Fat Joe regrets not signing Eminem when he had the chance 6 Times.
Eminem is now considered as one the greatest Hip-Hop Artist of all time, But Rapper Fat Joe may have not seen that type of greatness in Marshall in his early days when he had the chance to sign him and he never did. In Eminem’s early days, he approached Fat Joe many times and gave him so many demos and he didn’t sign him.
Fat Joe is the founder and CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, which primarily released his own music but also had success with DJ Khaled and others. Back in 2007, the label saw guest performances by Akon and Lil Wayne but has been mostly quiet since 2013.
In the latest interview with South China Morning Post this past weekend, American Rapper and CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, Fat Joe Reveals that once he had the chance to sign Marshall 6 Times and he turned him down every time and now it’s his biggest regret. On asking Do he have any regrets, Fat Joe said, “Man I got so many regrets, The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos, Six different times he approached me and I didn’t sign him. Shame on me“.
“To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love… I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me. Coming from the Bronx, too.”
Joe, on the other hand, doesn’t concentrate on missing out on Eminem, instead of focusing on his own achievements: “I’m so blessed to have a career. You’ve got to understand this: there are 10 million people trying to rap and the only one makes it, and the fact that even when someone makes it, most of the time, 99 percent, they are a one-hit-wonder.”
After turning down by Fat Joe, Eminem went on to sign with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment in 1998 and the rest is history.
While the Bronx rapper may have let the big one get away, he may take comfort in the fact that he did wind up signing Christopher “Big Pun” Rios, another rap icon. Pun, who joined Terror Squad the same year Em and Dre teamed up, released his iconic first album Capital Punishment the following year. The album cemented the Puerto Rican MC’s status as one of the game’s most accomplished lyricists, and it went platinum, becoming him the first latino hip-hop artist to do so. Pun passed away in February 2000 from a deadly heart attack.
Despite the fact that Fat Joe didn’t sign Marshall, they both have worked together in a Remix of “Lean Back” a few years ago, which also featured Lil Jon, Mase, and Remy Ma.
