Joe Budden and Gillie Da Kid’s long-simmering feud has been reignited with the rappers-turned-podcasters trading shots online.
Budden threw the first proverbial punch this past weekend when he ridiculed an unnamed rival for bragging about their earning power yet not exactly living in a high-flyer’s home.
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“I turn the fuck up when I’m feeling good in here,” he barked on The Joe Budden Podcast while Rick Ross’ chest-pounding “I’m Not a Star” played in the background. “I don’t wanna hear none of that money talk from you n-ggas.
“Your headboard is covering a very small window in your primary bedroom! I can tell it’s not like that! Stop fucking playing with me.”
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Internet detectives linked Budden’s comments to a recent Instagram video from Gillie, in which he filmed a woman asleep in his bed ostensibly after sex and his headboard covering a small window in his bedroom.
“This when you Netflix and Gill,” the Million Dollaz Worth of Game co-host bragged in the clip while laughing. “See, you n-ggas ain’t hitting your woman with that NyGill. That night-time sniffling, coughing, sneezing, good-dick-so-she-can-rest medicine.”
After catching wind of his apparent sneak diss, Gillie Da Kid fired back at Joe Budden on Twitter on Sunday (May 7) by calling him a “washed up” rapper while bringing up his past rehab stints and domestic violence allegations.
“After the washed Up Rap career in and out all the rehabs all the beating on Bit$hes Now u Wanna Podcast Beef [crying face emojis],” he wrote. “I’ll beef when u start getting sum Ad money [skull emoji] #GotEm.”
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Budden returned fire by letting his own Twitter fingers fly, warning Gillie to “watch [his] mouth.”
“You selling ass out here for cheap… watch your mouth when you speak to or of me. [crying face emoji],” he wrote in response to a screenshot of the Philly native’s aforementioned tweet.
The former rappers also traded jabs on Akademiks’ Instagram page, with Gillie accusing Budden of stirring up beef to boost his struggling income.
“When dat money slow up u wanna Podcast Beef [facepalm emoji] [crying face emoji],” Gillie commented on Akademiks’ post about Budden’s headboard insult.
“@gilliedaking i ain’t like your lil ad speech.. i took that personally [crying face emojis],” Budden wrote back.
Joe Budden and Gillie Da Kid’s rift dates back to 2020 when Budden and his then-co-hosts Rory and Mal spoke about producer Devin Wade’s split from Million Dollaz Worth of Game following the show’s lucrative $3 million deal with Barstool Sports.
A pissed off Gillie put Budden and co. on blast, saying: “Why was y’all n-ggas talking about us on your podcast? We don’t talk about other podcasts on our podcast. It must be dead fred over that muthafucka, huh?
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“Stop speaking on business that you n-ggas don’t have no fucking clue what y’all talking about. Because I will catch you n-ggas in traffic, and then what’s gonna happen?”
Months later, Budden aired out Gillie over a video of him speaking down on the Black Lives Matter movement and championing “All Lives Matter.” The clip circulated after the May 2020 death of George Floyd, but Gillie claimed it was filmed four years earlier.
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“I’m not caping for this n-gga, man,” Budden said on his podcast. “This n-gga says and does a lotta stupid, doofy, goofball shit and ever since he got that Barstool deal, it’s amplified.
“Anybody who replies to Black Lives Matter with the harm that Blacks do to each other, you not somebody that I’m not gonna have this conversation with again. And I’m gonna question your train of thought, I’m gonna question your cognitive skills. You clearly do not comprehend the magnitude of the conversation we’re having.”
He added: “You can’t give a million dollars worth of game sounding as stupid as you sound.”
Gillie responded by calling the former Slaughterhouse MC “Joe Butthead” and threatening to leak a video of him getting beat up by Raekwon and his crew — an incident both Budden and Raekwon confirmed went down.
“Raekwon and his man walked in — I seen the tape,” Gillie said on Million Dollaz Worth of Game. “Now, you keep talking shit, n-gga, and in the next episode I’m putting it the fuck out. That n-gga punched you in your fucking face, you fell on the floor and screamed, ‘My eye! My eye!’
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“You sat there screaming about your fucking eye. Then that n-gga’s homie picked you up and sat you on the couch while you was still screaming, ‘My eye! Me eye!'”
