![]() ![]() So my mom lives there 40 years before I was born, in this project, and I’m born blonde hair, green eyes. ![]() So I’m Spanish, I knew I was Latino, but the whole time I thought I was Black anyway. “My grandmother’s projects is 99.9% Black, to be clear. “First of all, my projects is 90%, I’ll give you 80% Black still,” Fat Joe said. In addition, this recent interview follows weeks after Fat Joe defended his use of the N-word in his music with comments to The Source, by saying he grew up in the birthplace of hip hop and during the birth of hip hop. And people were unhappy with the idea that the Awards ceremony on a Black-centered network and celebrates Black talent and music was not being hosted by someone from the community.Īll these black people you could of chose to host the bet awards but someone in the room said let’s get fat joe to host lmao wtf that’s not our guy we wanting hosting the bet hip hop awards These comments come after Fat Joe came under fire for hosting the BET Awards as a non-Black artist of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. So when we went to his hood, it was 90% Puerto Rican, Latino flags in the window… I could not believe that it was like Puerto Rican heaven over there.” Don’t know how to explain it to you any other way,” Fat Joe explained before going on about how things changed when he met people from his background, “And so it wasn’t until I went to high school and met another Latino brother that was a real dude, and he said, ‘Yo, come hang out with me in my hood.’ And ten blocks away was like another world. “So I grew up blonde hair, green eyes, knowing I’m Latino, but thinking I’m Black. I’m listening to, ‘I Will Survive.’ That’s what my house was playing, right?” My grandmother’s neighborhood was 99.9% black, where there was no popular Latinos or nothing… And so when I’m born, I’m not listening to salsa and all that,” he started. “My projects, my neighborhood was predominantly Black. The Bronx-raised artist claimed that the neighborhood he grew up shaped his outlook on his background and cultural ties. In an interview with NPR’s The Limits With Jay Williams, Fat Joe spoke on why he feels connected to Hip-Hop culture and Black communities. Fat Joe has more to say about his self-proclaimed ties to the Black community. ![]()
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