Fat Joe thinks 2024 may have been the worst year in Hip Hop history, but not necessarily because of the music.
Appearing on a new episode of Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast published on Tuesday (December 17), Joey Crack was asked about the recent drama between his longtime friend Remy Ma and her estranged husband Papoose.
For Joe, he’s adding their issues on to his long-running list of why 2024 has just not been great to be a public figure in Hip Hop.
“I woke up 2024 feeling like [God dammit!] It’s been a horrible year,” Joe said. “I was just having a heated discussion with my people [about this]. This might be the worst year ever in Hip Hop history type shit. This shit bad. All our legends, all our mentors getting scrutinized. This is the worst time to be a celebrity in the history of mankind. I’m not sure you guys wanna be celebrities.”
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He continued: “Like I got friends who are filthy rich that wanna be popping and wanna be a celebrity. I don’t think they want everybody in they shit like that. This shit crazy out here. This is nuts. The fucking world done changed on me. It’s fucking nuts out here. You can’t make it up!”
On the subject of Remy and Pap, Fat Joe expressed his disappointment at the couple’s public rift and explained why he feels he’s unable to broker a truce between them.
“It’s a hard situation,” said Joe, who is not only a close friend and collaborator of Remy’s but the godfather of her and Papoose’s six-year-old daughter. “I don’t like none of that shit. What I can’t do is stop it. They won’t listen to me.”
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He added: “It’s a different type of thing when you got a husband […] Nobody comes to my house and tells my wife shit. This is your husband. I can’t get in the middle of that, that’s y’all […] I wish this didn’t happen.”
The Bronx native also revealed that the night before Remy and Papoose’s social media spat, his former Terror Squad cohort “treated 10 grown men” (including himself) to dinner at a restaurant in New York City.
“I woke up in the morning and my phone was going crazy and they were like, ‘Yo! What’s going on?’ And I’m like, ‘What the fuck?’” he recalled.
After speculation arose that Papoose was part of the group that went to dinner with Remy Ma, which would suggest that the couple’s problems aren’t as serious as they seem, the “Alphabetical Slaughter” rapper set the record straight.
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Responding to Fat Joe’s latter comments, he wrote on his Instagram Stories: “Peace to my brother @fatjoe I think y’all misunderstood his interview. I was not at @brooklynchophouse with them. I do spend thousands of dollars there regularly. I love that place!”
