Joe Budden Celebrates Kendrick Lamar's 'Victory' Over Drake By Dancing To Diss Song

Joe Budden has celebrated Kendrick Lamar‘s perceived victory over Drake in their feud by dancing to his diss track “Not Like Us.”

During the latest episode of his eponymous podcast, Budden played the Mustard-produced song and hilariously began busting some Crip Walk-esque moves with the rest of his co-hosts.

The former Slaughterhouse MC also declared Kendrick the winner in the beef, saying: “I think he won this off skill. He was much better than Drake the whole way.”

He added: “If I’m battling you, I need to have my options ready for all the variables; Drake didn’t. And if you feel that way, then when I was telling you to stop saying that I’m outside looking for the n-gga that saying he been outside.

“All that shit he was feeding to [Akademiks], talking about, ‘Oh, it’s been 10 years.’ Nah, nah, nah — you follow it through. Don’t sound like a n-gga that’s trying to fight a losing battle! He went from, ‘Nah, nah, nah’ to, ‘I’m going on vacation’ to, ‘I’m not replying no more.’ That was the fastest change of tone.

Budden then joked about a line on Drake’s “Push Ups” diss song: “This n-gga said, ‘You gonna make me have to wake the demon up.’ You know how many fucking sleeping pills I’ve taken in my life? What type of sleeping pills the demon taking? That demon is snoring! He lost unequivocally. The n-gga took it from him.”

Joe Budden and the JBP podcast crew Dancing to Kendrick, Not Like Us, Drake might wanna send another C&D lol pic.twitter.com/xAqEQ9fLn5

— God Ghost Writer 👁‍🗨 (@kingchudy) May 8, 2024

Joe Budden said Drake lost to Kendrick!
Unequivocally! pic.twitter.com/CdjBtvxIaR

— God Ghost Writer 👁‍🗨 (@kingchudy) May 8, 2024

Cam’ron and Ma$ehave also handed the win to Kendrick, despite previously backing Drake.

When asked who he thinks is winning the battle on It Is What It Is earlier this week, Killa Cam said: “Right now, man, I’ma be honest, Kendrick Lamar.”

The Dipset legend went on to criticize Drake’s most recent effort, “The Heart Part 6,” which he interpreted as the 6 God bowing out of the battle.

“I don’t like what Drake dropped last night because it wasn’t bad but I don’t like the way that it ended,” he said. “It seemed like he was [saying], ‘This is the last one I’m doing.’

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“You can’t end it when you just want to end it. He’s all, ‘I’m tired of doing this,’ this, that and the third. I just think that you shouldn’t have ended it like that. You gotta keep going.”

Ma$e agreed, praising Kendrick’s one-two combo of “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us” — even though he feels they should’ve been unleashed before the Compton rapper’s initial response record “Euphoria.”

“I’m going with Kendrick as well. It seemed like whatever he started out doing, he picked up the speed — pause — and really did what he was supposed to do,” he said. “I thought the last record that he did [‘Not Like Us’] was the one. He should’ve done it a little bit earlier.

“I would’ve started with ‘Meet the Grahams’ then I would’ve went into ‘Not Like Us.’ That was crazy. When I heard that, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s gonna be tough.’ That was the one I was expecting.”