“I tried to go, ‘Hello, Aloha’ — they don’t want Fat Joe to do that. I’mma have to do something that I’m an expert at; it’s called ‘kill people.’ That’s why it’s The Darkside: Volume 1. Once you get this one, you ain’t gonna never want Fat Joe to do anything else. Just know that this new album right here is about to be the skeleton.

How I figure it, you make all that pretty music, and you ain’t selling no records anyway. You might as well do what your strength is. I come from Diggin’ in the Crates, Big L, Big Pun. I come from this hard shit. I’m not playing with niggas. The mask is off, the gloves is off. We darkin’ out, we don’t care. We leaving fingerprints at the police scene so they can find it on purpose.”

Joe is working with Young Jeezy, Busta Rhymes, DJ Khaled, Cool & Dre, Alchemist, Street Runner and more on the LP. Scott Storch is also set to dish out beats.

“Some people wish, they wish it was over. I got some things that’s gonna light up the airwaves. My first single I’m gonna put out, me and Young Jeezy, when Funk Flex hears this, he’s gonna play it from 7 at night, till 11 at night. No other songs played on the station, no interruption. The worst thing you can do to Fat Joe is back him in the corner or back him down till he’s got no breathing room. He’s a warrior. He’s a conquistador. He’s coming out fighting and swinging harder than ever. … Fat Joe’s walked through fire and the coldest of winters.”

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50 Cent issued a statement that contained Fat Joe’s album sales for the week, which totaled 8,343 copies.

“A bad man kicks you while you’re down,” 50 Cent said in a statement. “Well I’m the worst, I’ma kick Fat Joe in the head.”

Prior to Fat Joe releasing his 9th solo album, 50 issued a number of viral videos poking fun at the album was released, while Fat Joe replied in kind with messages via his Twitter page.

“Tell 50 to get off my D*CK already,“ Fat Joe said. “He was sick that my album is SO HOT that real music not that wack sh*t him and his clowns are making.”

Fat Joe also appeared on Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg radio show in New York, where he thanked 50 Cent for the “free promotion” for J.O.S.E. 2.