Fat Joe says things haven’t been the same between him and Justin Bieber since a moment back in 2014, when Joe claims he helped bail the pop star out of jail following his infamous arrest in Miami Beach.
On the May 29th episode of Joe & Jada, the rapper opened up about the incident, saying he got a call when a 19-year-old Bieber had been arrested on multiple charges. “It wasn’t no money. It was nothing,” Joe said about the bail amount. “Couple of hundred dollars, a thousand dollars. We used Rich Playa’s girl to bail him out. So we bail out Bieber, $100.” Officially, Bieber’s bail was listed at $2,500.
Joe says the real fallout came after Bieber called him to say thank you, then declared, “I’m a gangster now.” Joe says he immediately shut that down. “I said, ‘Yo, Justin. Listen, bro. You gotta stop. We don’t want you, gangster.’ We want you singing ‘Baby, baby.’”
The rapper believes that moment changed the course of their friendship. Instead of playing along, Joe gave him what he describes as “some real talk”—and it didn’t land well. “We don’t want you on the news. We don’t want you getting arrested. We want you to succeed. You’re Justin Bieber,” he told him. “My daughter worships you! We all love you! And that kinda messed up my relationship with him at that moment … He felt like I’m the fun killer. I f**ked up the moment.”
Though they’ve barely spoken since, Bieber has acknowledged that time in his life as a low point. Reflecting years later, he admitted, “I was hurting, unhappy, confused… angry at God.” Still, he said, “God was as close to me then as he is right now.”
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