Fat Joe Recalls Bruno Mars Snapping on Him Over Question About Puerto Rican Roots: ‘Broke My Heart’

Fat Joe was excited to conscionable Bruno Mars astatine an grant show, but helium claims their enactment went near erstwhile helium asked the Grammy-winning creator astir his Puerto Rican roots.

During a caller occurrence of Joe & Jada featuring Hit-Boy and The Alchemist, Fat Joe took the spotlight for a fewer minutes portion recalling the clip erstwhile Mars allegedly snapped connected him.

Joe says he’s a big-time instrumentality of Bruno’s enactment and he’d been waiting implicit a decennary to conscionable the “24K Magic” hitmaker. “The feline adjacent to maine said, ‘You mightiness not privation to bash it. He’s a fuck n—a,'” The Bronx autochthonal remembered being warned astir Mars.

Still, Joey Crack went implicit to greet Mars, who was with his Silk Sonic collaborator Anderson .Paak.

“I said, ‘Yo, Bruno, what’s up, man?’ ‘Yo, what’s up, Joe?’ [he replied]. He’s with Anderson.Paak. I’m like, ‘Yo, you Puerto Rican?’ He got up,” Joe described, saying Mars appeared to instrumentality discourtesy to the remark earlier things got hostile. “‘The f—k you mean? I’m a existent Puerto Rican from Bushwick, Brooklyn! Don’t ever inquire maine that s–t successful your life,'” Joe said Mars told him.

According to PEOPLE, Bruno Mars’ father, Peter Hernandez, is from Brooklyn and is of Jewish and Puerto Rican descent.

Fat Joe said that a frustrated Bruno removed himself from the speech and went to beryllium connected the different broadside of the venue astatine the unspecified awards show.

“Man, broke my heart. I wasn’t challenging him. Like, ‘tell maine something. Who’s your father?’ [I asked in] the nicest way… Man, screamed connected me. Went to the different country and was mad,” Joe added astir the singer/producer he’s ne'er worked professionally with. “Bruno, if you don’t retrieve it, I forgive you. But you did that, brother.”

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