Fat Joe still has his finger on the pulse of Hip Hop culture, and this was more evident than ever from the stacked guest appearances at his most recent show.
On Tuesday (April 2), the Terror Squad boss hosted the Fat Joe & Friends concert at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.
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During the set, he welcomed a number of rap veterans on stage such as 50 Cent, Ghostface Killah, Lil Kim, Ashanti, The LOX, Remy Ma and State Property, among many others.
Check out the full list of cameos below:
The concert, which was put together in celebration of the 20 year anniversary of Joey Crack’s 2004 hit “Lean Back,” also featured performances of “Shook Ones, Part II” by Mobb Deep‘s Havoc, “Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby)” by Peter Gunz, “We Fly High (Ballin’)” by Dipset and many more.
Check out clips from the stacked show below:
On the subject of honoring the people who elevated Hip Hop over the past few decades, the Fat Joe recently joined the select group of people who have shown support for Diddy amidst his ongoing legal issues.
In late March, the 53-year-old shared his thoughts about the Bad Boys mogul’s worsening struggles during an interview with Hot 97.
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“What I can say in the most respectful way is, I don’t know all the details,” he said. “But I’ve been praying for him and his family. He’s my friend for 30 years. And so, I’m gonna just see what the outcome is, and I’m praying for the best thing for him, and his family, and everybody involved.”
He continued: “So I’m not disrespecting nobody. I’m just praying for this whole situation — this whole nightmare — I’m praying that it goes away.”
Similarly, Maino also made it clear where he stands on the issue while making fun of Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who filed a lawsuit against the mogul for sexual assault back in February.
“You got some dude named Lil Rod,” he said during an interview on The Baller Alert Show. “First of all, there should be a fucking pause on his name. The n-gga’s name [is] Lil Rod? That’s pause.”
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He went on to compare the sexual-assault cases and federal sex trafficking investigation against the businessman to the FBI’s COINTELPRO (COunterINTELligence PROgram), which targeted organizations such the Black Panther Party that were deemed subversive.
The 50-year-old said that he noticed similar dynamics in the complaints and investigation against Diddy, drawing parallels to the Bureau’s “snitch jacketing” technique of falsely labeling a member of a targeted group as a police informant.
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“[I]f you know anything about the ’60s and what they did with Black leadership and all that, these were some of the tactics,” he added. “To destroy you, basically they divide and conquer.
“COINTELPRO, what they would do was, they would put out misinformation. Have us looking at each other. They sending out letters and sending out things saying, this one talking about that one, this one got caught doing this. And it keeps us disorganized. Also, propaganda, which is fueled through the media, is a tool that’s always been used.”
