Fat Joe says he deserved a Grammy in 2017.
Fat Joe is one of the legends in the rap game, and like many hip-hop greats, the rapper has never won a Grammy Award. The rapper was nominated six times but went on to lose the accolade every time.
Joey Crack sat down with GQ for a new interview, where he stated that he deserved the Grammy in 2017 for his Remy Ma and French Montana collab “All The Way Up”. The song was nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, but lost to Chance The Rapper’s “No Problem” featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz, and Drake’s “Hotline Bling” respectively.
“I should have won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance 2017,” he said. “Chance is a cool guy. But the Grammy should have come my way. “All the Way Up” was bigger. Not only that, if people understood the culture, Remy and I were like Robin Hood and Cinderella. They could have done the ‘hood a favor and given “All the Way Up,” the f**kin’ Grammy.”
He continued, “They gave it to Chance the Rapper—and for what? I’m not going to be disrespectful, but they gave it to him for a record I don’t even know no more. This is my point. I don’t even know what he beat us with. Do you understand? Same thing happened to us with “Lean Back.” We lost Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group in 2005 to, what’s these guys? What’s the guy with the girl, Fergie?”
“Black Eyed Peas with “Let’s Get It Started”?,” responds GQ. “Come on, bro. I don’t know what song,” says Joe. “How does it beat “Lean Back”? And “All the Way Up”? We came out of jail. We made it. It’s a miracle. It was their responsibility to say, You know what? Let’s give the underdogs the Grammys.”
Joe also remembered when he had first met Pun, whom he had referred to as his younger brother. “I was brought up so tough. My heart was black. I came from selling drugs, and doing all that,” he said. “I didn’t trust nobody. I was going up against animals. So when I met Pun for the first time, he was telling me his life story. I was just like, ‘Yo, why is this guy telling me all his f**kin’ business?’ That’s not what we do. But he just wanted to belong. He was a real dude, and he just wanted a crew.”
Check out the full interview here.
