Fat Joe not too long ago opened up about how conflicts with different artists impacted his profession and price him main enterprise offers. On a current episode of Complex’s Sneaker Shopping, the Bronx rapper revealed that each Air Jordan and Reebok offers fell aside within the mid-2000s due to his well-known feuds with 50 Cent and Jay-Z.

He defined {that a} confrontation with 50 Cent on the 2005 MTV Video music Awards performed a job in Air Jordan passing on a collaboration. Fat Joe says Michael Jordan personally known as him to elucidate the scenario. “Yo, Big Joe, you know, I’m not with controversy. Maybe we look at this in the future,” Jordan reportedly instructed him.

Reebok, which had provided a multi-million-dollar sneaker deal, additionally withdrew after an government realized Fat Joe was not on good phrases with Jay-Z. “Reebok had approached me and was like, ‘Yo, we want to do a sneaker with you for millions.’ I caught the squeeze play cause Hov was over there and 50 Cent,” he mentioned. “They shut it down. They was just like, ‘Yo, we won’t do business with you if you give this guy a sneaker.’ That’s part of the karma. It’s part of the ins and outs. I’ve done it to other guys. It came back to me.”

Outside of enterprise setbacks, Fat Joe can be dealing with authorized challenges. In June, his former hype-man Terrance Dixon filed a $20 million lawsuit, claiming he witnessed the rapper interact in unlawful habits, together with sleeping with minors and utilizing intimidation techniques. Fat Joe has denied the allegations and addressed them on social media. “I’ve never let anyone on the streets extort me, so how would I ever let a crooked attorney and a coward ex-hype man extort me?? I’m from the Bronx!”

These experiences spotlight the prices of high-profile rivalries and authorized battles within the music trade. Fat Joe’s story exhibits that even for seasoned artists, the alternatives made in conflicts and private relationships can have lasting results on each profession alternatives and private life.