Fat Joe Talks J. Cole's Kendrick Lamar Apology: 'When You Called Out in Hip Hop, You Gotta Respond'
Fat Joe revisited his intense feud with 50 Cent while also addressing Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole's brief hip hop exchange.
Fat Joe, real name Joseph Antonio Cartagena, suggested that J. Cole may have hurt his reputation by apologizing to Lamar.
Joe appeared on the 'Jay Shetty' podcast published Sunday on YouTube, where he recounted his beef with 50 Cent, which started in the late 1990s.
"I had one of the biggest, most dangerous rap beefs with 50 Cent, and I was sitting next to him at the game yesterday, having the best time in the world," he shared. "We're brothers. ... When you called out in hip hop, you gotta respond. And so I'm a big fan of J. Cole, but it started from that."
"[Cole] probably saw that it could get real messy and real ugly and so he said, 'Yo, you know what, this ain't me I don't want no parts of it.' But he definitely got a stripe off his...they took a stripe off of that, because in hip hop, they call you out, you come out," Fat Joe, 53, said.
In early April, Cole, real name Jermaine Lamarr Cole, apologized to Kendrick Lamar at his Dreamville Festival. The 39-year-old said that he felt "lame" and "terrible" about his "7 Minute Drill" diss track.
The apology led to mixed reactions from the hip hop community.
50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, commented on Instagram, "WTF how I miss this, @realcoleworld call my phone right now!"
