Fat Joe Speaks About Big Pun's Death

In case you don't know, Big Pun is still one of the biggest selling Latino rappers in Hip Hop history. His first album, Capital Punishment went platinum back when it was released in 1998, and it made him the first Latino rapper to go platinum. Fat Joe had signed him to Terror Squad Records in 1995 after hearing him rap outside a store. They remained friends/business associates till Pun passed away from a heart attack in 2000.

In his recent interview (a couple of days ago) on Hot 97 radio, Fat Joe was asked by Funk Master Flex if he knew Big Pun was not in a good place health-wise before his passing, and he said...



"I didn't know nothing. I was eating just as much as Big Pun. And we was hanging out the same way. We knew he was a big guy since I met, did I think he would die? No way. He was a young kid. He was in his twenties."

Cuban Link Recalls Funny Big Pun Memory

Terror Squad was a force to recon with in the late 90s, early 2000s. Although they didn't sell huge numbers, they were super lyrical, and were respected in the streets. The team was all Latino rappers, except from Remy Ma. Fat Joe put the crew together, but Big Pun was the most commercially successful in there, before he passed away in 2000. Asides from being a rap crew, they were all very close friends. This great hip hop group has since fallen apart, and some are even beefing with each-other. HipHopDX recently caught up with one of the members, Cuban Link, and got him to speak on one of his best Big Pun memories. 

 "It’s so many, man. My favorite was before the music started, man. It was just us going to the movies and him doing a fucking cartwheel as soon as we get in the matinee at Whitestone Cinema in the Bronx. We had a couple of 40s, and this nigga just walks down the aisle and does a somersault. People was in the fuckin’ movie theatre looking crazy like, what the fuck we on? It goes from there to us fucking going to the Poconos when 'Still Not A Player.' was already poppin’. We were all on quads and we following Pun all day like he’s the leader. He had the big ass quad, the 800, it was fun. Out of nowhere he left all of us. He just jetted, and we couldn’t find him. And out of nowhere I see the fucking quad turned over by a tree. Over the tree was a big ass hill so I’m like, “What the fuck happened to my brother?” I’m getting nervous, and we find this nigga on the side of a tree. It was a tree that leaned over the mountain, but he was on top of the tree with blood on the side of his lip. It was me and Sunkiss there at the time, and we’re looking for help and yelling, “Yo, Twin, yo, yo!” and this nigga just pops up and start gigging on us [laughs]. He caught us and shit. He was playing dead, and it was funny to us, but for a second it was real serious."

Joe Speaks on Success of His Collaboration With Big Pun, 'Still Not A Player'

In 1997, R&B singer, Joe had a hit song called I Don't Wanna Be a Player. Big Pun was just putting his debut album together at the time, and he had done something with the same idea as Joe's hit song, so they decided to work together. The marriage was Still Not A Player, a song that was like a remix of Joe's hit, but an entirely new song. That song was a super hit in the summer of 1997. In this recent interview with VLAD TV, Joe spoke on the success of Still Not A Player, and how the song came about. 

“The ‘Still Not A Player’ record was kinda funny because I had ‘Don’t Wanna Be A Player’ as my single at the time. And Pun had, I think, a similar record too. I’m not sure what it was called, but anyways the two songs were so similar we just sat down and chopped it up and was like ‘Yo, we should just merge the two.’ And played a few tracks and it came around to this one particular track. It just felt like the right one. And Fat Joe got with us. We got in the studio and I put the hook down. Pun apparently had his verse written out to a t. I didn’t think the record was gonna take off like that to be honest with you. It was one of those records where I loved it. I thought it was fun, but I didn’t know it was gonna be like a mega-mega-hit."

Throwback Song: John Blaze (Fat Joe feat. Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss, and Raekwon)

Our throwback song of the day is John Blaze, one of the hottest songs off Fat Joe's Don Cartagena album. It features Nas, Big Pun, Jada, and Raekwon. What a lineup...Just watch out for Big Pun's verse on this song.

BIG PUN'S WIFE VERSUS FAT JOE.(PART 1)

BIG PUN PASSED IN 2000 AND HIS WIFE, LIZA RIOS HAS BEE TAKING SHOTS AT FAT JOE, ACCUSING HIM OF NOT HELPING HER OUT SINCE PUN PASSED.
Bìg pun was fat joe's employee and good friend. And pun's wife believes that it should be his responsibility to see to it that she and her kids are okay financially. Joe said he has helped her out in the past and that he has not made a dime off pun's music since pun died.
They have been going back and forth for a couple of years now. Recently, they have started their on and off arguement through interviews. Pun's wife claims joe has not helped out since pun died.
Joe said she got all of the endangered species album(pun's third album) earnings, and also got pun's publishing. Pun's wife claims she only got $125,000 off the album.