Fat Joe has finally shared details for his upcoming album The World Changed On Me, and it turns out that he’s paying tribute to someone very close to him.
On Tuesday (December 3), Joey Crack posted the cover art and release date for the project. It will drop on December 13.
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The cover is a photograph of Joe and his older brother Angel, who died this past Thanksgiving.
Check it out below.
Angel started out as a DJ in the Bronx during the early days of Hip Hop, Joe recalled in a 2022 NPR interview.
“[W]hen he would go DJ at the legendary jams, my brother would carry milk crates that had vinyl,” he said. “Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel — they call me Little Angel.”
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Joe acknowledged his brother’s passing on Instagram.
“On the AM of Thanksgiving, my Big Brother Angel aka the Money Man Passed Away,” he wrote. “You Walked so that the Terror Squad could run. You were the most giving person i ever known.”
In addition to his brother, Joe recently revealed other sources of inspiration for his upcoming LP.
During an Instagram Live session with Michael Rainey Jr. on October 2, Joe revealed the rappers he looks to when making new albums.
He began: “Whenever I make an album, I always put up a poster of Nas, a poster of JAY-Z and one of Eminem. And I be like, ‘Yo, I gotta be as good as them or even better. In my own mind. I could be delusional, but I do that. I shoot for the stars.”
Back in July, a reporter for TMZ caught up with the Terror Squad boss in Los Angeles to talk about his peers such as Nas, DJ Premier, LL Cool J, Common and Pete Rock all releasing new projects in 2024.
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“Breaking news: Fat Joe be dropping a[n] album in August, too, so put me in that list of pioneers and legends and icons,” he shared. While that release date got pushed back, we now know that the new project is finally coming.
Joe released his last album back in 2021, and stated the very next year that he didn’t plan on releasing fresh material anytime soon.
