The Los Angeles Dodgers kicked off the first game of the 2024 World Series with a performance by Ice Cube, a passionate fan and composer of some of the most iconic LA songs of all time. In short, everyone loved it, even the New York Yankees, who attempted to replicate, nee one up Cube with a local performer of their own — Bronx native, Fat Joe.
He performed a medley of hits including “Lean Back,” “All the Way Up” and the Ja Rule track “New York,”
His performance was roundly criticized from all corners of the internet, by Yankees fans and by the Dodgers utility player, Kike Hernandez, who said “We didn’t need to play because after that performance, we had already won.”
Fat Joe Responds To Dodgers Criticism
Recently on the “7 PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony” podcast, Fat Joe addressed the World Series criticism with a measured and embarrasment-inducing response.
“It’s a dream come true, I grew up five blocks away. It was one of the biggest honors of my life to go perform at the World Series for the Yankees. I don’t give a f—.”
“These guys won, and they cursing me out every chance they get a microphone,” he said. “It’s the craziest s—.”
“I don’t care what they said,” Joe said laughing. “I’m entertainment, I don’t play the game. If we’d had won I’d have been the savior of the Yankees. What do you want me to do?”
With these comments, Joe comes out looking like a classy guy, whose team lost but understands the bigger meaning of sports, while the Dodgers look like petulant children who don’t know how to win with grace. It certainly is not becoming of a first-class organization.
It is a kin to those Yankees cry babies that gripped the wrist of Mookie Betts in a foolish attempt to salvage a bit of whatever fragile sense of self they have cobbled together around a sports franchise.