Fat Joe: Knicks-Oakley saga 'broke my heart'

Fat Joe isn't one to lean back and not comment on the pathetic state of affairs of his beloved New York Knicks. The 46-year-old Bronx rapper chimed in on the Charles Oakley fiasco Thursday, telling USA Today's Adi Joseph that the Knicks legend's removal from Madison Square Garden last week was a sad moment.

"Broke my heart," he said. "First thing I turned on the TV and saw that, I wanted to die."

Fat Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, said he's well aware of Oakley's reputation for occasional volatility.

"I don't know what Oakley did. I know he's a tough guy, he's crazy. I think he might have heckled Dolan for sure," he said. "But to see a monument, a living statue get thrown out like that from Madison Square Garden was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in my life."

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Incidentally, Oakley has been critical of Fat Joe in the past. The rapper divulged last year that Biggie Smalls' widely scrutinized 1997 track "I Got A Story To Tell" about a sexual encounter with the girlfriend of an unnamed Knicks player was in fact about the late Anthony Mason.

Mason, Oakley's New York teammate from 1991-96, died in 2015 of heart failure at just 48.

"Definitely disrespectful," Oakley said at the time of Fat Joe's identification of Mason. "You don't talk about a guy after he's deceased."