An Evening With Jose “Fat Joe” Cartagena with DJ Khaled

The son of Palestinian immigrants, Khaled Mohamed Khaled, professionally known as DJ Khaled, is a former radio personality (at Miami's WEDR 99 Jamz), YouTuber, and all-around music-industry mogul. He has produced dozens of chart-topping records, collaborating with artists such as Beyoncé, Jay Z, Nas, Kanye West, Drake, and Lil Wayne. No overnight success, Khaled wrote about his path to the top in The Keys: A Memoir.

Jose “Fat Joe” Cartagena is a rapper, actor, and entrepreneur. He released his first solo album, Represent, in 1993, founded the Terror Squad record label, and is perhaps best known for his platinum-selling album Jealous Ones Still Envy (JOSE) and hits like “Lean Back,” “What’s Luv?,” and “All the Way Up.” In The Book of Jose: A Memoir (‎Roc Lit 101), written with journalist and entrepreneur Shaheem Reid, the story of the hip-hop legend – who came of age in New York’s South Bronx during its darkest years of drugs, violence, and abandonment – unfolds. Across its pages is a tale of how he navigated that traumatizing landscape until he found a path to a different life through art, friendship, luck, and will. He faced the grim choice that defined a generation: to become predator or prey. He was both a hustler roaming record stores looking for beats and a budding rapper with a violent rep, until he was shot and almost killed. The Book of Jose is a thought-provoking story about a generation of survivors, the life-and-death choices they had to make, the friends they lost and mourned, and the lives they created from the ruins.