Fat Joe says he is the realest rapper alive next to Tupac and who are we to argue with him?
Right?
Riiiiiight?
On a recent episode of his Joe & Jada podcast, he proudly proclaimed that he is “the realest rapper to ever live” while admitting that the late Tupac Shakur is the only other MC who could possibly be more authentic.
“I’mma admit something. I think I’m the realest rapper to ever live, I’ll keep it a buck with you, besides 2Pac. I really believe that,”
Vibe reports that naysayers called “cap” on the rapper and Fat Joe took to the Hollywood Unlocked Instagram comment section to further state his case.
“Street sh*t I did that on another level, none of these guys have,” Joey Crack wrote. “You’ve never in ur life heard of any rapper or street dude checking me. i ain’t talking bout back in the day, i stay with a half a million dollar watch on everyday, yall gotta stop.” See the clip and his response to viewer comments below.
Fat Joe says he’s the realest rapper to ever live besides Tupac
“I think I’m the realest rapper to ever live, if I keep it a buck with you. Besides Tupac, I really believe that.”pic.twitter.com/ZKPSmz7QvF
— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) August 29, 2025
Fat Joe has been taking advantage of the platform he shares with fellow rapper Jadakiss to express his thoughts on much of the culture, including the BET Hip-Hop Awards and Soul Train Awards going on hiatus.
“This is a form of gentrification, what’s going on. I don’t know if you really want to ask me about this sh*t,” he explained as a former host of the BET Hip-Hop Awards. “BET came up as a community station for Black people and urban culture. Our man Bob Johnson took the check…he sold it to Viacom Paramount. MTV and them. VH1 and them. Little by little over the years, quietly, they’ve been firing a lot of people behind the scenes at BET, and everybody who has something to say, they been firing them. And I know ’cause I’ve been working on the BET Hip-Hop Awards for three years. Sh*t was like the budget, not for me, but the budget just kept getting chopped and chopped and chopped.”
