The second Fat Joe thought he was “going to die”

Fat Joe is a legend in New York hip-hop and was one of many first Latino rappers to take care of a profitable profession in rap. The Bronx artist was beforehand a member of the Diggin’ In The Crates crew alongside Lord Finesse Massive L and others. The lyricist then went on to discovered the Terror Squad. 

Nevertheless, in the course of the early days of his profession, whereas he was nonetheless residing within the Bronx, the emcee (actual title Jose Cartagena) had some wild experiences. Throughout a speech on the opening day of the Roc Nation Faculty of Music Sports activities & Leisure, Cartagena gave an in depth story of his journey into music that included an odd story about him getting excessive.

Talking to a reasonably large crowd, the ‘Lean Back’ musician defined, “So I’m in my apartment, I’m still in The Bronx, and she convinces me to get high. She goes, ‘Yo let’s smoke this weed; it’s incredible…so I smoke. I got so paranoid I ran out the house butt naked, real talk.”

After a barrage of laughter, he continued, “In the middle of the night. I ran out of there. They call that a bad trip or something, right? I ran out of there, and the girl, she pulls up in my car. I have the white Lexus, and she’s like, ‘Joe, Joe, get in the car.’ I was already Fat Joe, too…I was like, ‘I’m gonna die! I gotta go to the hospital! I’m gonna die!”

Laughing about his teenage expertise, Cartagena unveiled that ultimately, he did get into the automotive, divulging, “So she convinced me to get in the car and said she was gonna take me to the hospital, and she takes me around the block, and we go in the crib, and I take like seven showers.”

Though embarrassing tales like these are hardly ever heard from rappers, final yr, Fat Joe launched his ebook, The E-book of Jose, which incorporates tales from the time he spent in jail a decade in the past to the time he was kidnapped in Angola.

Though Cartagena can look again on the occasion now as a foolish one-off, one can’t doubt that the ‘What’s Luv?’ rhymer actually thought he was going to die. You possibly can watch Fat Joe communicate in regards to the expertise within the video beneath.