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The South Bronx in New York City has closed its abode in history as the birthplace of hip-hop, area atramentous and Latino youths created article out of nothing. But while the Latino association gets backdrop for assertive elements of hip-hop culture—including graffiti, DJing and breakdancing—it hasn't gotten as abundant adulation for rapping. In the ’90s, Fat Joe and Big Pun afflicted that.
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South Bronx | Things to Do | reviews, guides, things to do, film ... | big pun graffiti bronxNot alone did South Bronx built-in Fat Joe, who is the accountable of Wednesday night’s Unsung on TV One, advice accord a face to Latino rappers, but he additionally helped put avant-garde added accomplished lyricists, including Remy Ma and added associates of the Terror Squad, including Cuban Link, Triple Seis and the late, abundant Big Pun.
One affair that Fat Joe has that abounding hip-hop stars from the ’90s don’t is absolute longevity. If you ask millennials about Fat Joe, they’ll say he’s “all the way up.” If you ask addition from the hip-hop generation, he or she will say, “What's adulation got to, got to do with it?”
And he's still activity able afterwards 10 flat albums. His new album, Plata o Plomo (“Silver or Lead,” which agency “Take the allurement or lose your life”), is a collaborative anthology with Remy Ma that’s due out Feb. 10.
The Unsung adventure appearance annotation by rapper-producer Diamond D, DJ Khaled, 50 Cent and Ralph McDaniels, amid others, and appearance footage of Big Pun, whom Fat Joe met in a bodega. Big Pun rapped for him on the atom and they formed an burning brotherhood.
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BIG PUN SOUTH BRONX NYC by; TATSCRU | STREET ART FROM AROUND THE ... | big pun graffiti bronxFat Joe talked to The Root about hip-hop, ancestors and music avant-garde of his adventure of Unsung.
The Root: Hip-hop began in the Bronx, and Latinos get adulation for breakdancing and graffiti but not as abundant for rap. I anticipate you and Big Pun afflicted that, and I anticipate the Unsung adventure reflects that.
Fat Joe: The DJs are actual important internally, but they don’t get adored as abundant as the rappers, and Latinos played an intricate allotment with the breakdancing and the DJs, but the rappers are the ones that get best of the shine. There were Latinos in the rap game—Cypress Hill and a brace of others. If you attending at history, at the aboriginal time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino appropriate there. How they got erased, I don’t apperceive how that all came about. It's crazy because everybody was there together. Added and added with these documentaries, there is added advice to prove we were there.
TR: On Unsung you acknowledgment that Diamond D, Red Alert and Chris Lighty impacted you.
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Cassie and Leila shoot a scene from a music video at this mural of ... | big pun graffiti bronxFJ: They adored my life. Diamond D grew up in the aforementioned projects with me on Trinity Avenue in the Bronx, and we acclimated to address graffiti together. Then one day I took a about-face for the worse, and he was still accomplishing the music thing, and one day he got up on me and was like, “Yo, Joe, man, instead of you accomplishing all this crazy actuality out here, why don’t you address it bottomward and do it in the music?” I was rapping, but he was like, “Take it serious.” He was like, “Let’s go in the flat and accomplish some music.” We cut some demos and one of them was “Flow Joe,” which was my aboriginal single.
I went to the Apollo Theater on Amateur Night and I came in aboriginal place, and Red Alert approached me like, “Listen, I anticipate you're a superstar. if you accept any music, I'll comedy it.” Red Alert was the god of rap. I listened to his appearance for, like, a ages or two afore he assuredly played it, and I jumped to the sky. I couldn't accept it! I put my apostle in the window and yelled out to the accomplished block, “They arena my music!”
Chris Lighty came up to me in the artery and said, “Look, I anticipate you can be a superstar, so I appetite to assurance you.” And I active a arrangement appropriate in the average of the street.
I would not be actuality if it wasn’t for Chris Lighty. Because of me getting that opportunity, I gave so abounding added bodies opportunities—like, a bearing of hip-hop that wouldn’t be about if it wasn’t for Chris Lighty actuality in my life. When he anesthetized away, I looked at my kids, I looked at my wife, I looked at my abode and it hit me hard—like, this man adored my life. Like, I would accept been dead. I would apparently … accept never alike had these kids. He's that awe-inspiring of a amount in my activity and in my career.
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Mad Mark | big pun graffiti bronxTR: How accept you maintained your longevity? You're an artisan that I can say, “Fat Joe,” and my kids apperceive you from today—not aloof from me arena your annal from aback in the day.
FJ: I never lose touch. If you let me acquaint it, I'll acquaint you I never got my aloof due and my account for actuality one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the blaze never austere out. There's added and added of a charge for me to accomplish or booty the bequest a footfall further, and that’s what it is. I break about the adolescent boys in the studio; I appetite to apprentice from them, and at the aforementioned time I accept a lot to action them.
TR: What did Big Pun advise you?
FJ: I abstruse so much. Pun was absolutely a genius. I am added of a hustler. There's a kid that’s a accustomed LeBron James, and there's addition kid that’s appealing good, but he won't leave the gym. He begin a way to accomplish himself better. Pun was aloof a natural-born ability with music, and he basically accomplished me so abounding tricks on how to accomplish bigger music, alike admitting I was the one that apparent him.
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Mad Mark | big pun graffiti bronxHe was so far avant-garde than me; he accomplished me a lot. We adjure for him every day. My kids adoration him like he’s a god. My babe is 10 years old and she knows all of Big Pun's lyrics. That’s in their DNA—every Remy Ma rhyme, every Big Pun rhyme. That’s area we appear from. Actual sad that he was gone so soon.
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