Joe Budden believes that Kendrick Lamar’s newsworthy verse on “Like That” has exploded “phony friendships.”
On an episode of The Joe Budden Podcast from Sunday (March 24), the Hip Hop personality explained that the instantly iconic K.Dot diss verse aimed at Drake and J. Cole from Future and Metro Boomin‘s new release WE DON’T TRUST YOU exposed how hollow the friendships between many MCs actually are.
Budden brought up the fact that Travis Scott asked Future and Metro Boomin to play the track at Rolling Loud L.A. despite his connection to Drizzy.
“Not you [Travis], hopping around on stage like a fuckity-fuck, saying, ‘Play the Drake diss. I hate these phony friendships. Enough of this.”
Budden suggested that this might bring an end to the artificial relationships that he sees in rap, which Kendrick discussed on “Like That.”
He continued: “I love that Future is the one to break up all of these monetized friendships…All of the Drake all-stars that n-ggas be too scared to press Drake about, that’s [Rick] Ross, that’s [DJ] Khaled, that’s Young Thug, that’s the whole crop…He didn’t do that with Future.”
He also called out Travis directly, saying: “Travis, you phony-ass n-gga…Travis at Rolling Loud: ‘Oh, play this one! Play the diss!’ This was the song!”
Check out the clip below, which begins at about the 25:15 mark.
The drama between Future, Metro, Kendrick and Drizzy began when Hendrix and Metro dropped WE DON’T TRUST YOU, which features a scathing Kendrick Lamar‘s guest verse on the new track “Like That.”
The album has fans speculating as to whether they have both fallen out with Drake.
After hearing that song in particular, fans across social media began wondering what it might mean for Drake and Future.
The two collaborated on quite a number of hits throughout their careers and even co-headlined the Summer Sixteen Tour in 2016, following the release of their joint mixtape, What A Time To Be Alive.
However, fans believed that, additionally, the lyrics to the title track on WE DON’T TRUST YOU not only confirm that Future has cut ties with the 6 God, but also hint that the fallout was caused by a woman both men may have been involved with.
The verse hears the Atlanta native rap: “You a n-gga No.1 fan, dog/ Sneak dissin’, I don’t understand, dog/ Pillowtalkin’, actin’ like a fed, dog/ I don’t need another fake friend, dog/ Can’t be ’bout a ho, ’cause we sharin’, dog/ In yo feelings, n-gga, why you playin’, dog?”
As listeners began dissecting what they believe to be a pretty clear narrative — with the general consensus that Drake may have shared something with a lover that made its way back to Future — other eagle-eyed social media users noticed that Metro Boomin seems to have unfollowed his “Knife Talk” collaborator on Instagram.
Hiphop has become the gayest genre of all, and it’s not even slightly close…
Ain’t really nothing new with rappers calling each other out.
People just getting excited cause raps been boring for a bit.
They’re phony disses. Dudes were shooting at each other before disses came in the 90s. This is some trust fund baby diss shit. Everybody holds Pac up as the one who set this shit off, but he didn’t diss the first person until he got shot. Before that, he dropped Old School on Me Against the World showing love to the East Coast pioneers. Cube dissed NWA after money disputes. Jay and Nas dissed each other over Jay fucking his baby’s mama he’d been with for years. This some publicity stunt shit. Plus it’s wack.
Let’s hear your weak songs. Where’s the link? Why so silent? Thought so, partna!
Shut your hoe ass up. Suburban piece of shit egging this WWE bullshit on.
All 3 are pop stars now. None of them can make a solid diss track at the moment plus there’s no grounds for a beef. Kendrick is forcing this.
Let’s hear your diss track… or are you just dreaming, sleepy boy?
Thank you. Hoes been collaborating for 15 years and sucking each other’s dicks, but now out of the blue, let’s do some diss songs for publicity. It’s disgusting. The above examples point out what disses used to mean. This is some more misguided shit that these corporate assholes have turned the game into. Hey, rap albums aren’t selling like they used to anymore. Could you millionaire rappers at the top of the game that we put you at with our corny articles and whitewashed outlets beef with each other so you can get your fake farm streams up? Like is anyone going to ask any of these people why they’re dissing. I can go back to 2001 and find when Jay went on Hot 97. When Nas went on the radio. I can go back to 95 to the Vibe article after Pac got shot. I can go back to when Cube left NWA. What in the ever living fuck is this baby soft shit about except to put some more poison in the well of the game we used to love?