Joe was more of a behind the scenes guy, who happened to rap.
Joe has crazy connections, don't let 50 Cent fool ya.
I'm sure at some point he's wrote some ill lyrics, but damn near every main stream artist uses a ghost writer at least sometimes.
Joe's like Puff, except he don't produce, so he started rhyming.
He is ill, but it's well known that Pun used to write for dude.
Same as Big did with Puff, see.