Fat Joe Tells Story Of How Drake Begged To Be On The "All The Way Up" Remix

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Drizzy apparently FaceTimed him three times in one night, which shows just how much he wanted to body that beat. Why didn't it pan out?

"All The Way Up" is one of the biggest rap hits out of the 2010s, and it came from legends of the 2000s. Moreover, it seems like a lot of people wanted their piece of the pie on the remix, including none other than Drake. Fat Joe recently revisited this while on the Rap Radar podcast, and explained why it didn't end up panning out. It's kind of wild to think of how much bigger this song could've been if the 6 God was on it around the time he was really starting to become the biggest. Still, everything happens for a reason, but it seems like this instance closed some doors for future collaborations.

"Drake FaceTimed me three times trying to get on 'All The Way Up,'" Fat Joe remarked to the podcast co-hosts. "Three times. Middle of the night. 'Send me the instrumental, send me the instrumental, send me the instrumental.' I wish I would've got Drake on there, right? But the fact of all the history of me and Jay-Z, I was like 'It gotta be just me and Jay-Z.'

Fat Joe Explains Why Drake Wasn't On "All The Way Up" Despite His Begging

"I said, because, anybody who really knows- you know I've been doing this for hip-hop my whole life," Fat Joe continued. "I gave my life to hip-hop for real, for real. Anybody who truly understands, this is the moment. It ain't just gon' be a posse cut, it ain't gon' be... you know. And this the last time Drake ever asked me to do a song. But... nah, man! Drake gotta forgive me. I'm like 'Damn, man, please!'

"But, yeah, it's true," the New York legend concluded. "'All The Way Up' was that big that we had the best, the biggest... You know, 50 Cent was- everybody you can f***in' name who's a monster was hittin' us up like 'Yo, send the Pro Tools.'" For more news and the latest updates on Drake and Fat Joe, stay posted on HNHH.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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