HipHopDX: When you look at your hip-hop roots, you've taken a real different direction. As your status rose, you also began to make records with Nelly, Paris Hilton, and Jennifer Lopez. What prompted that change of direction?

Fat Joe: I grew. I got in this game to be a superstar, ya know?. I love underground hardcore hip-hop, and the majority of the new album is like that. But I also like songs that you see me perform on the MTV Awards, BET Awards. I try to make huge records, and sometimes when you do that, you have to take criticism. You live with those regrets, because people somehow want you to stay stuck in a time machine. They just want you to do the same shit; but when you start to do the same shit, they say that you're played out. You've just got to work and expand your craft.

HipHopDX: There have been accusations out there that you haven't taken care of Pun's family since he died, and people note his family selling Pun's things on eBay for money.

Fat Joe: We don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but I try to hold Pun's legacy with dignity and pride. I definitely taken care of them, and find ways for them to make money. At the end of the day—not opening up a big can of worms—but I've made sure they've made way more money than you'll ever make in your life, you know what I'm saying? If they spend it unwisely, they keep coming back, (but) I've got family and kids, too. These people have been rich, so if they spend their money unwisely when they get it,. And we go all out to get them money, and they keep coming back every year making an accusation that we don't take care of them, and then we go all out to get them more money, and then it every single time it keeps happening, it starts feeling like extortion. It is what it is. I definitely got his family more money than any normal human beings would be getting in their lifetime, so for them not to have money, it's spending money unwisely. That's the only way I can say that without disrespecting.

To read the review for Me Myself & I CLICK HERE