Though Drake has been mostly quiet on the topic of Joe Budden’s four (and probably counting) diss tracks, he apparently reached out to the Slaughterhouse rapper privately.
Speaking with Cari Champion on her Be Honest ESPN podcast, Budden goes into detail about his interactions with Drizzy since he started dropping the diss tracks.
“For me there was absolutely zero to say at all. And then he sent me a very passive aggressive Insta DM. I didn’t even know how to take it. I didn’t know how to take it. And then he continued to send them and I said ‘Whoa ok.’ And that’s why I say that I couldn’t tell you that we’re cool today because it sounded like a man who was very hurt and who just didn’t want to talk to Joe or hear from Joe or just that relationship was over. I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to him so I can’t even begin to pretend to know where his brain is. I’ve prayed for him. I want him to be well. I want him to be successful. I want God to continue to be amazing to him. He’s just gotta know that he can’t rap with a [censored] like me. So don’t play with me.”
When asked for specifics on the content of the Instagram messages, he continues.
“I won’t tell you what they said verbatim in case I have to put them out. I’m only not putting them out because I’m a real [censored]. You just don’t move like that. You don’t screenshot men’s s— you just don’t do that. I don’t do it with women I ain’t gonna do it with men,” he said. “He started off with ‘I would like to formally invite you to one of my four Madison Square Garden shows August 4, you and however many people you would like to bring.’ … Then after that it says: ‘And I bet you can’t release 25 diss records between now and then.’ Then it was the laughing emoji. I use that emoji with my friends so I don’t know if he’s laughing or joking at this point. And then he followed that with ‘If you can I will give you $10,000 lol’ and then it said ‘Joey’ with a bunch of exclamation points. I didn’t know how to take it.”
Budden explains that he didn’t know how to interpret the message.
“That sounds like someone who’s a gentleman. That sounds like someone who isn’t really bothered by any of this. But it also sounds like someone who’s attempting to insult someone. It depends on how you wanna take it. I didn’t know how to take it,” he said.
Budden says that he responded to Drake with “lol maybe not 25 but I bet you I can get close to 20.” That’s all I’ll say that was from that conversation. The conversation continued and it wasn’t needed to gauge anything after that. He had made his point as he continued to insult me in my Insta DMs [laughs].”
The whole back-and-forth started when Budden critiqued Drake’s inspiration in the verses of his still mega-popular VIEWS album.
“This is all maybe my fault,” he offers. “Maybe I started all this. Maybe I should stop talking about people. Maybe I just need to mind my fucking business, but the man that I knew or thought that I knew is very different than just what I’m seeing … I’ve never reached that kind of fame, but I know it comes at a price.”
Joe Budden Went To The Home Of One Of The Kids Who Ran Up On Him
Earlier in the interview Budden also detailed his run-in with the kids he eventually chased down and confronted (rocks-in-hand) after they ran up on him with their cameras out outside his home this past weekend. As he also did in a new video interview, he explained that they were harassing him throughout the day and that he was trying to scare them with his threats.
He also says that he went to the home of one of the kids in the days following and spoke to the family about how dangerous the kid’s actions had been.
He explains why he didn’t call police over the issue.
“We’ve come to a point where I didn’t think the police would do very much but make the situation worse. You’re talking about a 35-year-old black rapper with a bunch of tattoos screaming at some 16-year-old white kids in a predominantly white neighborhood. I didn’t feel comfortable calling police thinking that they would solve things,” he said.
Listen to the full interview here.
You give updates on this nonsense like every couple of hours, does anyone even care about this anymore?
All the Drake fans seem to care about it.
yet yall the first comments here
And the Haters lol
And whoever cares enough to “decode budden’s ‘real raps’ lol
Joey, shouldn’t have chased them kids. It could only result in a loss. Joey shouldn’t have let the whole world know Drake is not taking him seriously by letting us know about the DM’s.
Drake basically told Joey, “You could make 20 songs dissing me and neither one will hurt my career.I ll pay you 4 working hard tho”
I can see how hard it is to be a rapper and talk about how much better they are than everyone else in their lyrics, but at the same time be reluctant to say anything bad about any other rapper. You lose out on future collaborations and potential revenue. So I can respect Budden speaking his mind, because that’s truly not giving a fuck.
HOw u gonna say i wont release the dm messages because u dont move like that ..Like its supposed to be a gangsta move or something…Bro u dry snitchin if u on some real niggas dont move like that shit. Just keep it to your self and diss him until u get tired of him not caring about u
This nigga Budden loves Drake way too much tho, he dreams about him all day,four diss tracks no reply thats hw irrelevant he is right nw
PS Joe u wanna battle someone worth battling battle madchild #madchild #kotd
Fuck the money donate unless u starving
Boycott hip-hop dx hater ass sensor
Joe better get to writing he knows he need that
You and I know Joe doesn’t need 10 grand the car he was in was worth way more than 10 grand
Drake bodied joe budden by offering 10 grand. The sad thing is joe will prob do what drake said.cause hes irrelevant and broke.
This is like passive aggressive snitching lol Joe sounds like he and drake broke up lmao he talks way to much ppl hate on drake love songs and it seems like Joe listens and cries to them
But seriously, are they lovers? Cmon…men don’t use words like “relationship” and “hurt” when talking about a male friend or colleague. This definitely has a gay twist to it.
Being a hiphop fan is just painful these days.
Another W for Drake
You’re retarded. Drake takes another L. Sends DMs to guys privately, but won’t spit nothing, bitch please!!!!!
Take this f*ckin L
Take this F*ckin L RichL
Truthfully, Joe Budden is sadly really battling against the current state of hip hop more than he’s battling Drake.
Don’t get me wrong, I Like Drake and have purchased most of his albums but Drake built a career on being a very likeable figure who made commercially friendly music at the perfect time. While 25+ year olds who listened to G-Unit, D-Block, Dipset, etc. were still getting used to the idea that free P2P downloading was no longer easily available, the 13-24 year old age group was introduced to legal downloading and streaming as their norm and this is when Drake came in. The largest demographic of music streamers/downloaders (13-24) was his for the taking and he created their standards of what rap/hip hop should sound like.
If this was any time prior to 2008-2010, Drake would be like Ja Rule vs. 50 Cent or Nas vs. Jay-Z or…. Saigon vs. Joe Budden. When rap was hard and lyricism was the deciding factor, not trolling.
I remember downloading The Marshall Mathers LP off of Napster in 2000
mothafucka looks like Grover from the muppets in that picture
This Drake dude is showing how Corny he really is.
joey better be careful before he get’s punched again
Joes goofy he is not on drakes level he should be making diss records to drakes father instead he needs to just stop
OVO god isn’t going to respond cause budden isn’t on the 6 gods level…plain and simple…..6 god would murder this clown…sing him to death or something….
Joe buddens needs to get all twenty fans of his. They should get together paint each other’s faces. Then join the circus. We’re people can pay to see or buy v.i.p passes to SMOOOSH pies in these clowns faces. Then Joe would probably sell out a few venu’s a step up from this bs