{"id":5190,"date":"2025-11-26T23:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/11\/26\/stephen-a-smith-confirms-fat-joe-curse-after-disasterious-yankees-performance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:44:02","slug":"stephen-a-smith-confirms-fat-joe-curse-after-disasterious-yankees-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/11\/26\/stephen-a-smith-confirms-fat-joe-curse-after-disasterious-yankees-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith Confirms &#8220;Fat Joe Curse&#8221; After Disasterious Yankees Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fat-Joe-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/stephen-a-smith\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephen A. Smith<\/a> didn\u2019t mince words when he pointed the finger at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/fat-joe\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fat Joe<\/a> for the New York Yankees\u2019 collapse against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2024 World Series, accusing the Bronx rapper of jinxing the team with a botched Game 3 performance at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the <em>Joe &amp; Jada<\/em> podcast on November 25 alongside <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/jadakiss\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jadakiss<\/a>, Smith dropped the accusation without hesitation: \u201cI blame you for the Yankees losing to the Dodgers last year.\u201d Fat Joe fired back instantly, saying, \u201cYou full of s###<em>. <\/em>Steve, you full of s###.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith, however, stood firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very mad at you for doing that s###. You know what I said? No, that\u2019s for the Knicks. That\u2019s not for the Yankees. You ain\u2019t identified with the Yankees,\u201d Steven A. Smith said, making it clear he believed Fat Joe had no business stepping into the Yankees\u2019 World Series spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy stems from Game 5 of the World Series, where Fat Joe performed during a key moment at Yankee Stadium. What was meant to be a morale boost turned chaotic due to technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put a delay in my sht. Okay. I practiced three times that day. They put a delay in my ears. So, the sht could be f*cked up,\u201d Joe explained during the podcast. He added, \u201cI rehearsed three times that day. It was no delay. When it came on, it was a delay. Now I got to be real with you. Ice Cube\u2019s \u2018great day was a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That performance quickly became the centerpiece of a growing superstition now dubbed the \u201cFat Joe Curse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><d class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Series: Fat Joe performs &#039;All The Way Up&#039; ahead of Dodgers vs. Yankees Game 3 | MLB on FOX\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dj5T79BJGFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/d><br \/>\n<\/d><\/figure>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly added fuel to the theory in a post-game interview, saying, \u201cThey put Fat Joe up on the board, and I was like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s an easy dub now.\u2019 You know Fat Joe is the curse. And you know, they started kicking the ball around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly even claimed he predicted the unraveling in real time: \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure, right before the fifth. I looked over at [Brent] Honeywell and said, \u2018The Fat Joe Curse, watch.\u2019 and we started chipping away, chipping away, chipping away. And bad play, bad play, bad play. And I end up getting my second one with the Dodgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><d class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Series: Ice Cube performs &#039;It Was a Good Day&#039; ahead of Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 2 | MLB on FOX\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tcqfx4LKKkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/d><br \/>\n<\/d><\/figure>\n<p>The entire saga echoes the long-running <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/12\/sports\/drake-curse.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cDrake curse\u201d<\/a>, a superstition that\u2019s haunted athletes and teams for more than a decade. From Serena Williams\u2019 2015 US Open loss to the Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 recent World Series flop, the Toronto rapper\u2019s presence has been blamed for high-profile sports failures.<\/p>\n<p>That myth has followed Drake to Kentucky basketball, Alabama football and even the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Fat Joe finds himself lumped into that same territory after the Yankees\u2019 championship hopes were derailed in 2024 and his performance was under scrutiny. For a franchise with sky-high expectations, being linked to a rapper\u2019s technical glitch is a new level of sports drama.<\/p>\n<p>The blame game highlights just how deep superstition runs in sports culture. Whether it\u2019s Drake\u2019s courtside antics or Fat Joe\u2019s stage mishap, Hip-Hop figures are increasingly being cast as scapegoats when things go south.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s comments on the podcast show that even seasoned sports analysts buy into the narrative. When someone with his reach starts pointing fingers, it\u2019s no longer just a joke\u2014it becomes part of the story.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/stephen-a-smith-confirms-fat-joe-curse-after-disasterious-yankees-performance\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith didn\u2019t mince words when he pointed the finger at Fat Joe for the New York Yankees\u2019 collapse against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2024 World Series, accusing the Bronx rapper of jinxing the team with a botched Game 3 performance at Yankee Stadium. 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