Fat Joe has cleared up speculation surrounding his stage name after shedding an impressive 200lbs thanks in part to Ozempic.
In an interview with Big Boy, the “Lean Back” legend discussed his remarkable weight loss and whether it will have any impact on his rap moniker.
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“When [Big] Pun passed, I had lost maybe 100-something pounds, but I was still big. I was almost 500 pounds,” he said.
“And then a friend of mine died, he was 20-something. He was the funniest fat dude. I went to his funeral and he had a daughter like me. It was almost like Ebenezer Scrooge — I walked up in the funeral and I said, ‘This is gonna happen to you and you’re gonna leave your family looking like this.’
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“And that’s when I went on super lose weight mode, working out two times a day, not even eating a cracker. I call it crackhead mode, you know what I’m saying?”
Big Boy then asked Fat Joe if he’ll ever follow in the footsteps of a Jeezy (f.k.a. Young Jeezy) and shed the “Fat” from his name now that he’s much slimmer, but the veteran rapper didn’t seem keen on the idea.
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“With Fat Joe, we’ve spent so many millions of dollars to this day. When I come out at the World Series, they say, ‘rapper Fat Joe.’ If they just said, ‘rapper Joe,’ you wouldn’t know who the hell that is,” he said.
“We spent all of our money pumping up Fat Joe that even if I slimmed down way more than this, I gotta be Fat Joe!”
Back in October, Fat Joe admitted to using the weight loss drug Ozempic to help him shed around 200lbs.
Talking to Us Weekly, he said: “We just try to eat everything with the least carbs as possible. So we try to stay away from the bread, the pasta, the rice.
“That’s the smartest way to eat. Like this morning I ate breakfast, I had this toast. I cut the corner off, ate it and kept it moving.”
He added: “Normally I would’ve ate the whole thing. But you know, that’s what we do. We cut carbs and try to be smarter. Ozempic says you may only have two pieces of your favorite stuff.”
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The 54-year-old also discussed his wife preferring him bigger: “My wife would kill me. She likes me being a big boy. She hallucinates like I’m still that big boy. She loves that.”
Joe’s love of Ozempic could also be seen during Halloween last year when he dressed as a bottle of the medication, which was originally manufactured to help diabetes sufferers but has now become a popular way to lose weight quickly.
