Joe Budden has declared an early winner in the escalating beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
In the hours that followed the release of Kendrick’s “Euphoria” — a response to Drizzy’s own diss tracks “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle” — Budden appeared on Akademiks‘ livestream and offered his thoughts on the latest developments in the feud.
The rapper turned podcaster claimed that Kendrick is the victor after this first round of diss records, but said he was looking forward to seeing how Drake would respond.
“Oh, your calculator’s broke,” Budden began after Akademiks said he had “Drake up 1-0.”
When Ak claimed that “Push Ups” is “absolutely” better than “Euphoria,” Budden — along with his podcast co-hosts who were in the room with him — began laughing. “There’s a reason y’all thought that shit was AI,” he remarked.
The former Slaughterhouse MC then claimed that he is “the only remaining media that is objective,” but Akademiks reminded him of his own past issues with Drake.
“No, I wanna see Drake bleed,” Budden countered. “But I also want to see my favorites bleed — pause. I want to know how my favorites respond to getting punched in the face. And Drake has had a smooth ride his whole career — well, except for that Pusha T fight.
“I want to see what happens when someone that’s on your level is in front of your face. Not Pusha T who you can plaque shame, SoundScan shame, catalog shame. There’s a n-gga in front of you now that you have to respect, even if you don’t like him.”
He continued: “I love Drake and I’ma love him more if he do what he needs to do. Finish your food! I come from the ‘finish your food’ era, my n-gga. We don’t play with the food!
“This ain’t Meek Mill no more. All that ‘Charged Up,’ ‘Is it a world tour or your girl’s tour?’ — all of that was flop. You had a decade long run of killing n-ggas; now, the Boogeyman is here!”
Joe Budden gets called in by Akademiks during stream, he says Kendrick won this round but he cant wait for Drake's response
"I want to see Drake bleed… I want to know how my favorites respond to getting punched in the face… I love Drake and imma love him even more if he do… pic.twitter.com/TdSsoHa3Ny
— SOUND | Victor Baez (@itsavibe) April 30, 2024
Joe Budden had earlier criticized Kanye West for inserting himself into the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
During a recent episode his self-titled podcast, the “Pump It Up” rapper slammed Ye’s decision to take shots of his own at the 6 God on a remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick’s “Like That,” which reignited the long simmering tension between the Compton and Toronto natives.
“Kanye, sit your fucking ass down somewhere,” Budden said. “Mind your fucking business. This is not about you. This is some attention-seeking shit that you’re doing. Kanye has been trying to insert himself in this since the beginning.
“You had your shot. You didn’t take it. That n-gga was gunning for you. Y’all all ran except for Pusha … It’s not smooth when it’s not your beef.”
However, Budden did praise West’s production on the track: “I’ll tell you one thing — what he did to that beat? Woo! Any time Kanye get around a choir, magic is coming.”
On his remix of the chart-topping hit, Kanye aimed numerous jabs at Drake in defense of Kendrick, opening the song by saying: “Yo Dot, I got you.”
He later rapped: “Y’all so out of sight, out of mind/ I can’t even think of a Drake line/ Play J. Cole, get the pussy dry.”
Though Joe Budden isn’t a fan, Metro Boomin appeared to co-sign Kanye West’s diss after it dropped by posting a photo of the two of them together in the studio.
Ak is a clown
Joe Budden is right
If I had a Dog in this fight it be Kendrick but Euphoria wasn’t Killshot. If you wait you gotta eviscerate. Nah, I got Drake up in a tight one if this were a boxing match.💯
Drake wouldn’t even be in the ring if it were a boxing match considering he doesn’t write the lyrics himself. Which is why I don’t understand the appeal of this beef.
We long past that shit in hip hop. Don’t pick and choose. Furthermore, even though I don’t fuck with either of these dudes, Real Mothaphuckin Gs wasn’t written by Eazy, and it’s one of the hardest disses of all time. If we’re going down that same road, neither was Fuck with Dre Day, Dre’s part definitely and Snoop’s part maybe. That’s two on the Mt. Rushmore of disses right there.
Dr. Dre was known more for producing than rapping. Pretty sad if all you do is rap and you don’t even write your own lyrics in my opinion especially when you act tough. Definitely not long passed that. People bring it up all of the time to this day for good reason.
@Yarg ,
Bruh, don’t start that dumb shit. People started saying that shit about producers just for him after Cube exposed that he didn’t write shit, neither him or Eazy did. So suddenly it became law when that had never been anything anyone said before Cube got in their ass in 1991. Some of us remember. Quik wrote his shit. RZA wrote his shit. I can pull a gang of producers who rapped too who wrote their own shit. Matter of fact, no one cared since we had a gang of popular songs like the Geto Boys shit that Scarface was writing for Bushwick and all kinds of other hits from the 80s that we know in retrospect emcees weren’t writing. The only reason it’s a dig is because of Cube going at NWA. I don’t fuck with Drake, but this is what y’all made it.
Yarg,
Also btw, that’s the rumor about D.O.C. writing all of that shit, not just Dre’s part. Are you going to take it off your playlist?
you’re stuck in the 90’s lmao, also Easy E didn’t write that shit either.
Still 0-0. Different factions will tell you different. Crowning any of this mediocrity is what’s brought us this low.
Amen.
Not sure a guy who had his own beef with Drake (how pathetic is it to write that) can be objective on the matter. Probably needs to sit this one out like his 50 collaborators who suddenly woke up after they all co-signed him for 15 years and then decided now he’s not black enough. Now he’s not down. Now he didn’t have the same experience as us, so we got problems with that, which is corny in itself. It’s the most Ironic part of this nonsense too since the bullshit is coming from Southern and West Coast dudes whose regions got that very same energy from East Coast and NY dudes in particular forever and a day. Yet we have these same people including Kendrick co-signing Iggy Azalea. I just can’t fuck with the bullshit. Never will.
You really a die hard drake nut gobler huh