Fat Joe has found himself the butt of jokes over a Sexyy Red-related slip-up at the 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards.
The Bronx rap veteran hosted the annual awards show, which was held at Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on October 3 and televized on Tuesday (October 10).
While opening the show, Joey Crack attempted to show love to the rising St. Louis rapper by referencing her hit song and signature ad-lib “SkeeYee,” only to butcher its pronunciation.
“Yes indeed! Shout out to DaBaby, shout out to Sexyy Red. SkeeYoo!” he said to a smattering of awkward laughs from the audience.
The gaffe didn’t go unnoticed by viewers at home, either, who proceeded to clown Fat Joe on social media.
“Nah bro why did Fat Joe say SKEE-YOOOUUUU LLLMMFFAAOOOOOOO,” read one viral post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which has racked up over 400,000 views.
“When old n-ggas still tryna be hip,” someone else joked, while fellow rapper Freddie Gibbs added to Joe’s woes by reposting the clip on X along with a laughing face emoji.
Even Sexyy Red herself reacted to the moment, commenting on The Shade Room‘s Instagram post: “Man what [crying face emojis].”
However, one person defended Fat Joe by pointing out that his late friend and collaborator Big Pun said, “Skee-Yu!” on “It’s So Hard,” so it’s possible he may have been referencing that.
Despite Fat Joe possibly getting her ad-lib wrong, Sexyy Red still put her stamp on the 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards as she graced the stage not once, but twice.
The 25-year-old helped kickstart the show by performing “Shake Sum’n (Remix)” with DaBaby before later delivering a solo medley of her biggest songs, including “Pound Town,” “Shake Yo Dreads” and, of course, “SkeeYee.”
The performance comes on the heels of another milestone moment in Sexyy’s rapidly-rising career as “SkeeYee” climbed to No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, becoming her highest-charting hit so far.
She also recently appeared on Drake‘s new album For All the Dogs, sharing guest vocal duties alongside SZA on “Rich Baby Daddy.” Sexyy spent this past summer opening for Drizzy and 21 Savage on their blockbuster It’s All a Blur Tour.
Watch Sexyy Red’s 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards performances below:
I don’t get the humor. Sounds like shit I heard everyday growing up in New York.
If a 21 year old rapper that was famous made the same mistake, nobody would say shit. Just saying.
so he mispronounced one syllable of a wack ass gibberish name of a song from a disposable gimmicky “artist” who will be gone and working at McDonalds in 2 years tops? whoopty doo, what a big deal!
I know you’re making your point but bro this making fun of jobs like McDonald’s and other fast food or delivery jobs. That’s gotta stop. It’s a bad stereotype that you’re a loser if you work at those places. I work retail a job is a job that’s my point. The main sexxy red song is catchy u don’t like then don’t listen.
touche; you’re right a job is a job, no shame in that. correction, she’ll be on only fans looking for simps to keep her lights on in a few years
@name and FactSpeaker619 ya’ll are both on the money. Excellent point about the retail and food service jobs by FactSpeaker619 there’s no shame working in any of those it’s more honorable and respectable than OF or SW. And excellent hilarious points by name about “so he mispronounced one syllable of a wack ass gibberish name of a song from a disposable gimmicky “artist” who will be gone and on only fans looking for simps to keep her lights on in a few years” Amen to both comments 🙌🙌💯💯
this why I don’t pick up the phone so don’t
can’t fall love with fantasy
best fantasy yet ……
is u fantasy …..
just me and god just me and god
She’s so trash and cringy and so is all of her material that’s it’s worth butchering her corny dumb Adlibs
SKEEEEE-YOOOOOUUUUUU
Her coochie is SKEEEYOOOUUU and her booty hole is SKEEEEEYOOOUUU. Is this what Hip Hop became?
It’s not even close to hip hop. It’s ratchet stripper musik for ghetto hood rats and rainbow community. Comparing real hip hop to this trash is like comparing a canoe to a double decker yacht. It doesn’t make sense on any level.
I relate to Sexyy Red a lot. My bootyhole is also brown. Preach sister !!!
bottom of the barrel.
This fat piece of shit keeps parading Big Pun corpse around like he was his twin.. meanwhile he did Pun widow and kids dirty.. even blackballing Chris Rivers aka Baby Pun in the industry. This beluga whale done cockblock the kid so he cant blow up. Liza Rios fighting to get money that she is owed and the kid is cockblocked in the music biz this shit is all fucked up in all type of ways yo