'Did you ever have anybody try to kill you?' the Bronx Mc says of being counted out after weak album sales.
By Shaheem Reid
Fat Joe (file)
Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/ FilmMagic
Fat Joe is like the vampire Bill Compton on HBO's "True Blood" — crawling out of the dirt after being, in a sense, buried alive.
"They tried to disrespect the God, realest rapper ever," Joe said Monday when we joined him at Manhattan's Skyline Studios. The Bronx Mc was talking to a group of journalists and select DJs (Clark Kent, Bobby Trends, Mister Cee and others) assembled for a listening session of his new LP, The Darkside Vol. 1, due July 27.
"Did you ever have anybody try to kill you?" Joe asked, addressing Kent and Trends. "They tried to erase 15 years!"
After sales of his last album, 2009's Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.2), turned out to be meager at best,...
By Shaheem Reid
Fat Joe (file)
Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/ FilmMagic
Fat Joe is like the vampire Bill Compton on HBO's "True Blood" — crawling out of the dirt after being, in a sense, buried alive.
"They tried to disrespect the God, realest rapper ever," Joe said Monday when we joined him at Manhattan's Skyline Studios. The Bronx Mc was talking to a group of journalists and select DJs (Clark Kent, Bobby Trends, Mister Cee and others) assembled for a listening session of his new LP, The Darkside Vol. 1, due July 27.
"Did you ever have anybody try to kill you?" Joe asked, addressing Kent and Trends. "They tried to erase 15 years!"
After sales of his last album, 2009's Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.2), turned out to be meager at best,...
- 6/15/2010
- MTV Music News
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