Biography

Fat Joe

Joseph Antonio Cartagena is famous by his professional name as Fat Joe. Joe is a popular American rapper who was born in august 19, 1970. He is also known by his another name as Fat Joe da Gangsta. He is involved in Terror Squad Entertainment and holding the position of CEO over there. He is also an active member of D.I.T.C. that is a very popular musical group. He is currently 45 years old and was born in Bronx, New York City of United States. He belongs from Cuban descent and grown up by the parents of Puerto Rican. He started stealing to make his family stand with proper economic condition and betterment for their life.

His stage name later was stated as Fat Joe because of his weight of body. His body structure can be easily seen within his songs as well as music he has been through. He was not good student in his schooling and liked by most of his teacher. Due to his very fat weight, he also hired a fat instructor so that he can lose his body weight. He also got another nickname as Skinny Joe. He completed his education and started joining to music industry for his further career.

He has lost 88 pounds of his body weight. The reason behind is fat weight was because of his unhealthy habit of eating snacks and junk food. He started avoiding those foods and started adapting the healthy food eating. His mother was from Cuban nationality that also might be the reason he was belonging from the mixed ethnicity. He is a father of 3 children and living a luxurious life within Miami.  He got married with his girlfriend after a very long affair and living a happy life giving his maximum of time to the family. He loves cooking the best dish for his children during the free time. He has also faced a legal issue regarding hitting a man. It was stated that the man was hit by basketball bat and stole a golden chain from the man and run away. He was another time arrested for getting into fight with another man. This charge was dropped on January 10, 2003 and for the next time he was also stood as a witness of 2 murdered. He has also stood for the LGBT belief and stated that those people should not hide themselves and stand for who they are. He has also been supporting them and has sung a song with collaboration with gay rappers.

This 6 feet 2 inch rapper is supposed with his net worth as 5 million US American dollars that can be stated as a successful amount with an increasing order as compared to the very previous years. He is satisfied with his salary and income he had achieved.