Fat Joe Defends Himself After Calling DJ Khaled the ‘Quincy Jones of Hip-Hop’

Fat Joe Defends Himself After Calling DJ Khaled the ‘Quincy Jones of Hip-Hop’

Fat Joe is receiving a tad bit of heat, after comparing DJ Khaled to Quincy Jones.

Quincy Jones

Fat Joe referred to DJ Khaled as the “Quincy Jones of hip-hop” while on N.O.R.E. on his ‘Drink Champs’ podcast.

DJ Khaled

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Only Non Black NWORD spewing folks like @fatjoe Fat Joe consider DJ Khaled the Quincy Jones of HipHop

Let’s be clear, every Khaled album is trash ? pic.twitter.com/fJDUgOUj5A

— KingRilla_Perry ?? (@KingrillaPerry) May 15, 2021

Fat Joe’s comments received mixed reactions on social media.

Fat Joe: DJ Khaled is the Quincy Jones of Hip Hop

Black Twitter: pic.twitter.com/QAxCfZxdis

— ‘03 Randy Moss (@jake_thecap) May 16, 2021

FAT JOE PUTTING DJ KHALID UP, IN, & OVER QUINCY JONES!!!! pic.twitter.com/82Mssnexqd

— Daniel Hopkins (@DanielH35176720) May 16, 2021

Fat Joe: DJ Khaled is The Quincy Jones Of Hip-Hop…

Me: He said this about 30 Grammy winning, 80 Nominations, MJ Thriller Producing Q?

Fact: Hip Hop and other genres have sampled #QuincyJones more times than I can count.

Me and #BlackTwitter Looking at his ass like ?? pic.twitter.com/m1Yf8tDMgE

— Dr. Bedelia Brown Ph.D. (@BedeliaB) May 16, 2021

Romeo and bow wow talking about a versus , and Fat Joe calling DJ Khalid the quincy Jones of hip-hop? Nigga Twitter can wait till Monday pic.twitter.com/n0rolDxojx

— cameron earland (@sneakerflavored) May 16, 2021

So. THE Quincy Jones is the literal “Quincy Jones” of hip-hop. And I respect DJ Khaled and Fat Joe, respectively. Bc of Quincy Jones we have the range of music that we have. pic.twitter.com/pOWzuPPt3C

— ?? Aisis ?? (@AyeshaMoore) May 16, 2021

For the last fucking time DJ Khaled is not the Quincy Jones of Hip Hop. I have issues with Quincy but hell naw. Fat Joe stop it. pic.twitter.com/u5ItPiQjjs

— Toni Carter (@ToniLaNae) May 15, 2021

After receiving some backlash, Fat Joe wrote on social media,

“All these back seat drivers Monday morning quarterbacks always got an opinion but can’t do it themselves shit crazy.” Joe adds, “To me the term Quincy jones of this time was used in reference to the work khaled has put in years and years of hit obviously there’s only one Quincy but f*ck it tune in tonight EXPLOSIVE lol.”

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