A noticeably agitated Joe Budden took Lil Yachty to task on Complex’s new talk show, Everyday Struggle, where he sat down with Yachty, DJ Akademiks and Nadeska Alexis to discuss a range of topics, including Yachty’s controversial album cover for Teenage Emotions. On the cover, Lil Boat is photographed at a movie theater with several “outcasts” surrounding him — an overweight girl, a punk rocker, two gay men, an albino, and a woman with vitiligo. When the Atlanta native explains how he can identify with feeling like an outcast, Budden clearly takes issue with it and immediately calls his claim “bullshit.”
When Yachty says he’s “happy every day,” Budden then accuses him of being “media trained” before schooling him on “how humans work.”
“Feelings are fickle,” Budden said. “What that means is, they come and they go. Nobody is one thing forever. You cannot tell me … you would be lying to tell me that as a young man in this industry, in this music industry, in the music business, you are happy 24-7. That is a lie. That is bullshit. And I refuse to have somebody tell me bullshit. I want to have an honest conversation.”
Yachty calmly replied, “When you come from a college dorm room, with no money…and you ain’t gettin’ no play with no girls, you have no clothes, you have no car…and you come to having three or four cars, millions of dollars, half a million dollars on your body just to wear, and any kind of clothes you want, any hoes you want, how can you be upset?”
Throughout the interview, Budden says he’s trying to “understand” him even though he frequently cuts the 19-year-old off. As the discussion gets more and more volatile, Yachty keeps his composure and does his best to stand up to the veteran MC.
Last month, Budden blatantly called Yachty out on another episode of Everyday Struggle and referred to him as a “troll.” Yachty responded by posting Lil B’s diss track directed at the Slaughterhouse rapper before taking the couch on the show.
Perhaps this latest conversation will humanize Yachty in Budden’s eyes (but probably not). Watch the full 47-minute video above.
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BUDDEN’S SHOULD’VE SLAPPED THE HAIR BEADS OFF THAT CLOWN!!!! LMAO!!!! VENUS AND SERENA WANT THEIR BEADS BACK!!!! NO TALENT BUM!!!!
so hoe buddens invited the boat over just to talk shit to him? shit, if i had the things yachty had, i’d be happy as hell everyday too. buddens just mad he don’t have any of what yachty has. his career ain’t poppin no more and his wack ass group had their album shelved. how about stop hating and get money?
Hiphopdx needs to get its shit together. First, it reports that Lil Yachty Chris confronts Joe Budden, clearly bullshit. Then I’m assuming that after the editor actually watched the video, the the title was changed.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT FOOL? Get your shit together.
Who really cares we need some real rappers to emerge this little wack ass faze needs to end these limp wrist kool aid in their hair and tight pants nightmare must end
Joe budden talk alotta s,ht,plus he stay hatin hopefully someone slap fire out him…
Joe budden has a track record of gettin slapped once every few years. Be patient my friend
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Lil Yachty makes me want to stick my fingers in my bum and lick them clean.
LOL fYachty smoked Buddens old hatin ass like a cigarette
I respect Budden, but he cant tell this kid how he feels. He’s 19, with more money than he’s ever had, and with money comes bxtches. Trust me, the lil homie is happy…ALL the time…or maybe 99.98% of the time.
People are mad! Why tf yall defend lil yachty against budden? Dude ain’t got a single creative line of lyrics n u comparin him to budden? Get Rage and the Machine & stfu.
Mad? Not me bruh. Cant speak for anybody else, but I aint defending lil youngsta, I dont listen to his music – but that dont change the fact that Budden can NOT tell this kid how he feels. If he says he’s happy all the time, then let him be that. Like the homie above said, Joe is the one w/issues…that $hit was kinda obvious. Let this kid do his thing..whatever tf that might be. I cant understand why Budden even had a prblm with what the kid said anyway. Let the boy do his thang.
“His thang” is ruining hip hop. Music is already fucked up but this kid makes future and Gucci sound like Mozart. Joe just stood against the commercialized trap, and ppl trolled him cuz he ain’t makin hits. Okay. U want hits? Go get yo self a pop magazine and buy every song it praises. Go listen to justin bieber. But please gtfo hip hop, let it be. Joe Budden ain’t makin hits,yea,but his worst verses are better than this bloody shit’s best songs. That’s just the truth.
he is a fad but I have to agree with him…what does he have to be upset about, seems like he is living the life and Joe Budden and his stupid feelings won’t let that kid live. Joe is the one with issues, let that boy live. I don’t like his music but I’m happy for him as he is living out his dream even with those stupid a** extensions. He won’t be around in a year or two so let that boy cook!
Joe is the absolute worst person to have on this show!!!!they should call it the Joe show cuz he don’t shut the fuck up
I’m an “old head” and Budden is super corny for this. Frankly, outside of music, they way Budden talks is pretty corny in general. He getting so mad by what other people doing, he need to calm his old ass down and let people build their OWN way. Budden got his own personal demons and he gains no favor the way he talks himself in circles. He offers NO insight. Constantly contradicting himself. It’s dumb and I’m tired people like him (ahem, Lord Jamar) get as much attention as they seem to get. News flash: YALL BORING.
Can we all just get along…..
Doesn’t Joe have some women to push down the stairs?
Tf is wrong w/this comment section? My comment was to KFC / Kung Fu Claude, not Shart.
Real talk? The whole notion of “ruining hip hop” is complete bullshit. If we as old heads wanna act like ALL the music we listened to was great, we are wrong. There was JUST AS MUCH nonsense and playful rap as there is now. Maybe in retrospect you can cherry pick all the good shit, but if we are honest, for every Wu-Tang and BIG, there was 2Live Crew, and Akinyele. Sure you had Big Pun, but you also had De La Soul. News flash, HIP HOP HAS NO MOLD. Hip Hop has ALWAYS been about originality. Hip Hop has always been about REBELLION against the current status quo. I may not like Yachty music, but he and Uzi and 21 Savage are rebelling against what we know as “real hip hop” and I see nothing MORE HIP HOP THAN THAT!
Budden, stop acting like everything has to fit into YOUR criteria of “real” or “authentic”. There’s no holy grail for Hip Hop, guys. Sorry. Cats like you are obviously trolling looking for ratings. It’s click-bait and if we are honest, THAT shit is corny. Maybe you need a Make Hip Hop Great Again hat. And keeping it ALL the way real, your first big hit was “Pump It Up”…a light hearted club hit if I recall. Lighten up, bro. Hug a puppy, fam.
The originality is gone though in today’s generation though. Its been gone for about 10 years.
Joe Budden is actually jealous of little Yachty. It’s actually pretty sad.
He basically told Joe, “you did it wrong.” Joe was/is worried about competition, who is the best rapper, who’s the best lyricist etc.
Yachty told him, I’m worried about my business (Sprite, Target, Nautica) etc. I don’t like his music or his style but we have to respect his hustle.
Potatoe_with_jive kill yourself brah… You an old head that supports trash.. all these non bar having mumble rappers fucked up hip hop and as you seen on national TV they can’t even freestyle.. white and black suburban kids fucked up music… And Joe Budden a beast and fuck record sales cause Joey B jumping but you wouldn’t know that prolly cause you got 21 Savage playing to loud.. they all trash
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Sorry you mad, fam. It’s also a shame you can’t read. If you DID, you’d understand that I actually don’t like any of these guys’ music. And if you stepped out of your own “real hip hop” cloud, you’d understand that hip hop has is about BREAKING THE RULES. What you talking about is desperately holding onto “the good ol days”. It’s been done. and done well. And amazingly, its still available to us. No one is taking away our BARS! But in all fairness, guess what, this new music ain’t for us, and Im cool with that. You should be too. Cause if we want to listen to “bars” or “real shit”, guess what, its STILL out there. This message is for you, me, and all these other cats out here still wearing Timbs and Karl Kani jeans like its 93′. “Let’s stop being so threatened by what the kids are doing, bro. It looks lame AF.”
lil yatchy isn’t as stupid as he raps. He’s actually quite bright and on top of his game. The trouble is that his art is bullshit and Joe and people of Joes generation take it to heart that someone this trash has so much shine right now. Lil Yatchy is not about bar/skills/struggle/art in the traditional hip hop sense. He’s about memes/being and outcast/ and laughing at his decenters. That’s his agenda. to confound and laugh all the way to the bank. That’s his generations goal and drive. To not fit in and dismiss what came before them as old and tired. they don’t try to be good, they try to be as different as possible that’s their art. being good at being different not being good on the mic or in the studio or whatever. Joes generation did it all already so they don’t give a crap about ataining those levels. It’s been already done.
I have a new respect for lil yatchy for this. We have to accept that he represents death to hip hop. He’s just new media. If that’s what you value then he’s at the top of that game. not hip hop.