How did Jay Z come to be involved with the "All The Way Up" remix?

FAT JOE: Well, it's been a long time coming. I woke up one morning and I was walking around the house. I see pictures of me with Kanye West and Eminem, some of the greatest lyricists and artists to rap — but the last of the mohicans is Jay Z. I guess it would be on my bucket list to work with Jay Z. So I reached out to him via N.O.R.E. and Memphis Bleek and they put me on the phone with him. I was like "Yo, I would love for you to be on the remix." And he said, "I can't wait, let's do it."

There was a lot written about how you two came together for this, after there had been some bad feelings from both sides in the past. How did that get resolved?

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The past is the past. I've grown out of any immaturities that I used to have, and stupid ways of thinking. I'm mature. I'm a business man. I'm much smarter, wiser, and I just figured the game deserves to hear a Fat Joe and Jay Z song sooner or later, for the hip-hop culture. Because I'm not going to be rapping much longer. Jay and me both came up on hip-hop culture. We're businessmen now. We took different roads, but we're real hip-hop.