Joe Budden has trashed Bruno Mars‘ new collaboration with Sexyy Red, “Fat Juicy & Wet,” comparing the singer’s change in style to tactics employed by Donald Trump.
Speaking on his self-titled podcast, Budden offered up a scathing review of the raunchy, strip club-ready track following its release last Friday (January 24).
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“Will it work? Yes. They’re gonna pay for this to work,” he began, referring to Bruno and Sexyy’s respective labels. “The video says that, the feature says that, the [Lady Gaga] cameo says that, [gamma. boss] Larry Jackson and all of his relationships say that. This song is going to work.
“Now, where it will work is a whole different thing. I don’t know if Gary, Indiana is playing this in the strip clubs out there. I also don’t think it was made for that.”
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The former Slaughterhouse rapper then laid out his issues with the sexually-charged song: “I’m not trying to bring race into everything. However, as I age, race does have a lot to do with shit. This song is formulaic and I have a problem with the formula used to attract Black listeners versus the formula used to attract a white audience.
“Sexyy Red, when it’s time to sell a mixtape or get shit poppin’ in the hood at ground level where you need it to be, it’s a whole bunch of, Pull my tampon out, fuck me in the ass raw. It’s the raunchiest, nastiest shit that works because we like that shit.”
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Budden continued by comparing Bruno Mars to Trump: “Bruno Mars said, ‘Pussy so good, make me wanna gangbang and throw up a set.’ I’m sick of — my same point last week with Donald Trump using his mugshot to relate to Black people, this is the same thing to me!
“I want there to be a day where white people, or Bruno Mars and his people, don’t feel like in order to attact us, they need to start talking about gangbanging.”
Bruno Mars and Sexyy Red have yet to respond to Joe Budden’s criticism, while “Fat Juicy & Wet” has received a mixed response from other listeners.
Budden and Sexyy have clashed before, exchanging words over her seemingly close relationship with Drake.
Last year, Budden accused the 6 God of being paid to associate with the “SkeeYee” star, saying: “Respectfully, it sound like a n-gga that could rap at that level that gets paid off of everybody’s deal tryna rap. That’s what it sound like to me. Oh, you think he just like being around Sexyy Red that much? … I can name some more people.”
Red issued a short and sweet rebuttal, simply writing on X: “They so dumb.”
