Fat Joe has convinced Eli Manning to do his famous “lean back” dance which he claims is a move that deserves to be in the history books.
In a recent Instagram video, the Bronx rap legend is seen standing in between Super Bowl champions Shaun O’Hara and Eli Manning at a sneaker boutique. After executing the dance move at perfect pace, Fat Joe simply throws his hands up in amazement and shouts: “History’s made.”
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Fat Joe actually spoke to HipHopDX about the origins of the iconic dance during last year’s BET Hip Hop Awards and said that the inspiration came from Jamaican music.
“The same time that I recorded it [was the first time I did the dance],” he said. “At the time, Jamaican music was really, really killing ’em. And I said, ‘I need something to rockaway, lean back.’ So when I made it, I made the dance for it. The same time.”
He added: “We knew off rip, that thing was outta here. Every now and then you make a song that’s like, ‘Oh no, this is gone. This is outta here.’ Yeah that was it.”
Fat Joe also talked about his cameo in 2003’s Scary Movie 3 and explained how meeting Kevin Hart on the set of the movie led to him appearing in the “Lean Back” video.
“I wrote those bars and I’m more than happy to have wrote them,” he said. “That’s where I met Kevin Hart and Anthony Anderson on the set of that – he was like an extra. And so I met [Hart], I thought he was funny and he was telling jokes.
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“Then like two weeks later, I shot ‘Lean Back’ and I called him up. I said, ‘Remember the little funny guy? Let’s get him in the video.’ So he came in ‘Lean Back’ and that was his first big moment. Scary Movie made that all happen.”
Released in 2004, “Lean Back” peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Remy Ma-featuring, Scott Storch-produced song appeared on Terror Squad’s second and final album, True Story.
Meanwhile, Fat Joe recently took to Instagram Live to tell aspiring rappers it’s time to get a consistent job if their rhymes aren’t bringing in a check.
“If your man said he raps and he don’t have a deal. There’s a problem with that,” he told the ladies in the virtual audience. “It’s called plan A, get a job. Plan B, hope you make it. This has never changed.
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“Some guys be like, ‘I gotta get a regular job?’ Bro, you gotta get a job! If you got kids and you got this girl that got an apartment and y’all sexin’ it up every day, you got to pay some bills.”
Fat Joe continued while quoting Nas classic “Life’s A Bitch”: “And that dollar and a dream — ‘That buck that bought the bottle could’ve struck the lotto.’ Nah!”
