Fat Joe reveals his conversation with Lil Wayne when he visited him in Prison.
Fat Joe was the latest guest on Red Table Talk for an interview with Jada Pinkett Smith, where the rapper recalled visiting Lil Wayne in Prison, and getting a piece of advice from him when he served jail.
“I heard Lil Wayne gave you some advice before you went to jail,” asks Jada in the promo. “One of the saddest things I ever did was go visit Lil Wayne in jail,” responds Joe about Wayne, who served 8 months at Rikers Island in 2010 for gun charges. “Not only that, but they had him chained up. Lil Wayne. They had him in shackles and all that. They had him like he was the killer.”
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“So. I went to go see him. He’s my brother, man. He lives across the street from me in Miami — and so I’m walking into the jail, and I get a phone call. It’s Lil Wayne,” he said about the conversation before he went to federal prison for tax invasion in 2013. “I was like, ‘Yo Wayne, what’s up?’ And he was like ‘I’m just telling you right now, be humble.’ And I said, ‘Well how do you do it?’ and he said, ‘Just be humble bro.’” “If you’ll be humble they’ll respect you,” he added.
In addition to living close by, Fat Joe and Lil Wayne have a long-standing creative partnership that has resulted in songs like “Make It Rain,” “Pullin,” DJ Khaled’s “We Takin Over,” and others.
The book Gone ‘Til November, written by Lil Wayne and includes diary entries during his time in jail, was published in 2016. During this time, he wedded two male convicts and had visits from celebrities like Kanye West, Diddy, and Drake.
Lil Wayne, meantime, was imprisoned on gun-related charges for eight months on Rikers Island in 2010. He admitted guilt to unlawfully possessing a firearm at the time in relation to a pistol that was discovered on his tour bus in 2007.
