Fat Joe says a million dollars is not a lot of money and he believes people only say it’s a lot of money because they haven’t made it yet.
Fat Joe made an appearance on Belaire CEO, Brett Berish’s Self Made series Season 2 Episode 3, where he talked about his career and the mistakes he made in the past including his reckless spending.
The New York rapper narrated a story of how he always thought one million dollars was a lot of money until he finally made the amount.
“I thought I was rich, It was falsely made it” replied Fat Joe, “Meaning that I grew up so poor, that I was brainwashed just like every kid in America from Woody Woodpecker on, that if you make a million dollars then you could buy a f***ing cloud if you want.”
He continued
“So you tell everybody that you’re a millionaire and that’s it. You can buy this whole f**ing block and the mountains. So I got a million dollars and I’m eating $30,000 worth of dinner every night with 40 m**herf***ers with me, champagnes, lobsters, steaks, every f**ing night for like 15 years straight.”
Said Fat Joe
“You think you’re a millionaire and you don’t even check the account. I’m a millionaire until you go in there one day, and they tell you you have no money and you walk out of there with your hands tight. When the teller who usually gives you 50 cash every time you walk in will be like Joe, something ain’t right. It happened on 161st across the street from the Kuchi Frito by Yankee Stadium. My hands were tight. I walked out of there I was like ‘I thought we was rich’.”
“I had to go back at it again. Truthfully, it happened to me about three times in my life when I went to the bank account and it said zero. Right after that, I went back and made what’s love and I had like another $5 million in my bank account. We kept popping, doing all the crazy s**t, private planes, and one day I walked into another bank and they told me you ain’t got no money”.
Fat Joe also told Brett Berish that if he could go back in time and change everything, he would, “I would change everything”.
