Joe Budden has declared Jim Jones the victor in his heated exchange with Pusha T.
King Push took aim at the Dipset rapper on a new Clipse track that premiered at Pharrell’s first Louis Vuitton show in Paris in June, which prompted Capo to respond via a scathing diss track titled “Summer Collection.”
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Pusha has yet to issue a response to Jones or even officially release the aforementioned Clipse song, decisions which Joe Budden believes massively count against him on the scorecard.
“Is it to soon to declare Pusha the loser of the Jim Jones beef yet?” the former Slaughterhouse MC asked his co-hosts on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast.
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“The record ain’t even come out,” co-host Lamar “Ice” Burney chimed in.
“That’s why he lost,” Budden continued. “N-gga, your record ain’t come out. You did that fly fashion week shit, I stepped on it at home and then we never heard your record again.”
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Budden later added: “It wasn’t supposed to do nothing but be background noise at the Louis shit. So yes, it did what it was supposed to do.” He then argued the song has since disappeared from public view, and the hype has since disappeared with it.
“You gotta drop that record,” Budden concluded. “I don’t give a fuck what’s going on with that Clipse album. That record, sell it! That don’t mean it can’t be on their album no more.”
On the unreleased Clipse track, Pusha T fired a series of subliminal shots at Jim Jones, from accusing him of cozying up to his enemy Drake for a feature to rocking fake jewelry.
“You think it’d be valor amongst veterans/ I’m watching your fame escape relevance/ We all in a room but here’s the elephant/ You chasing a feature out of your element,” he rapped.
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He continued: “And those lab diamonds under inspection/ The question marks block your blessings/ It’s no tombstones in the desert/ I know by now you get the message.”
Jones initially responded by posting a video of himself laughing on Instagram while dismissing Pusha’s jabs. “That was not a Top 50 verse,” he said. “Not at all. Still not in my Top 50.”
Capo then returned fire with his own vicious bars on “Summertime Collection,” which jacked the beat from the Clipse’s song.
“These two roach n-ggas don’t know what to do with no ray/ Kanye gave you whips/ But that’s what they do to the slaves,” he rapped. “My Name Is My Name/ But they ain’t screaming yet/ They talking about the rapper came/ But we ain’t seen it yet.”
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Taking more shots, Jones spit: “The only beef you know, n-gga, is Arby’s or the Big Mac/ We don’t drive through, we drive by in the car with the big mag/ That last shit you dropped, that shit was garbage/ Take that shit back, plus you got your brother rapping/ What? You tryna bring the Clipse back?/ Talking about your brother, what happened to that boy?/ Looking like they’re selling crack to that boy.”
The pair’s feud appears to stem from previous comments the Harlem native made about Pusha T’s inclusion on Billboard‘s Top 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time list, which placed him at No. 29.
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“He’s nice as shit. He could rap his ass off, but what has he done?” Jones asked on the Rap Caviar Podcast in April. “Nobody has dressed like him. Nobody wants to be like Pusha T. I don’t remember nothing.”
