Big Pun’s widow, Liza Rios, has filed a lawsuit against Fat Joe, asking for more than a million dollars, according to TMZ.
In the lawsuit, Rios says she and Fat Joe had a deal to split money made by Big Pun following the rapper’s passing in 2000. Despite the deal, Rios says she hasn’t received any money since 2005.
This is not the first time Rios has publicly spoken about what she feels is owed to her family. In 2008, Rios said “I don’t want Joe to take care of me, I just want what’s due to Pun.”
In 2009, Rios spoke with HipHopDX about how she felt the money was being mishandled.
“I don’t know who gets the money,” Rios said at the time. “I know the kids don’t get anything. Pun doesn’t get paid. And had he been alive, it would not have been happening this way. But, people took advantage of the situation.”
At the time, she also said she didn’t put all the blame on Joe.
“I don’t put 100 percent blame on Joe,” she said. “I put a lot of blame on Pun. He should’ve been smarter. He should’ve been wise with the business. And he wasn’t. He swore that these people were gonna take care of me, that I was T.S., Terror Squad. Before he passed, I didn’t believe him. I stressed him like, ‘Make sure your affairs are in order…’ I didn’t wanna be bothered with him passing on and everybody now is stressing over the money. I just wanted to be left alone with my kids.”
Big Pun released his debut album, Capital Punishment, via Loud Records in 1998. Two years later, in April 2000, Yeeeah Baby, Pun’s second and final official album was released.
In 2001, Endangered Species, a posthumous Pun compilation project was released by Loud Records, an effort that featured Ashanti, Noreaga and Fat Joe.
Big Pun passed in February 2000. He had an enlarged heart and weighed almost 700 pounds at the time of his death, according to MTV. He was 28.
I still can’t figure out how a 700lbs dude was able to spit some of those bars without passing the fuck out.
He was 700 pounds when he passed away. He was a good 200-250 pounds lighter when his first album came out. Something like that. Near the end of his life, you could hear him struggling to get that breathe control during his raps
Dude literally ate himself to death.
A lot of the recordings were punched in with multiple takes, he couldnt perform live using the same breathe control.
That’s right, he spit those bars when he was only 500 pounds lol
^^ “Only”??? LMAOOOOO
If there is no written contract then there is no deal
So, you are saying she should get 100%? I think Joe is the one who needs some kind of solid deal in place to be able to profit at all off another dude’s work. Otherwise he is stealing from Pun’s estate/heirs. When you die, that doesn’t give free reign to companies to exploit your work as they see fit. Especially if you leave a wife and kids behind.
lmao shoulda saved that money you spent on a lawyer
Hop in your Hummer, the Punisher’s ready; meet me at Vito’s
with Noodles, we’ll do this dude while he’s slurping spaghetti
fuck the police I squeeze first, make ’em eat dirt, take ’em feet first to the morgue, then launch ’em into deep earth
that guy was a major scumbag. he beat his kids and wife on the regular
ANDRES RETARDIO SUCKS A MEAN ASS DICK MAN
Rob Pun without a gun, snatch his dough & run
This nigga 500 pounds, how he gone catch me son?
Twins & Still Not A Player were great songs. I remember my aunt stealing my big pun cd SMFH.
“That’s my wife, I paid for them tittys… Get ya own!”
Damn, he was so fat. So disgusting, just imagine those smelly sweat filled rolls of fat flab when he’s performing a concert.
Faggot
What’s wrong, Anon? Did I hurt your feelings because you’re disgustingly obese as well. Awww, that’s too bad, fatass lol.
Anon is right u a fag, lol.
1st off mocking the dead like a coward.
2nd doing it from the safety of behind your keyboard like a bitch, LMAO.
I can just picture what a pussy u is, smh. You jus always gonna hate on the Alpha males cus u a bitch.
Lil bitch say that shit to pun and watch him pistol whip your bitch ass!!
Pun was an alpha male to you, faggot?! Wow, lol. That says more about you than me. At least now I know where you stand, loser.
Alpha males eat so they can’t breathe lol. A fuckin alpha male!!! Lol!
This fool put this post up knowing people would respond just to argue back at them….lol
Disgusted is a bitch ass faggot who probably lives in a sheltered community with his two dads.
I don’t she will win, I don’t think Joe was running the label at the time and I believe he was mostly a manager plus he was a artist himself.
familiy is hungry, so they need dat cash
that picture is too funny. must have been hard not to bust out laughing when Pun walked into the room lookin like that
Not with all those damn goon and gun stories….I’m pretty sure their were niggas like you who got they ass beat plenty of times though.
Bitch, get a damn job.
is this the wifey his pistol whipped?
I mean, get a job, bitch. That’s the problem with these rap wives. They become accostumed to that life I guess so she can’t accept that you need to go out there and get your own money now
Stop trying eat off other niggas. Fat Joe ain’t even popping like that.
I remember Fat Joe saying something among the lines of him being mad at her because she came out talkin all this shit about Pun abusing her. I think she went on a talk show or did an interview.
Joe basically said “You want me to get you money from Big Pun projects, but how am I suppose to do that when you’re going everywhere talkin about how abusive he was?” Basically saying she was fuckin up album sales by doin that.
She had that “Still Not a Player” documentary done and she made his abusing her the main focus of the movie.
prolly does owe her sum bread but I doubt pun’s catalogue makes too much most the deals in the 90’s were pretty much robbery