Terror Squad boss Fat Joe recently sat down with the “Drink Champs” podcast and revealed that he turned over the rights to the late Big Pun’s music to his family.
After an almost two decade long dispute of the later rapper’s catalog, ‘Joey Crack’ talked about when he turned the rights over to the family. “He passed away, I did something nobody ever did and I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but I don’t think Puff Daddy gave the rights to Biggie back, I don’t think they gave the rights to Tupac back.”
He also stated that, “So I said, ‘OK, you saying Fat Joe’s jerking you... [he’s] taken everything. Take everything, it’s not a problem, everybody got whatever they want, get everything. Fat Joe doesn’t own a dollar, no attach[ment]. I don’t have nothing to do with Big Pun. That’s what y’all wanted.”
Fat Joe discovered Big Pun in the early 90’s and quickly became his right hand man within the Terror Squad. Working with Joe, Big Pun produced major hits, including a GRAMMY nomination, and becoming the first solo Hip-Hop records by a Latino artist to go platinum.