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- The two oversized talents formed a strong friendship and working relationship. Inspired by a comic book character, he took the new name, Big Punisher, and joined the Terror Squad, a group of Latino rappers associated with Fat Joe. Fat Joe even helped negotiate Big Pun’s contract with Loud Records.
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After changing his stage name to Big Punisher, Rios met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapper Fat Joe in 1995 and made his commercial debut on Fat Joe's second album, Jealous One's Envy, in addition to appearing on the song, "Watch Out".
Nov 17, 2022 · Witnessing him introduce the world to the rap sensation Big Pun, and then, after Pun’s tragic passing, develop himself into a true mega rap star in the 2000s.
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Fat Joe remembers the very moment he met Big Pun and how it changed everything for the both of them.Don't miss Unsung At Wednesday at 8/7c on TV One!
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In the latest episode of The Danza Project, Fat Joe details the significant role in shaping Latin culture on a mainstream level, his relationship with Big Pun, and how they became the faces of ...
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Nov 19, 2022 · He blames Pun’s ill health, which led to his death in 2000, on youth and ignorance. “We just didn’t know no better,” says Joe, who went into a two-year-long depression after Pun’s death.
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Dec 13, 2023 · Fat Joe, who would go on to sign Pun to his record label, had already begun the wave of Latino rap on the East Coast that would soon grow and flourish. It was Big Pun, though, who eclipsed his mentor’s influence with the release of his 1998 debut Capital Punishment, the only LP he would drop in his lifetime.
Oct 13, 2022 · It was during the recording of his second studio album that Joe would meet and become musically influenced by Big Pun, another Latino rapper from the Bronx. At the time, there weren’t that many Latino rappers on the scene, and Big Pun would become a sort of protégé of Fat Joe.
