The Book of Jose: A Memoir

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RASCOE: With a career spanning decades, Joe has been able to parlay his street credibility into massive hits that jealous ones still envy. He shows humbleness in how he expresses his love and gratitude for all those that opened doors for him in his career. Rappers seldom speak on mental health and suicidal thinking, so I was impressed with Joe’s vulnerability with how he dealt with waves of depression throughout his life. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

Fat Joe's career spans three decades – but before he was performing on stages around the world, he was a little kid getting bullied in the Bronx. As a self proclaimed hip hop head I loved all the behind the scenes stories and I agree with him that Fat Joe the artist is severely underrated. Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out six years’ worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Questlove, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr.It was people that you and I know and respect that were putting them out, and they were changing narratives. The Book of Jose details your upbringing in the South Bronx, and it's very interconnected with the evolution of hip-hop. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. Like anyone else, they developed the skills they’d need to survive, but didn’t have anywhere healthy to put it. Hip-Hop Legend Fat Joe Sets the Record Straight in “The Book of Jose” The Bronx rapper brings his storytelling talents to new heights in a memoir tracing his “action-packed” life and the birth of a great American art form.

The funniest story is one where in which Joe describes how 50 Cent put out an entire Fat Joe diss tape. Now it has made trillions of dollars across the world, it has employed millions of people and families. Q: You reinvented yourself during quarantine as a talk-show host on your Instagram Live show where you hosted interviews with guests such as Rep. Apart from getting his backstory, I appreciate his unique perspectives on the development of hip hop culture over the past few decades. The year before that, you and Cam’ron saw New York rapper Big L lifeless on the street after being shot in Harlem.It made him feel like no one really had his back and he needed to become someone tough and who people didn't mess with. FJ: The only way you could go through what I went through—my first son being autistic, I'm just 19, his mother abandoning him. It’s gonna go into me being bullied and the poor choices I made in life and how I changed my life,” Joe said.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Other traumas include almost having his hand placed in a meat grinder by a drug kingpin who suspected that he stole a car. Fat Joe’s memoir reads just like his hits sound, brimming with flashy style, street smarts, and survivor’s strength. Joe is a charismatic narrator who owns his faults even as he celebrates their spoils, chronicling the ups and downs of his lifestyle, including being shot when he was 17 and signing with his first record label in the early ’90s.Joe's biggest hits came out when I was in college in the early 2000s so I probably represent the bulk of his readership and i have NO clue who these rappers from the Bronx are in 1992. I try to say it so much less now, but moments when I'm not thinking and I'm in my house, I say it to my son, I say it to my daughter. Just imagine going to school every single day, and the girls in the typing class would be, Joey, they're waiting for you to beat you up. This is one incredible memoir and is way too much for me to express how essential this read is especially for Men and Boys of color. I have a show on Starz which is the Fat Joe Big Big Show, an evolution of the IG Show on Starz, with Puff and LeBron.

How crazy it is to have a long-running rivalry with Jay-Z, and then you go to Roc Nation, they manage you under the leadership of Desiree Perez?Fat Joe opens the book like a blockbuster movie, packed with tales of violence, drug-dealing, fast cars, and more.