Fat Joe has had a rap career since 1992, and the hip-hop OG says he just doesn’t understand some of the music that some of the newer rappers are making these days.
“I encourage the youth and I love the youth, [but] I’ve sat in traffic and [heard the music] — I felt like they were playing devil music right next to me,” he told Complex. “I’m like, ‘Yo, what the f*ck? That’s Hip Hop?!’ They got some weird sh*t going on.”
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He continued, “I f*ck with them, I’m always gonna salute them. I don’t know how they spiraled into this particular sound. Hip Hop’s so diverse — we got Lauryn Hill, we got Biz Markie, you got Eric B. and Rakim, you got Nas… You’re not gonna open this sht and hear the same sh*t.”
Drill is one of the fastest growing genres to come out of New York, but Fat Joe says he will not be hopping on the new wave. Instead, he is looking to collaborate with Babyface.