The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal came to an abrupt and unceremonious end in May when host Joe Budden fired Rory on-air during Episode 437: “You Want It To Be One Way.” Disputes over finances and frequent ego clashes had finally reached a boiling point, and Budden was evidently over it.
“Y’all will not continue to treat me this way,” Budden said at the time. “Y’all not going to continue to treat these people this way. Y’all take that fuckin’ dark energy, that arrogance and entitlement somewhere else. I say all of that to say, we gonna do this since Rory feels like he has so many options.
“Somehow he still feels he’s running the show. He still feels like he has choices and options. He feels like he’s entitled to more. Rory, you are in breach of your contract and from this point forward, you are fired! And you’re not welcome back.”
With that, the show that had once hit No. 1 on the Spotify podcast chart, was no longer comprised of the original three musketeers and they all went their separate ways.
But according to Vulture, it’s worked out in Rory and Mal’s favor. After launching the New Rory and Mal weekly podcast in July, they’ve signed a lucrative deal with SiriusXM’s Stitcher, and the show will now be released through Stitcher’s new More Sauce label. The first episode is scheduled to arrive on November 2, with new installments every Tuesday and Friday.
As Mal explained, doing their own podcast has given them a sense of freedom they didn’t necessarily have before.
“There were a lot of things we wanted to do in the old show that we weren’t able to because we just didn’t have as much control after a while,” Mal told Vulture. “Looking back, that was the beginning of the end. Honestly, all that started when everytime we wanted to try something, the energy around it would just be like, ‘Ehh, I don’t know.’ Despite the fact that this is our show, you know what I mean?
'Joe Budden Podcast' Goes Down In Flames After Co-Host Rory Is Fired On Air
“And then there were also a lot of business meetings that were happening that we didn’t know about. Coming out of all that was a blessing, because now it’s literally just Rory and myself having conversations about what we creatively want to do. Stuff that before would not have seen the light of day because the energy around it was just, ‘Ah, I don’t know, let’s think about that, let’s come back to that.’ It was never, ‘Yes, let’s do it, let’s try.’ With just Rory and myself, it can happen so freely now.”
While neither Rory or Mal have disclosed the details of their new contract, rumor has it they were given $10 million to sign with Stitcher. TIDAL’s Elliott Wilson shared a meme to his Instagram account from Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Kareem “Biggs” Burke shortly after the news broke indicating, “What a fresh $10 million looks like.”
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The irony is people will trash Joe not realizing he made this happen. Joe was the one preaching ownership and literally taught them what to look for in a deal.
bro i hear what you’re trying to say, but Rory was there with Joe from the beginning. Clearly he was a part of making that pod happen from the ground up, and #2, they’re grown ass man. Joe “taught them” like they’re children. If anything Rory probably learned more working with Hov than Joe.
Rory didn’t work with Hov directly homie he just did Dussepalooza. If you remember Rory and Mal wanted to take the Spotify deal m Joe said no to keep ownership. Had they taken it Spotify would own their new podcast cause it was a 360 deal.
We still have Joe Budden dick riders in 2021?! Lmaooooo
Yea I don’t get it. You can continue to watch him and just say he did them dirty. No need to try to take Joe’s side on everything.
Yeah but nobody checking fof Joe anymore so owning your own podcast is worthless if nobody is listening. Royce said this about owning your own masters if they’re wack but Joe missed it apparently. “It’s like owning 100% of nothing.” Joe overreached, thought he was more valuable than he was when he rejected the deal, and then again when he fired Rory and Mal. Their numbers took a hit, no new people are watching. I find the rory and mal pod boring, but together with Joe they had solid chemistry. Now we got 2 average to bad podcasts. However, I will ride with rory and mal because Joe been phony since day 1.
Too bad it’s all fake. They got fake views, fake comments and getting outperformed by other podcasts on DSPs. Vulture for paid for this article. It’s all paid hype to look legit. Spotify signs NDAs btw.
Uhh no? They have better engagement than the joe budden podcast… you can verify all that shit easy and people are really watching there shit. They aren’t the top performing podcast but they are one of them.
I watch both podcasts but he’s right. Look at their ratio of subscribers to views it’s obviously bogus. Views are usually 25-35% of your subscribers yet they often double the subscribers on random episodes. Also… how can they have better engagement when JBP has people paying for Patreon? You’re just saying stuff outta emotion bro.
they’re a new podcast that got a giant viewership automatically vs having grown a subscriber base for over a decade of course the numbers look different are you dumb
How do you know that?
RS is JB !
They are following the blue print that was used on JBP so there is a lot that the experience brought them. Hopefully the exclusive route works for them but I can see them using this as marketing and going independent too.
Not a Budden fan but Rory and Mal SUCKKK boring as hell
THEY ARE DEFINITELY BUM ASS HACKS BUT SALUTE TO THEM AND THEIR DEAL!
They did the work. They deserve it!
Congratulations! Looking forward to it and I can’t wait!
Love what you both are doing!
I’d rather donate all my money to Alex Jones than give Joe Budden a single view. Especially with his wack co hosts Parks “The Silver Slurper” Vallely, Antwan “ Deadbeat Ish” Marby, and Chester “Ice” Copperbottom
What happened to vladtv comments? Amd these fools are boring too but rather see them win.
Well done boys. Budden is nothing but a soul sucking culture vulture. Nice to see drink champs also get that #1 spot! Well deserved and without being scummy and being vultures