Lance “UN” Rivera challenged Fat Joe’s story about a notorious big collaborative album and asked for proof.
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Fat Joe is accused of exaggerating the claims of Biggie’s former business partner and close confidant Lance “Un” Rivera, who said he had never heard of such a project.
In a recent appearance on the Jada and Joe Show, Fat Joe said he and Biggie recorded five to eight tracks for an unreleased collaborative album before the death of the Brooklyn rapper in 1997.
Joe claims the songs were put on hold because many of the songs target Tupac Shakur in the competition on the East Coast West Coast. He said the record’s disrespectful tone made him feel that they “should never see the light of the day.”
But Rivera co-founded Undeas Entertainment with Biggie and helped launch Junior Mafia, but he didn’t buy it.
“I love Fat Joe, Fat Joe is my guy,” Rivera told the Conversation Art. “I love the ‘Jada and Joe’ show, and now I know why they’re running with Joe’s Cap King. I’m Call Cap. I don’t even know. I don’t know, because I’m not sure, right? If there was a real legal album, I’d have heard of it.”
Rivera explains that Biggie’s recording habits didn’t make people in their inner circle aware of the full-length collaboration.
“I wouldn’t hear them doing songs together because at dad’s house, if Big was going to the studio, you might get a verse, or you might not get a verse, depending on his mood and how much money is in your pocket.” “You know what I’m talking about? Because he’s a, ‘How much weeds do you get’ type, you know what I’m talking about? But my name is Fat Joe. Show me the receipt.”
Fat Joe has not yet publicly responded to Rivera’s comments.
Joe said in a previous interview that some of these tracks may have been destroyed after Biggie and Tupac’s deaths, citing radical content.
The infamous Big was killed in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, just weeks before his release.
