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Joell Ortiz Talks Big Pun Drama, Blasts Cuban Link

Posted Jun 16th 2011 11:30AM by Theo Bark
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Slaughterhouse rapper Joell Ortiz has finally addressed the recent ill will regarding his 'Big Pun's Back' freestyle, which received unexpected criticism from Big Pun's widow, Liza Rios, and several of the late rapper's associates.

While the Brooklyn rapper claims that he intended the song to be a tribute to Pun's memory, Rios and former Terror Squad members Cuban Link and Tony Sunshine took issue with Joell's failure to "check in" with the family before he announced himself the "new Christopher Rios of rap."

In an interview with Funkmaster Flex on Tuesday (June 14), Joell responded to the criticism he's received over the track, stating that, while he respects Pun's legacy, he doesn't need to ask permission to pay tribute to the fallen rapper.

"To be honest with you, I was really confused because I've been bigging up her late husband since the beginning of my career. This is not the first time I've ever done a tribute," an exasperated Joell told Flex of Liza Rios' vitriolic response to his song. "I thought everything was all smooth between us. I thought that was peoples, and I kinda feel like she still is peoples! I'm still confused. This is the same woman that asked me to perform for her husband on stage with his urn next to me.... Rest in peace, the dude's urn was on stage and she told me how honored she was that I'm keeping the Latin hip-hop thing moving and 'My husband would have been so proud of you' and then here we are a few years later and she says 'How dare me.' I don't get it."

Joell went on to address Tony Sunshine and Cuban Link's comments with signfigantly less apprehension, plainly stating, "If Cuban Link wants to talk to me, I'm pretty sure he can find a way to get to me. He didn't have to do that."

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Cife

Joell Ortiz is always a humble dude, and he was making the track to pay homage to Pun!! Pun's camp need to fall back tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI960IRCD0A

September 20 2011 at 8:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Young Gats

Joell is nicer than 99.9% of these so called MC's today! I personally haven't heard one song from Joell Ortiz that I did not like. And there's many out there. Pun is gone, you can not compare him to Joell Ortiz today.

July 01 2011 at 6:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Except he's not claiming to be nicer then pun, hes claiming to be the nicest puerto rican rapper alive. Not of all time. Hes just picking up where a legend left off, bcuz right now, no one else did. Pun was nice, and was puerto rican, so it gave us a big reason to stand up, but after him, there was no one, and now there is. There was no disrespect coming from that. Hes just trying to keep latinos in hip hop relevant. And ill be damned if he isn't the nicest in the game RIGHT NOW.

June 17 2011 at 12:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SamRodZ

Joell will never be as nice as Pun was don't compare yourself to Pun dude you nice I do acknowledge but you ain't nicer than Pun

June 16 2011 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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