His most commercially successful album to date was Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) (2001) it was certified platinum by the RIAA and internationally certified silver by the BPI, as well as reaching the top 100 on multiple music charts. Fat Joe's debut solo album, Represent, was released in 1993 and spawned the single 'Flow Joe', which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs. He began his music career as a member of hip hop group Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), then forged a solo career and set up his own label, Terror Squad, to which he signed Big Pun, Remy Ma, Tony Sunshine, Cuban Link, Armageddon, Prospect, Triple Seis and DJ Khaled as well as discover producers Cool & Dre. So you make a song, get your friend to write the lyrics, and another to help engineer the album to only get 20% while the producer, label, the singer, and marketing get the rest.Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper and actor from the Bronx, New York. Still, a big problem that doesn't get talked about enough is how a group of people will write the songs from the inception to demo then present it to producers/singers who make more in the end. Is it supposed to be someone working on a song from the ground up? Or is it someone who comes in at the last minute to say 'yes that sounds good'? Maybe it's whatever you want to call someone who an artist chooses as someone worth working with? He doesn't craft songs or anything, he just lets techies do the work while he passes/vetos different takes.īut really, producer is such a general title that who knows what the fuck it's supposed to mean anymore. Then I've heard that Rick Rubin, who has basically worked with everyone and looks like a hobo, that he's only a vocal producer. That he needs other producers well versed in the mechanics of making music to do it for him. What first comes to mind is Butch Walker, the guy who has done stuff for Avril Lavigne like 'My Happy Ending' and other works, implies in his book 'Drinking With Strangers' that Max Martin doesn't even know how to program music. I've heard this is a common thing in music when a producer becomes a 'celeb' or well-known producer in the industry.

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