Joe Budden has seemingly shared a few choice words for his former co-hosts, Rory and Mal, and noted it would be wise if they kept his name out of their mouths.
During the latest episode of the Joe Budden Podcast — titled “To Whom It May Concern” — the host appeared to respond to his former co-hosts’ recent comments about his spot on Complex‘s Hip Hop Media Power Ranking — Budden was ranked No.1.
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The pair called the New York native a “thief” and “cat burglar” for the alleged financial issues they had with the rapper-turned-podcast host, which ultimately ended their time on his show.
However, Budden disagrees with their label and referred to them — and possibly others — as the “bare minimum” boys — which is an oblique reference to Drake’s track “BackOutsideBoyz” from his and 21 Savage’s Her Loss album. Although it appears Budden is talking about Rory and Mal, he does not directly name names.
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“To whom this may concern,” he began. “This is not even on page one of the manual, ’cause you n-ggas ain’t in the bookstore. Instead of crtiquing people’s placement on this list, we need more crtiquing on why you’re not on it. To everyone not on it, shut the fuck up. There’s some steps that you n-ggas have missed.
“To whom it may concern, stop holding a microphone. I’m just giving out podcast advice. It’s certain n-ggas, y’all can’t speak to me, y’all didn’t do the work yet. You didn’t go to the bookstore.”
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Budden added: “Hire the editors. Get people to help. Invest in the staff. Pay the staff. Get more staff. Stop check chasing. Stop doing the bare minimum and expecting that to yield results. You n-ggas are the bare minimum boys.”
Lisen to Budden’s comments around the 1:27:33 mark below:
Budden also took a moment to criticize The Breakfast Club, noting the show hasn’t been “impactful in years” and its “rotating seat garbage isn’t working.”
He also alleged that iHeartRadio — the platform the show is broadcast on — was “moving in a different direction” and that the company has shifted its attention to the advertising dollars that they can get in podcasting.
“It’s not about radio, they breaking up all that shit over there, and we [are] getting podcast advertising dollars,” Budden said, “which says it don’t matter how powerful that one show was at some point, if the company is going in a different direction, n-ggas gone look like they’re going in a different direction.”
Previously serving as co-hosts of Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast, Rory was unexpectedly fired from the podcast after weeks of disputes, and Mal stepped away from the pod shortly after in May 2021. Earlier last year, Mal joined The Personal Party podcast where he said there’s no chance of reconciliation.
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“I don’t respect him at all,” Mal stated. “Shake his hand? I’ll shake the room before I shake his hand. That’s just what it is. It’s not even about the business or the money. It’s a lot of money, it’s a lot of money, bro, that me and Rory walked away from. It’s a lot of money that was taken out of our pockets. It’s a lot of money that still to this day, we don’t have no lawyers going after it. Keep it. We got our own bag.”
He continued: “But, with that money that we walked away from, with that, what was owed to us that we walked away from, that was also me walking away from a relationship and a chapter of life that, once I walk away, you know, that door never opens again.”
