank leaking, a diss song experienced appeared low, the hook existence sung to the tune of The Flintstones's theme song. Original reports were confused when to the title of the track (mp3 versions were diversely highborn "Fake Gangsta", "Fuck 50", & only "Fat Joe 50 Dis track"), however it today appears that it is known as "My Fo Fo" (on to the .44 caliber handgun), and will appear on All or Nothing.

Fat Joe has stated that, fallowing releasing this a single song, he have had finished discussing a issue of 50 Cent's disagreement by owning him. At a prevent of Can 2005 this seemed to use been confessedly.

2005 MTV Video Music Awards and 50 Cent
Possibly though items cooled down, at the 2005 MTV Videos Music Awards, Fat Joe mass produced a derogatory comment astir shortly prior to presenting an award to Missy Elliot, stating: "I'd like to tell the people home I feel so safe tonight with all this police protection courtesy of G-Unit..." 50 Cent tried for on the stage to look at Fat Joe, however was stopped by security. When he mass produced these comments, Fat Joe was kicked away from A VMAs. After 50 Cent down the road mass produced derogatory remarks all about Fat Joe in the period of his performance, Joe wasn't there to view it personally.

Discography
Albums
Represent, 1993 ''Jealous One's Envy, 1995 #71 US Don Cartagena, 1998 #7 US (gold) Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.), 2001 #21 US (platinum), #19 UK Loyalty, 2002 #31 US All or Nothing'', 2005 #6 US, #172 UK

Singles
2000 "Feelin' So Good" (Jennifer Lopez featuring Big Pun & Fat Joe) #51 US, #7 UK 2001 "We Thuggin'" (featuring R. Kelly) #15 US 2002 "What's Luv" (featuring Ashanti) #2 US, #4 UK 2002 "Crush Tonight" (featuring Ginuwine) #77 US 2003 "All I Need" (featuring Tony Sunshine & Armageddon) #86 US 2003 "I Want You" (Thalia featuring Fat Joe) #22 US 2004 "Lean Back" (Terror Squad featuring Fat Joe and Remy Ma) #1 US, #24 UK 2004 "New York" (Ja Rule featuring Fat Joe & Jadakiss) #27 US 2005 "Hold You Down" (Jennifer Lopez featuring Fat Joe) #64 US, #6 UK 2005 "So Much More" #81 US 2005 "Get It Poppin'" (featuring Nelly) #9 US, #34 UK 2005 "I Don't Care" (Ricky Martin featuring Fat Joe and Amerie) #88 US