The doorman at the very trendy Winter Haven Hotel on 14th street and Ocean Ave refused to give his name. All he could say was speak to Miguel Rodriguez, manager of the Winter haven South Beach 1400 Ocean Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139, but when we did all he could talk about was the undisclosed amount of damages that Fat Joe caused to his establishment.
After all, what might happen to him for alleging that complicated crimes of jealousy are committed by the so called Don of Rap?
``They just came out of no where and the fat guy yelled over at the other guy and said “You think you’re going to get on now?”‘
Then he looked at the broken European glass tables, now sitting in the grassy swale on the side of the hotel, and then at the broken chairs, straddling the property line with another neighboring establishment
``Truthfully, we're scared.''
Even though there were no criminal charges, Chief Donald W. De Lucca from the Miami Beach Police stated that the county might be pressing charges against Fat Joe as the antagonist in the whole situation. But the dilemma for the workers and the tourist on the very nice street in South Beach was a scary event for them to experience. Apparently what sparked the chair throwing; table crashing event was the all the recent exposure that a former member (Cuban Link) of the Grammy nominated Fat Joe’s Terror Squad has been receiving from signing a record deal. Apparently Fat Joe has been trying to so call black list the AWOL rapper since their business dealings went sour shortly after Big Pun’s death in 2000. Although this had previously been all speculation in the Hip-Hop world, it was confirmed to me by several sources yesterday that Fat Joe apparently has made numerous phone calls personally to prevent the success of his ex friend and rapping cohort (Cuban Link). Evidently on Thursday December 11th, 2003 Cuban Link was scheduled to promote his tour at the show Mun2 (the Roof) when Fat Joe made a personal call to the Roofs executive producer Anthony Perez asking Mr. Perez to cease the Cuban Link appearance. Mr. Perez granted the rappers request and Mr. Cuban Link was not allowed to perform. Mr. Perez, although not available for comments send this message through his assistant, “The station felt that at the moment Mr. Cuban Link and his music were not the appropriate materials to have on our program”.
JUST BE CAREFUL
''It's kind of an accepted practice,'' said Pop, director of operations for the South Beach hot spot Club Z-no’s, ``because there is no other outlet for these failing rappers to go they resort to extortion and blacklisting to prevent the success of others due to fear of their own demise. As Pops informed us they also put in a couple of death threats to his club going as far as, he believes, unsuccessfully torching the club last week. In the official police report the fire was classified as suspicious and is currently still under investigation. But the icing on the cake was after the show at Club Z-no’s at 1400 Ocean Avenue the Winter Haven Hotel.
Badui Musa, 23, from Kendall also witnessed the event and gave this detailed synopsis of the events that occurred: “One minute I was asking Cuban Link for an autograph and the next I am watching a glass table fly into the street from the hotel lobby, I just ran inside when Fat Joe arrived”. It seems that Fat Joe pulled up, in a still disputable, entourage of SUV’s and got out of the car telling Cuban Link that he would never be able to resurface in the rap industry. Cuban Link seeing the man whom he accuses of cutting his face several times wasted no time in attacking the Grammy nominee and sprinted like a rocket towards him. The two men whom were both accompanied by their entourages incited the violent melee, which turned into a real live gang rumble. What Fat Joe didn’t expect was that the Miami Police has the nations largest Hip-Hop Police Unit which was already informed and ready for a situation like this one noting that they knew that both rivaling rappers were in town promoting shows. It seems that the Miami Unit had been monitoring both crews and had expected an event of this caliber to take place. No room for another Biggie-Tupac state of affairs to ensue.
AN ISSUE OF TURF
Much like the Ja Rule/50 Cent drama that has left the once successful Ja Rule struggling and the once struggling 50 cent as the most prominent rapper in hip-hop today, Fat Joe and Cuban Link have their issues to resolve. It very well seems that these two have much on the line, especially when a Grammy nominated rapper will go to the extremes of threatening club owners and television execs, and even making a personal appearance to put a dent in someone else’s career, have we not learned from the Biggie-Tupac incident, apparently not.

Credit : Miami Herald


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