The Terror Squad rapper received New York’s Key to the City on Tuesday August 20th, presented by Mayor Eric Adams during a free concert in the Bronx.
Joey Crack was performing at the Up NYC concert at Orchard Beach’s in his hometown of the Bronx when Mayor Eric Adams surprised him on stage with the Key to the City. Adams gave Joe his flowers for everything from his music to his philanthropic endeavours. Fat Joe thanked his family, friends, Mayor Adams and several Hip-hop pioneers in a speech at the concert. N.O.R.E. was one of the celebrities who attended the event. Fat Joe said he never thought he’d receive New York’s Key to the City. He was happy to be proven wrong. Fat Joe told the crowd:
“I gotta thank the pioneers, From Melle Mel, Mr. Ness to KRS-One … If there was never a KRS-One, there never would’ve been a Fat Joe. My whole life I been trying to be KRS-One. LL Cool J, Heavy D and the list goes on. I wanna shout out everybody here because we in the Bronx.”