Fat Joe: Short Biography, Net Worth & Career Highlights

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Joseph Antonio Cartagena, to the public known by his stage name of Fat Joe or Fat Joe da Gangsta, is an American rap artist, voice actor as well as an actor, born on 19 August 1970 in The Bronx, New York City, to parents of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
A well-known rap artist, how rich is Fat Joe, as of mid-2017? According to celebrity dot money, his total net worth is estimated to be over 15 million dollars. which may include assets such as his Ferrari 360 Modena, the value of which is 182 000 dollars, and his Rolls Royce Phantom, which cost 470 000 dollars.
Inspired to become a rap artist by Big Pun, Fat Joe started rapping when he was a teenager, and eventually joined a hip-hop group known as “D.I.T.C”. When he signed a record deal with Relativity Records, he soon became known for his East Coast gangsta rap style, when releasing his debut album “Represent” in 1993, which was followed by “Jealous One’s Envy”. Even though Fat Joe kept coming out with studio albums and collaborations, it wasn’t until his sixth studio album called “All or Nothing” was released in 2005 that he had real success, when it peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200, and sold more than 100,000 copies during its debut week.
That same year, Fat Joe started his feud with 50 Cent, which only brought him more public exposure and attention from the media. Fat Joe is almost as well known for his infamous feud with fellow rap artist 50 Cent. The conflict between the two rappers started in 2005, when 50 Cent released his second studio album called “The Massacre”, which featured a song “Piggy Bank”, filled with negative rhymes directed towards Fat Joe, as well as at Jadakiss, Ja Rule, Kelis, Sheek Louch and Lil’ Kim. Consequently, Fat Joe and 50 Cent exchanged several offensive remarks about each other on live television, and did not end their feud until 2014, after the death of their mutual friend Chris Lighty.
Aside from his conflict with 50 Cent, Fat Joe established himself in the music industry with “Lean Back”, a hip hop single on which he collaborated with “Terror Squad” and Remy Ma, and which became one of the most popular songs played on radio stations in 2004 and even inspired the creation of several remixes performed by Lil Jon, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Jadakiss, and Chamillionaire. Not only did the single top the music charts, but it also won two Source Hip-Hop Music Awards, namely for Single of the Year and Best Female Rap Collaboration.
In addition to being a rap artist, Fat Joe made his film debut in Richard Cummings’ “Thicker Than Water”, in which he co-starred with Mack 10, Ice Cube, Big Pun and other rappers. Fat Joe also starred in “Prison Song” with Q-Tip and Mary J. Blige, “Empire”, and voiced a character in the animated film “Happy Feet”, all adding to his bank account.
In his personal life, Fat Joe is married to Lorena Catagena; they have two sons and a daughter, and now live in New Jersey. He served a sentence of four months for tax evasion in 2013, having previously been arrested for assault plus firearms offences, and has an uncanny and unfortunate knack of being around when homicides and other assaults occur.