Fat Joe

“I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.”

“The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.”

“What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.”

“To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.”

“The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.”

“I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.”

“If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.”

“I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?”

“Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.”

“I ain't here to tell nobody what's right or what's wrong.”

“All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.”

“We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.”

“There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.”

“When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.”

“Puerto Rico is a powerful island.”

“I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.”

“We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.”

“Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.”

“DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.”

“When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.”