Fat Joe claims he bailed Justin Bieber out of jail following the pop star’s 2014 arrest in Miami Beach, but shared a conversation that followed between the stars that the rapper believes ruined their relationship.
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On the Thursday (May 29) episode of Joe & Jada, Joey Crack recalled receiving a call about a 19-year-old Bieber needing to be bailed out after being arrested in Miami Beach on charges of driving under the influence, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest.
“It wasn’t no money. It was nothing,” Joe begins about the bail amount. “Couple of hundred dollars, a thousand dollars. We used Rich Playa’s girl to bail him out. So we bail out Bieber, $100.” (The pop star’s bail was actually $2,500.)
“The problem is he calls me to thank me and he starts saying, ‘I’m a gangster now.’ … He starts telling me he’s a gangster, I went to jail. I said, ‘Yo, Justin. Listen, bro. You gotta stop. We don’t want you gangster.’ We want you singing ‘Baby, baby.’”
Joe thinks that giving him some mature fatherly advice destroyed his relationship with Bieber, rather than going along with his rebelliousness at the time, as some others may have. They haven’t spoken much since the incident, according to the rapper.
“We don’t want you on the news. We don’t want you getting arrested. We want you to succeed. You’re Justin Bieber,” he continued. “My daughter worships you! We all love you! And that kinda messed up my relationship with him at that moment … He felt like I’m the fun killer. I f–ked up the moment.”
Billboard has reached out to reps for Justin Bieber for comment.
Seven years later, Bieber reflected on his 2014 arrest with some perspective and clarity on one of the low moments in his life as a teen.
“7 years ago today I was arrested, not my finest hour. Not proud of where I was at in my life. I was hurting, unhappy, confused, angry, mislead, misunderstood and angry at God,” he wrote to social media before mocking his fashion choices on the night of his arrest. “[I] also wore too much leather for someone in Miami. All this to say God has brought me a long way. From then til now I do realize something.. God was as close to me then as he is right now.”
Watch Fat Joe’s interview below. The Bieber bailout talk starts around the 18:50 mark.
