If you're surprised Fat Joe has Trump high tops, visit an otolaryngologist
Is being a sneakerhead more important than standing by your politics?
I’m not even slightly a sneakerhead. Every blue moon I run across a shoe that makes me do a double take and buy it, but my shoe collection will never ever look like Desus Nice’s, who was known for making his shoe game his virtual meeting background on “Desus & Mero.” (My mother can easily match his collection with heels, but the shoe craze did not pass down through the generations.)
I know shoe enthusiasts are common in the hip-hop industry. I knew who Jahking Guillory was two years before he starred in “The Chi,” primarily because I liked his 2016 film “Kicks.”
Guillory may not be as die-hard of a sneakerhead as Missy Elliott, Drake, DJ Khaled and a bunch of people who Teyana Taylor gifted with her Teyana Taylor x Air Jordan 1 High Zoom Comfort 2 “A Rose From Harlem” shoes, including Lebron James’ wife Savannah James. Still, I expect to hear their shoe stories.
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But I slept through Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena being a sneakerhead. Without anyone asking him, he voluntarily and without any form of solicitation modeled the Trump high tops he just bought. These antics remind me of why I could never be a fan of the “Lean Back” rapper, even if I do know the words to his Remy Ma collaborations.
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For a non-black person who thinks he’s black and says the n-word so much you’d swear he was auditioning for the next slave movie, I expect nothing less. It doesn’t take an otolaryngologist to hear and comprehend a pattern of words coming out of his mouth over the years.
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In fact, I already thought he was supporting Trump, along with the 28% of conservative Latinos who voted for Trump. (Polling firm Latino Decisions argued that number was much lower at 18%.)
No matter how much Fat Joe listens to black women like Stephanie Mills “I Will Survive,” he keeps showing black folks he doesn’t want us to survive. And his love for black folks is about as believable to me as Shaggy’s artificial intelligence images of Trump hanging out on somebody’s front porch.