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Fat Joe
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Bronx-born, of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, Joseph Cartagena has made a virtue — and an industry — of his plus-size tailor requirements and big-man street rep. The word "heavy" truly characterized his arrival in the rap arena, when he styled himself as Fat Joe da Gangsta and kept it hardcore on his Diamond D-produced 1993 debut album, [i]Represent[/i]: check out "Flow Joe." The future pop-crossover collaborator (with the likes of J-Lo and Ashanti) was impossible to discern at that early stage, but as the millennium came and went, Fat Joe mastered the art of mixing the light with the dark. Dig around these Essentials and you'll find a stellar line-up of associates (Nelly, Eminem, Diddy, Lil Wayne to name but four), a gold-plated array of producers (Scott Storch, the Hitmen, Irv Gotti), and all the hallmarks of a modern-day hip-hop survivor.