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Is Fat joe really a street legend in New york
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Cool. Thanks for validating that for us.
Hannibal Fox
Eetwidomayloh
The wrong brother to talk shyt to
We know 95% was DuckTales.
Like many he was the New York teen who stepped off the porch in the height of the crack era and saw some weight and wild shyt but was not a mid-level dealer or a distributor.
Like many he was the New York teen who stepped off the porch in the height of the crack era and saw some weight and wild shyt but was not a mid-level dealer or a distributor.
sneakers&sex
Pro
So if you from the era and grew up with the god how was it next door in mckinely projects that place is a warzone last time i was there ?
The War Report
NewNewYork
Lord Finesse, Diamond D, ShowBiz, and AG are his contemporaries. Their co signs speak volumes. All Bronx veterans.
Rev Leon Lonnie Love
damned mine eyes, DAMNED mine eyes!!
I haven’t been up there since the early 90s and back then them cats was wild up there.. I use to mess with this chic that went to Jane Adams H.S
Mikeatris
Supreme Mathematik
Just-Ice also. They said the dude was so violent the Five Percent Nation did not even want to deal with him. And just like Showbiz he beat a murder case. He was actually on America's Most Wanted for it
sneakers&sex
Pro
I used to chill there heavy back in 2012 shyt was a hell hole. All the dust spots is in mckienly p’s i even seen tony sunshine high off leaky, my boy used to serve him up we used to laugh about that all the time
get these nets
Veteran
They didn't want Just in the Self Destruction project because of what he was doing in the streets. He wasn't a reformed gangster, but still active, so they felt he contradicted what the message of the song was about.
documentary for Self-Destruction/Stop The Violence
www.thecoli.com
@23:20 he briefly talks about it.
Redwood
Superstar
Yall bugging, there's 30 years of people validating Crack as who he says he was...
He's a dumbass selling this "I make it up" shyt thinking he gone get Jeff off, and yall ain't too bright for eating this shyt up because I guarantee you The State of Georgia ain't buying this bullshyt...
That said, everyone embellishes their street cred some. Nobody in front of the mic is as scary or as paid as they say. No one....but the streets talk for everyone. There's just way too much support of Joe having been a real name that goes back a generation, literally...
I used to hang around Borough dudes when I lived in Albany, circa 2012, and all of em were older than me. Not a single person ever said Crack was a fraud, not one...
Let me ask you this, is 50 Cent a street legend? Black Just and Bimmy vouched for him and they're street legends. We know he had issues with Preme and Henchmen who are street legends. E Money Bags vouched for him and he's another big name.
When you say legend that's a first ballot hall of famer. 50 and Joe were heavy in the streets but they weren't kingpins or hyper violent boogeymen. They're not up there with those guys. Maybe they made an All Star, Pro Bowl game or two but they're not getting gold jackets. If you let Joe and 50 in there's a thousand others who were on their level or higher you're going to have to call legends but you don't know them because they don't rap.
I grew up in crack era NY. This is all anecdotal and I never ran the streets but had family who did. I first heard about the Supreme Team when visiting them in the Bronx. They used to talk about them often as well as all the big names in Harlem. I first heard about the Decepticons, a Brooklyn crew who had kids in every borough scared to ride the subway, from them. For what it's worth I never heard them mention Joe and they're not far from his hood. I'd go to school and hear about Alpo. These guys names were everywhere whether it was word of mouth or newspapers.
Yeah this … there is different levels to been a street legend as you said …. all rappers including cats who have that official stamp on them 50 , joe , maino , cass etc are nowhere near the level of cats like supreme , henchman , alpo N the list goes on ….
Speaking on fat joe …. He must have had some pulll and even muta from the outlawz confirmed when pac was locked up in Clinton or rikers during his prison sentence in 95 for the sexual assault situation some Hispanics were trying to get at pac n fat joe sent word for them to cut it out and look out for him while he was in there …..so he definitely had some influence on the streets for it to reach the prison walls …..