Joe Budden has made it loud and clear how he feels about Michael B. Jordan, labeling the actor “corny” for his recent viral interaction with Lore’l.
Jordan confronted the media personality, who he used to be classmates with, at the Creed III screening in Atlanta last week for allegedly once calling him “corny.”
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“We know each other; we go way back, all the way to Chad Science in Newark,” Lore’l said while interviewing Jordan on the red carpet, to which the actor replied: “Corny kid, right?” with an unamused look on his face.
“I did not say that! Misquoted for sure,” Lore’l said in an attempt to defend herself, prompting Jordan to stand firm, responding: “Oh no, I heard it.”
Michael B. Jordan was referring to an interview Lore’l gave on The Undressing Room Podcast in 2021, where she admitted that she and others used to tease the Creed star for his name and passion for acting.
“To be honest with you, we teased him all the damn time because his name was Michael Jordan. Let’s start there, and he was no Michael Jordan,” she said, comparing him to the NBA legend.
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“And he also would come to school with a headshot. We lived in Newark, that’s the hood,” she continued. “We would make fun of him like, ‘What you gonna do with your stupid headshot!?’ And now look at him!”
Joe Budden weighed in on the much-discussed moment on his eponymous podcast earlier this week, and didn’t hold back.
“Dawg, you doing that to a girl is some corny n-gga shit,” he barked. “You being Michael B. Jordan today — allegedly sexiest man alive in all of these blockbuster movies, during your highlight week, you’ve probably never been more visible than you are right this second — and that’s what you do to her?”
Budden then brought up Michael B. Jordan’s rumored taste for white women — including British model Amber Jepson, whom he was linked to earlier this year following his high-profile split from Lori Harvey.
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“And if I bring back them white girl rumors, then it’s gonna sound even crazier!” the podcast host continued. “‘Cause why you talking to our sisters like that on the red carpet? We don’t even talk to white bitches like that. But I’m not gonna make it racial; they say I make everything racial. That was corny of him to speak to that girl like that.”
He added: “Aye, Creed. What’s this n-gga’s name? Aye, Creed. In case you were confused, that corny ass shit you did is why n-ggas think you corny! You n-ggas keep thinking that money hides corniness.”
After catching flack for his comments, with social media users bringing up his own history of making disparaging remarks about Black women, the former Slaughterhouse rapper dug his heels in.
“If any other Black multi millionaire embarrassed a woman working on a red carpet cuz she thought he was corny in 7th grade y’all would call him a lot more than corny,” Budden wrote in an Instagram Story on Wednesday (February 1).
He added: “Also i work for me & im not firing myself. I said what i said, get off my dick. Love, management.”
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While Michael B. Jordan has yet to respond to either Joe Budden or Lore’l, the latter has since attempted to clear up her awkward red carpet moment with the award-winning actor.
Speaking to TMZ earlier this week, the Morning Hustle host denied “bullying” Jordan in high school and claimed her original comments have been taken out of context.
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“I feel like I admitted exactly what I said, and then even those words got turned around,” she said. “When I told this story, it was super lighthearted. It wasn’t even in the sense of me breaking down the entire school experience.
“FYI we went to school together for one year, so the narrative that I bullied him all throughout high school — this was 7th grade, we were like 12 years old, and everybody made fun of each other. I would get joked on ’cause of my complexion!”
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Additionally, audio of Lore’l’s appearance on The Undressing Room Podcast reveals it was actually her co-host Dominique Da Diva who referred to Michael B. Jordan as “a nice, corny guy” while discussing his relationship with Lori Harvey.
