Fat Joe |
Tue. September 16.2003 5:26 PM EDT |
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VH1: Scarface, tell me, how many times have you seen it and why?
FAT JOE: Scarface, I’ve seen it at least a million times. It’s just addictive man. It’s the ultimate gangsta flick. The ultimate come up story. Everyone
VH1: What would you say is your favorite hip hop reincarnation of the film? FAT JOE: I think we captured it best at Big Pun’s “I’m not a Playa”. We had the background, we had Chi Chic, who’s one of his right hand mans in the video also, and we re-enacted the shoot out scene in the club, I mean that was great. I also like Jay-Z, the Mariah Carey Jay-Z video, where Jay-Z was like in the hot tub, and she was in the mirror fixing her make-up and all that, that was really, really hot too. So a lot of people touched up on it, but I think those two videos captured it the best. VH1: Whose idea was it for that? FAT JOE: I mean, I would think it was my idea, I definitely think it was my idea, but I’m not sure b/c we all love Scarface, so somebody else could of come up with it also. VH1: You pay homage to Tony Montana in “This Shit Is Real” and “Say Word” Why? FAT JOE: Actually, Joe Montana is my brother who past away, whose real name is Anthony Crestfall, and he was killed in the Bronx, and he like my best friend of all time, and ever since Scarface came out he always thought he was Tony Montana, Scarface. And he was crazy just like him, ya know what I’m sayin’? So ever since he past, we pay homage to him, and always dedicate songs to him. But ya know we’re actually talking about Anthony Crestfall, who was the Scarface of our hood. VH1: How about in Loyalty when you choose to make the reference about blowing up the kids? FAT JOE: Ya it’s crazy but, ya, ya know Scarface the movie it’s like the code of the streets man. Everybody who thinks they gangsta or are gangsta live by that movie, word. VH1: So, Tony Montana is a true gangsta? FAT JOE: Tony Montana is an ultimate gangsta. He’s the true warrior. Ya know. Definitely the violence in the movie attracted a lot of people in the hood. The money, money, sex and power…and that’s what the movie was based all on…beautiful Miami…and ya see somebody coming from nothing and becoming something. VH1: Discuss the different scenes and styles that have influenced the past 20 years of rap style. FAT JOE: Wow forget it, everybody, there was a moment, maybe 4 or 5 years ago where people started dressin’ in their videos like Tony Montana everybody got the ya know he shirts over the suits. People wearing the linen suits with the cigars. Just a style . Scarface the rapper has influenced hip hop like no other movie. Scarface is an impact on hip hop. VH1: Do you think the morals of hip hop and those of the gangster lifestyle parallel? FAT JOE: Definitely. We all commin’ up for the street. We all commin’ up from not having nothin’ and we all can relate to the Tony Montana story, to the Scarface story. When they all feel like they have nothin’ and they about to get whatever they can by any means necessary. So that’s why we relate to Scarface so much. VH1: Are people more taken in by him being the underdog on the rise or by him being the big dog with power? FAT JOE: I think it began as the underdog, and people loved him for being the underdog and how he rose to power and status… people… ya know, that’s never the story, you never see that in movies, you always see the good guy win. You always see the guy trying to be something and then they spoil his plans…and this movie here…this movie made, actually glorified the bad guy, the underdog. So its like ya know, people felt like finally the bad guy’s winning although he got his head popped off at the end, the way he went out, he killed about a hundred people before he got his head popped off, its almost like the bad guy won. People never see the villain win. VH1: Did the Latin element have any special significance to you? FAT JOE: The Latin flavor had a lot to do with me and all the Latino, you know, very rarely do we see any movies based on Latinos, but to see a movie where a Latino dude came to prominence he became great, he was the heroine. You see everybody else. You see the black kids, white kids, you see everybody else loving this dude right here you felt like you representing the latinos, you know so, you definetly felt happy that he was latino…the latino flava…with the girls, with the music, ..you know what, it was incredible. |
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