Fat Joe made a claim during Rap City ’21 that DaBaby is the 2021 version of the late Tupac Shakur and social media went up in flames after the clip made its rounds. Fat Joe got wind of all the commotion and now he’s explaining what he meant by that wild take.
During an Instagram Live stream, Fat Joe made it clear he was not taking anything back or apologizing to anyone but said if there were an artist in mind who is like 2Pac, he knows who he’s choosing.
“But who’s the new 2Pac,” Fat Joe asked. “Don’t know but if I’m going to take a guess; by the way I knew Tupac Shakur in real life. Not as a mythical person. I knew the man in real life. He was the realest rapper ever. So now when I think Pac, not just musically or whatever the case may be, I’m thinking DaBaby a real one. Certified real one, whether you like him or you don’t like him or whatever, I believe he lives what he raps. And that’s very much like Tupac.”
Joey Crack went on to say no one, including DaBaby, will ever be 2Pac. He claimed he made that comparison because he was put “in the hot seat” and wanted to help “revive” Rap City. The viewers then got involved after Fat Joe asked who they think he should’ve picked as the current generation’s 2Pac.
Someone suggested J. Cole and that drew an interesting response from the Bronx legend who sarcastically whistled three times.
“Nobody is 2Pac,” Joe said before giving NBA Youngboy his props after seeing someone mentioned the Louisiana native after the Dreamville boss.
Fat Joe Calls DaBaby 'The New 2Pac' & Names 'The New Fat Joe'
Elsewhere during that controversial Rap City ’21 interview, Fat Joe proclaimed his own heir to be Coney Island rapper Nems.
Once the underground artist got word the “Lean Back” legend was praising his early rap career, he shared the honor on his Instagram.
How can he say Pac the realest when dude was just an actor pretending to be a gangsta
An actor wouldn’t have shot those two cops and an actor wouldn’t have got shot in the balls and still walked around.
Peek game tho instead of just spreading hate. That dude was actually wild and young, as everyone was around that time. But you could clearly tell that he came with a clear plan to educate en uplift people, while trying to make something of his life. He just seemed to be really loyal en around a lot of toxic people, and that might have been the cause of his early demise.
Was 2pac acting when he shot 2 off duty police officers? Was 2pac acting when he beat up Orlando A? was 2pac acting when he got shoot 5 times, came back and dropped Hit em up? Was 2pac acting when he started Death row East?…2pac is more gangsta than favorite gangsta rapper and Pac never rapped “I’m a gangsta” …get your facts right!
Let me guess your 14 years old and your favorite rapper is Young Thug who wears female clothes ?
Your mistaking drake with 2pac ?
LDN you stupid BI#$H…
Yet another rapper using pac’s name to revive their long dead career. Isn’t it ironic thst a guy who’s been dead for 25 years is still the name all these rappers take to make/renew their careers?
People still talking about 2pac to this day, shows you the type of impact the man had. But that BS fat joe said bout Dababy being close to 2pac was terrible take lol. Should be concerned bout taking care of Pun’s family like he was suppose to, decades later. JOEY CRACK!
There’s no comparison. Pac from a different cloth. Dababy has his own wins but he needs to stay off the big mouth filter lol
Dababy is JUST like 2pac: fake ass thug, shitty raps, only retards like him
Like we retards who fucked your mom, I don’t know which one of us is your father, wasn’t me coz she ate your siblings str8 out my cock
How are either one of them fake? Explain you nonsense…
Yall mfs suckin on 2pac’s dick waaaaaay too much! He was just another humain being walkin on this eart that’s it. He didn’t walk on water or cure the lepers. Yall actin like he was a prophet or somethin. FOH. This mf wore a nose ring, had feminine manners and posed naked in a bathtub. He probably was one of the first hidden gay rapper ever. SMH