My Gut Reaction: Fat Joe & Remy Ma - Plata O Plomo (February 17, 2017)

So real quick, for the folks who may be newer to the blog or might have returned to it after I finally remembered my Facebook password: Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena is one of many artists whose career I’m following here on Hip Hop Isn’t Dead. However, unlike nearly everyone else in the sidebar, I’m looking at his body of work in reverse chronological order. I’m mostly doing this as a lark: I think it’s kind of funny to review someone’s catalog this way, as though I’ll be able to pinpoint the exact moment where his career went off the rails. The problem is that Fat Joe’s still actively making music, so while I may be going backwards in time, he keeps dropping new stuff that I have to eventually work in if I plan on ever crossing him off of my project list.

Which brings us to the subject of today’s post, Plata o Plomo.