Last week on their show, Fat Joe and Jadakiss delivered an off-the-cuff history lesson on hip-hop’s wildest era—trading stories about DMX and Big Pun that felt more like scenes from a movie than real life.
Joe set the tone with a story from a Brooklyn gas station after a show: “It’s me, him, and Pun… Some dude comes through with chains, and X was like, ‘Yo, hold up y’all.’ Walked over, took the guy’s chains, came back like nothing happened.”
He was already a star, but still moved like it was ’94. Fame didn’t change a thing.
Jadakiss followed up with a wild memory from the John Blaze video shoot. Big Pun had just gotten a stashbox installed in his car and wanted to test it—so he let off a shot, stashed the weapon, got pulled over… and walked away clean. “I said, ‘This dude Pun is crazy,’” Jada laughed.
Joe went deeper, painting Pun as a genius with no filter. He could’ve lived anywhere. He had $20,000 dogs, luxury Benzes, and money to burn—but he stayed right in the Bronx. Still riding through the block, wilding out with water guns like nothing had changed.
“These guys were geniuses on the mic,” Joe said, “but when it came to regular shit, sometimes they [Pun and N.O.R.E.] had no sense. I’d always be the one telling them, ‘Y’all gonna go to jail!’ They called me the fun killer. But I was trying to save their lives.”
