Drama ensued following Joe Budden’s sudden announcement that he was leaving his hosting duties on Everyday Struggle last month. But as the Complex series kicks off the new year and its second season, co-hosts DJ Akadamiks and Nadeska Alexis have announced Budden’s replacement as Troi “Star” Torain.
Everyday Struggle posted a video to Twitter on Monday (January 22) revealing the news.
“Everyday Struggle officially returns today!” the caption reads. “@neweryork and @IamAkademiks are kicking things off by welcoming our new co-host Star (@troitorain) to The Struggle.”
Although Star, who Alexis refers to as a “radio legend” in the video, has had a storied career, it’s been shrouded in controversy. Star is known for his “shock jock” style approach to radio and in 2001, Hot 97 suspended him after he mocked Aaliyah’s death. Over 32,000 people reportedly signed a “No More Star” petition to have him removed from radio. Clearly, that didn’t work.
In 2006, during his run on Power 105.1’s Star & Buc Wild Morning Show, he made some inappropriate comments that got him fired. He threatened to sexually assault DJ Envy’s 4-year-old and made racial slurs against Envy’s wife on air.
Watch the new episode of Everyday Struggle below.
Star? I don’t know. It will work in a way because star will say whatever he feels similar to Joe but the difference is Joe’s opinion comes from his passion and love of hiphop. Star, a man well in to his 50’s HATES hiphop, so expect sparks and controversy between him and ak but that will be about it.
Star should have been blackballed from any radio and TV show back in 2001. Plus, dude is a coward. Like Trump.
Ak is going to shed a tear every day just on how Star speaks to him. Star has no filter and this is not going to work. Star said it himself he hates hip hop and doesn’t listen to it so why hire him to do this show? I give it a month
so dude threatens to molest children and yall replace Joe with him?
foh complex. this isnt the move. just end the show gracefully.
Assault, not molest…Bella disrespectful but that’s all. Star is more entertaining than Joe.
So Everyday Struggle got a known paedophile as their new co-host? Joe got off a sinking ship…
“who the fuck has a conversation with another guy for 3 hours? if you’re not doing a documentary, that’s weirdo shit” i like where this is going. star is going to son akademiks every day!!
8 minutes tops! Episode got me dying. His offensive comments and shock jock tactics aside, Star is a funny dude. I think Ak is gonna go home and cry (and maybe cry on facetime to xtentacion)
This show died when Joe left
LMAO The original troll, this is gonna be ill
Loooooooool!!!!! Really that is who they came up?? Didn’t Joe have Star on his podcast??
Her names nadeska not Alexis dumbass
alexis is her last name. people often refer to others by their last names, fyi
Weird ass mix man….really weird. For one, you get another “hater” to replace Joe…shows how much Joe meant to the success of this show, and because no one in particular rides with STAR, this is going to fail… FOH
not for nothing, but they did an Ill move getting star on here. they might have just saved this show
The show numbers are gonna be lower than
T R U M P S IQ
STAR = GARBAGE
Star wants clout for trashing Ak but it’s not going to go the way he thinks. Nobody cares about him, there’d be no show without Akademiks
star dont give a fuck about no clout or ak and his fans. p.s. is clout the new word among youth? all of a sudden everyone saying clout like that on fleek shit. dorks playin out old words
Well played Complex.
Well Played.
Star is official
I want salty Joe Budden back.
Hes a clown and apparently a child molester.
Complex hired someone who mocked Aaliyah’s death and threatened to sexually assault a minor child of an established media personality whose had Buddens back since day 1? This shit won’t last.