Fat Joe

As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything. ”

My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier. ”

I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too. ”

We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands. ”

I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them. ”

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about. ”

I was scared to fly for a long time. ”

Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest. ”

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be. ”

We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping. ”