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Fat Joe is a legendary artist who has helped bring about some classic tracks and albums. Overall, he is someone who is well-respected amongst his peers in the industry. While he has had feuds with some artists in the past, he has effectively put those feuds to rest. A good example of this is his relationship with 50 Cent. Although it used to be adversarial, the two seem to be on good terms. In fact, Fat Joe recently revealed that he thinks Get Rich Or Die Tryin is one of the greatest albums ever made.
That said, Joe is someone who is very much protective of his reputation. Overall, he doesn't want anyone to make him out to be someone he is not. Of course, this is very understandable. Sometimes, the internet can run amock with narratives, and it is hard to put out those kinds of fires. Well, Joe has been learning that the hard way with all of these fake Jeffrey Epstein lists. After appearing on a few of them, the artist has had enough. In the clip below, he went off on those who keep including him on these fake lists.
“They put out a fake list. It had me on it,” Joe said. “I don’t know that muthafucka. I don’t care if Epstein killed himself, didn’t — they killed him. Fuck him. They say don’t speak ill of the dead, but this guy, piss on his shit. He’s a piece of shit.” It is easy to see why Fat Joe would feel this way given who Epstein is. Epstein was accused of numerous sex crimes and was associated with some powerful people. For years, millions of people have been curious about who else Epstein may have worked with. There are lots of fake lists, and many have been duped time and time again.
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Steve Albini‘s bands Shellac and Big Black now have their catalogues available for listening on Spotify.
Albini passed away aged 61 earlier this month due to a heart attack. He was well known for being the producer of major albums such as Nirvana’s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’, Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ and more.
Back in 2022, the late producer took his music off the streaming platform. He had previously criticised the company for platforming anti-vaxxers such as Joe Rogan, and tweeted later that they were a “terrible company”, adding: “I don’t want to be part of their business”.
He later told Attack Magazine that Spotify was “one of the few places outside of record stores where recorded music can earn anything at all, and for bands [with] more generous, honest relationships with independent labels not part of the ownership trust, then the payments from Spotify, though meager per-play, can add up to a viable income stream. Nobody’s getting rich, but it could pay for the groceries.”
Now, it appears that Albini’s work with his bands Shellac and Big Black are now available to stream on Spotify. This include’s Shellac’s final album ‘To All Trains’, which was announced shortly before Albini’s death and was released last Friday (May 17).
Tributes have poured in for the legendary producer since the announcement of his death. Our NME obituary hailed him as “a lone voice of anti-industry punk scene ethics, even as he worked with major labels on some of the biggest names in alternative rock.”
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters dedicated a rendition of ‘My Hero’ to the late producer in Charlotte, North Carolina last week.
“Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd. “He left us much too soon. He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. I’m talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. Let’s sing this one for him.”
PJ Harvey also said he “changed the course of my life” during sessions for her 1993 LP ‘Rid Of Me’., and Joanna Newsom dedicated a version of her song ‘Cosmia’ to him, who engineered her 2006 album ‘Ys’. See further tributes here.
Elsewhere, Yourcodenameis:milo spoke to NME about how the 20th anniversary of their LP ‘All Roads To Fault’ was made all the more profound by the passing of Albini, who engineered the album.
Remembering their time with the punk and production legend, Lockey said: “We paid attention, saw everything he did, asked questions that he would gladly spend ages answering”.
“He once stopped the session and proceeded to give us a lecture on how the peanut built America. He schooled us in billiards, then showed us his favourite cooking shows that he’d recorded. It was all so natural and encouraging, we could do what the fuck we wanted and he’d capture it. That’s the deal, and we fucking loved it.”
