As if Ebro hasn’t caused enough clamor these past few weeks, his show is the site of yet another news story. This time, Joe Budden walked out on the Hot 97 radio host after sitting through 40 minutes of heated back-and-forth that included talk about his beef with Drake.
Ebro and Peter Rosenberg also have Marisa Mendez on the show. Mendez was fired from Budden’s podcast and the hosts question the Slaughterhouse rapper on his treatment of those who he’s connected with in the industry, a conversation he is not having.
“I don’t think that you guys are able to have an objective conversation number one,” Budden says amidst the banter. “Number two, this podcast conversation is not a conversation I care to have, especially not early in the morning. Number three, if Peter and/or Marisa feel a way, then there are other mediums for that to be discussed if it’s going to be discussed at all. Number four, I certainly didn’t get out of my bed, away from a beautiful, soft woman to come up here.”
Ebro tries to joke about Budden’s new album, Rage And The Machine and asks the rapper if he got approval from legendary rock band Rage Against the Machine for the title. That seemed to be the last straw.
“Next time I come here for an interview, send my manager the talk points. … ” Budden says. “I didn’t know that this would be an utter complete waste of time.”
Once he makes his rounds telling each person in the studio goodbye, Budden leaves and Rosenberg sits back in disbelief at the scene.
“I’ve never seen him in that space where he was utterly dodging, had no ground to stand on on anything,” he says, “acted as if you were just gonna come up here in spite of everything that happened and we were just gonna be like, ‘Oh, I’m excited to promo your album.'”
Budden’s feud with Drake has been one of the most talked about stories in the news cycle for the past month or so. Ebro just gave Drake “Congratulations, you played yourself” nod after Drizzy blasted the New York radio station during his concert series at Madison Square Garden. This came after the host proposed that Eminem was preparing a diss track against Drake, which he insisted was a joke after the Internet exploded with reactions.
In April, rival radio station Power 105.1 was the victim of a failed conversation when Birdman walked out of an interview with The Breakfast Club after demanding the hosts “put some respek” on his name. The Cash Money Records mogul didn’t even last until the show went on air. So gotta give Joe credit where credit is due.
Watch Joe Budden’s interview with Ebro and Peter Rosenberg below.
Fuck Hot 97
Keeping it a buck…don’t blame Joe at all for saying y’all on some drama/troll shit and peaced out. Clowns ambush somebody, dude stays calm and says thanks but no thanks and they spin it that he’s on drugs….foh lames
No ground to stand on? They seem like they went too far. And then say the man had no ground to stand on? Ridiculous. He doesn’t have to discuss in detail why he fired someone. He told them that if she wanted to talk about it that it had to be on different grounds. I don’t care for hot ’97 that much and I’m not even in NY
Hot 97 hasn’t been credible since 01′, i ride with Buddens on this one.
Ebro must be trying to bang the chick Budden fired.
budden handled that well and I agreed with Joe on everything he won that debate with flying colors
#FuckHot97 should be a hashtag by hiphop heads
Budden handle this intelligently. Hot97 have some very lame a$$ dudes working for them… I 100% percent agree with Budden walking out on this lame a$$ hot97 crew…
Just curious but why are there so many Hot 97 haters? Is there a legit reason for it or is it from people that like The Breakfast Club and therefore cannot like a rival station? Enlighten me please…
I can’t speak for anyone else. Personally, they just get on my nerves. I cannot stand Ebro or Paul Rosenberg, always having this need to shine during interviews and not allowing their guests to speak. Sometimes I wonder whether they invite their guests to use them as sounding boards or something.
Peter Rosenberg, it’s Peter Rosenberg.
I thought I was the only one who noticed this. There is a stretch in almost every interview where they just start talking about themselves. I said it a few years ago when Ebro first took over and I’ll say it again now, these guys just aren’t smart or cool enough to have a dope show. I thought Ciph made a smart move to leave and do comedy. Anything is better than working with these clowns.
Fuck hot 97! Get Rage and the Machine! Jump off Joe Beezy!
They were actually right. I went in thinking this was going to be a purposeful ruse of Joe Budden; However, Budden dealt with things in a very bad way. Shows his true character and how he deals with people.
Did you even watch it?
Agreed. Budden was shady and handled things terribly.
Ebro always tries to act like the tough guy, ends up being a pretentious prick. Fuck Hot 97.
Can’t fight petty with petty, if Hot97 really felt they had all that on Joe they should’ve stopped using pettiness to get that point across, obviously Joe couldn’t handle it well with people being wish-washy lowkey shit talking him to the point of him getting angry, they even noticed him getting to that point…smh.
Budden was ambushed by these fucking instigators. I hope the world realizes that Hot.97, Charlamagne, Wendy Williams and TMZ are all one in the same
Fuck this show
I’m not the biggest joe budden fan, but Ebro and Rosenberg did him dirty. I don’t think it’s cool how they treat there guest on air. Talk about that shit in a private. This looks bad on Hot 97.
hot97 is unprofessional garbage
None of these radio stations are hip hop. They don’t give a damn about the music. They just car about the bullshit that comes with that makes headlines that makes them more money!
Joe’s one of them dudes who, when you read what he said, sounds like a woman beating child. But then you hear him say those words in context of the situation and you’re like “alright, I get it”. I mean he still beats women, and acts like a spoiled child, so I may be on to something.
… What the fuck was that? I couldn’t believe how calm he remained and then they try to spin it like “he doesn’t look right, maybe he’s on drugs.”
Kill yourself, Joe Budden. You’re a one hit wonder.
You obviously know NOTHING about REAL HIP HOP! It’s you who should kill your self Smh! LoL
Totally expected from them Trolls at cold 97! How is that station still on the air?
This puts eminem in an awkward position. cus he kno’s drake is nice. but cant say that cus he’ll let down everyone who hates/dont understand all of today’s most successful rappers.
No Eminem doesn’t think Drake is nice because Em likes good music.
Hot 97 is a hot mess
Sound like women sitting around sharing how they feel. Peter sound like he gone cry in the car, nothing near a professional interview. Emotional in they feelings!! Clowns how people act when you cut them off.
Marissa’s a dumb thot anyways. None of the podcast fans wanted her on there. I dont blame Joe for firing her, imo he did the right thing.
F’d up to basically say he seemed like he was on drugs or something. Joe has been doing this stuff since like 03 so I think he pretty much can tell where a conversation is headed to on these type of shows and he clearly didn’t want to take part in it. The whole second part seemed like it was Jerry Springer type crap set up just for the ratings. Ebro seemed a bit disrespectful to Arab as well by sarcastically acting like he cared about the beats and what he does with the beats. Peter is by far the worst though, I couldn’t listen to him but so long. Then he talked shit about “emo” kids online when he a sensitive emo dude himself. He let his feelings get the best of him while forcing what should’ve been a private convo onto someone who didn’t want to make it a public convo. He looks even worse cause Budden didn’t play into it and remained calm while Peter looks the exact opposite. Also not being a morning person I’d be a little annoyed to get up early to put up with that shit too lol
Budden’s a douche. Keep it 100 with the people who kept ya weak ass almost relevant. It IS possible to keep handlin business and to not be a fuckboy to your people in the process. But yes…still Hot97 is still gahhhhbage.
Ebro and Peter are children…
It just shows the kind of hoes a lot of these nobody DJs are. Rosenburg is up there acting like a bitch talking about he “cares for” Joe Budden and all this stupid shit. It’s like I said with this so called beef with Drake too, Budden was coming from a place of telling him to step himself up like he did after “Thank Me Later,” and he was just doing it again, while these cats are on some fuck personal shit that has nothing to do with the music. I don’t want to hear about how DJs and untalented people who spin records feel emotionally. Budden made a very good point when dude was talking about “helping” him by getting a rapper a studio to record a podcast in, lol. Shit is indicative of how jealous people get and how they always want to be responsible for who does what in that industry and why I perfectly understand why Drake keeps a lot of people at arm’s length now that he’s made it to the winner’s circle.
Also, this made it sound contentious when it wasn’t. Budden just wasn’t there for their fuck shit really and wasn’t trying to address the podcast shit at all, which was his prerogative.
Hot 97 been wack since they tried to do Nas dirty by siding with JayZ and Jay still lost.hiphop heads stopped tuning in
niggas did a whole hour talking about drake smh
Whats wrong DiX? Your not gonna cover the Drake/Shania Twain story? Well here you go Drake Stans:
Drake dedicated his Nashville concert to Shania Twain, who was in attendance. Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images
By Andrew Leahey
16 minutes ago
When Drake hosted the 2011 Juno Awards, he focused his attention on Shania Twain during the opening monologue, ad-libbing his way through a short song with help from pianist Chilly Gonzales. “Damn, I’m dying to make you feel like a woman, baby,” he declared at the tune’s end, while those in the audience – including Twain – erupted in laughter.
Whats wrong DiX? Your not gonna cover the Drake/Shania Twain story? Well here you go Drake Stans: Drake dedicated his Nashville concert to Shania Twain, who was in attendance. When Drake hosted the 2011 Juno Awards, he focused his attention on Shania Twain during the opening monologue, ad-libbing his way through a short song with help from pianist Chilly Gonzales. “Damn, I’m dying to make you feel like a woman, baby,” he declared at the tune’s end, while those in the audience – including Twain – erupted in laughter.