Fat Joe Reveals He's Lost Over 200 Pounds & Addresses His Depression Battle

On whether “Fat Joe,” the moniker he embraced for so long, still fits:

“Although I’ve gotten health conscious on another level, it wouldn’t make sense to change it. Now it’s my brand. It’s what I built.”

On losing six more friends to heart attacks following the unexpected death of his best friend and mentee, Big Pun (who’d also struggled with a heart condition), including another who died in his 20s:

“I went to his funeral and I felt like Ebenezer Scrooge. Like, I seen me. And I’m looking at his little daughter. She was the same age as my daughter. I said, ‘You gotta lose weight; otherwise you outta here.’”