＂Fat Joe Changed My Life＂ - Scott Storch REVEALS The Shout Out That Made Him Hip-Hop’s TOP Producer
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Summary
Fat Joe joins Jemele to discuss his relationship with Fat Joe, his early days in the music business, and the beef he had with 50 Cent. Fat Joe also gives his take on the beef between 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.
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Who was the guy that was with Fat Show back in the days?
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this one's dedicated to the ones who never made it,
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I say this prayer to never respect you, but to...
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Someone's going to watch this and they're going to comment below,
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I made some of the biggest records for Fat Joe possible.
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It's kind of like unfair that he's not looked at as even bigger than he is.
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There's a lot of fucking weird things about the music business.
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I don't know your relationship with him these days,
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Obviously, it started with Tupac and Biggie and everything,
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When you have an opinion, sometimes people like...
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What's your take on just hip-hop beef in general?
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I mean, the biggest beef of the last year was Kendrick and Drake.
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He's like, I'm trying to throw you a bone, bro.
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I think, like, Lil Wayne and Birdman had some court stuff going on, suing.
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I mean, yeah, I mean, like, that's a label artist beef.
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That's not, like, rapper to rapper beef, even though the label was a rapper.
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I did a song for these two, for Wayne and Birdman, called You Ain't Know.
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It was like we were dressed up like gangsters and shit.
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But somebody else recently just tried to, like, fuck with Joe and take advantage of him.
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Somebody that was, like, a hype man for him claimed to be, like, the writer on songs and shit
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That house that Diddy, like, lives in, like, I was there to visit Tommy at one point.
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The first time I met Tommy, Sony Music Studios in New York, I was, like, a little kid in the
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And it was him talking to some, like, Asian guy that probably owned Sony or whatever.
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And he gave me the dirtiest look, like, he was about to fucking bite my ear off.
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And then later down the road, he invited me to come to that house when he first bought
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And the same party place at the edge of that property on Star Island that's, like, a temple,
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kind of gazebo kind of thing, whatever, it wasn't like that.
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And it looked like something that Sosa from fucking Scarface went out.
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And he's at this sick-ass, probably $300,000 table with a home phone.
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And he's, like, doing his thing out there with a cigar, showing me his cars and shit.
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Like, there was, like, you know, a lot of people, like, made, like, I mean, if I'm really
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going to talk, like, motherfuckers, like, they would find a way to take budgets down,
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He had a partner, Corey Rooney, that was producing.
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Like, these guys, they would charge, they would get all the shit.
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Like, they would eat up all the budgets of, like, the quarterly, like, budget that they
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You know, Sony Columbia, this, that, the other.
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One day, I had a house on Pine Tree Drive that I made into a studio.
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I had the board from Saturday Night Live, the SSL, or Neve, whatever it was.
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And I get a call from this guy, Kenny Commissar, who's a big record executive.
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So, J-Lo comes over, but now, it's like damn near a hurricane going on.
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And, like, I was like, let's listen to music in my Phantom.
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She's loving every fucking thing I'm playing with.
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I remember her hand on my leg, and, like, just, I was like, oh, fuck.
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J-Lo was sitting in my passenger seat loving my fucking music.
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Like, I'm a little fucking, like, Jewish white boy from fucking Sunrise and shit.
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At any rate, I could hear a knock on my window.
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They told me I was fired if I didn't get her out of there.
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Because there's only so many songs and the budget on these albums,
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and I was taking away real estate in that little game that these guys had going on
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that took Sony out for 200 and changed a million.
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I'm laying some secrets out for y'all today, bro.
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But, yeah, I was like, man, that's fucked up, bro.
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That shit was supposed to go to Tommy and Corey.
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That was one of my fucking, like, realizations that there's so much bullshit in fucking every industry.
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I mean, this cup right here probably has 10 hustles to the business behind me.
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And, like, everybody's, like, pointing the finger.
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He was, like, the only person who would call me and be like.
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I made money for all these people and they just walked away and said, Scott's a piece of shit.
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I bought, like, all my homies Bentleys out of love, like, because I wanted them to be like me.
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And they all disappeared when the party was over.
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It was, like, but that's a gift, too, because you get to see who your real friends are.
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And those two, three people that were left standing there making sure I was cool.
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Buster was one of them people that, I mean, we weren't that close, close, but he's also my first client when I left the roots that believed in me.
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I remember we were, like, going up and down, like, fucking all the labels in New York.
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Took this trip from Philly to New York and trying to play music for A&Rs.
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But, yeah, he's the only person that really fucking called and was like, bro, you all right, man?
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Out of everybody in the industry, when you were going through your worst of your worst and you were dealing with the recovery, the only person that reached out was Buster?
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He never, like, I mean, I didn't get the call, but, I mean, I knew he cared.
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Do you think that's because of you and your reputation, or is that just the business?
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I'm Scott Storch, and you might have seen me on the PBD podcast, and you might have some questions you want to ask me.
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I'm available on the Minette app, and you can ask me about pretty much anything.
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Music, industry stuff, you know, my life and my history, or, you know, anything, technical questions with music, equipment, whatever, production techniques, check it out.
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