“It’s a lot of woke society or something going on these days and Twitter and all that I guess they don’t understand where I come from, where I was born, or how I was raised or how I lived my whole entire life," he continued. "...We know that the record states that this is a negative word and I wish we never used it. You know? and I try my best...really seriously I been trying to stop, but I been saying this since I was born.”
It's a topic Fat Joe has discussed fairly regularly in some fashion over the years.
"Let's speak about Latinos not being Black," he said a few years ago on Ebro In The Morning. "Latinos are Black. In Cuba, at one time, there was eight million Cubans. Five million, unfortunately, were slaves," he said. "Three million were actual Cubans, and they integrated and had babies — same thing with Puerto Rico when you go to Loíza. And when you talk about Santeria, that came from the motherland, Africa. Sometimes, Latinos may even identify themselves with African and black culture more than Black people. This ain't no crazy thing. Fat Joe ain't on crack. He know what he talking about."
