Joe Budden has made a bold claim about women in Hip Hop, declaring that the thrill surrounding them has died out.
In a clip from an as-yet unreleased episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, the Slaughterhouse MC shared his thoughts regarding the uptick in female rappers over the past few years.
“Y’all ain’t gonna want to hear it from me, but the girl rapper wave is over,” he said. “Just telling you what it is. I’m normally a few months ahead with this stuff, sometimes a few years ahead with this stuff. The girl rapper wave is finito.
“The cream rises to the top, so Latto shall remain; Flo Milli shall remain; Rapsody will always be there, but she wasn’t really a part of [that scene]. But all of that, ‘Go find a girl, send her to Columbia, get it done, put her in the studio with fucking Mike WiLL [Made-It] or any one of them n-ggas’ … all that planting the girl in the scene, getting the record and it taking off — that wave is over.”
He added: “I think labels are looking at it like, ‘Very few of y’all are selling records, it’s too much work to get your coin back, we got to go do brand deals all over the world with ya’ll, ya’ll are expensive, some of ya’ll are annoying,’ and none of these records are working.”
Watch the New Jersey rapper illustrate his point below:
Despite the above comments, Budden applauded Megan Thee Stallion for the success of “Hiss” last month, even though some of his podcast co-hosts had doubts about her and the track.
During an episode of his show in early February, the 43-year-old congratulated the Houston Hottie on topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her diss track aimed at Nicki Minaj.
“A song with no hook, where you’re just firing at n-ggas and with that long speech in it, to go number one, that’s big,” he said. “You gotta give it to her.”
Though some of his teammates claimed that the song’s chart success was “manufactured,” they still gave Meg her props.
“I think it was machine play behind it to make that happen,” Lamar “Ice” Burney said, before adding: “But I don’t want to diminish it; it’s still an accomplishment.”
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Next stop, Only Fans!
Real talk. But here’s the other thing. I don’t think they’ll age well like the female rappers or R&B did from the 90/s 2000/s.
Hoey wants their spot!
I been said this. Latto flopped, Megan’s first week numbers were unimpressive, Sweetie flopped, Coi flopped, the diss track only blew up because of who she dissed. It’ll just be Nicki Minaj and Cardi B (if she ever releases another album). Females been having poor first week sales for a while now. People are getting bored of hearing them rap about their high mileage holes and how much they hate men.
When did this wave really start 🤔 Carry on!!!
When trap/mumble raps with auto tune came in. When you let the bottom feeders shine ass and titties want some too!
I just hope they do OF before they wuit everything altogether. Would love to see some of these girls spread their cheeks and fart.
Now there is man speaking to my soul. Would love to watch all these broads fart and take a sh!t too bruh. Put them in keepingitfunky.com lol
Girl rapper “wave”. Lol. Dude acting like women havent been rapping for the last fifty years. Some will flop, some will make it to the top. As is has always been.
The female rappers getting all the attention are shallow, wannabe strippers. How anyone can listen to several songs from some pole botherer singing about how sweaty her axe wound is just baffles my head.
I think Joe is right. Setting up a female rapper for success is too much work and too expensive to maintain their image. It isn’t always good return on investment as Joe alluded to in his podcast. Quite frankly, I’m tired of twerk/sex music that is usually the theme from many female rap songs. We need better content from male rappers as well!
Never understood how a guy make a living by talking down on women & people listen to this fool like their zombies