Rory and Mal have reacted to their former co-host Joe Budden being ranked as Complex’s No.1 Hip Hop Media Personality, referring to their former boss as a “cat burglar.”
In the latest episode of their New Rory & Mal podcast, the duo sifted through Complex’s list, which went live on April 3, and referred to their former host as a “thief” and “cat burglar” due to their financial issues with Budden that ultimately ruined their time on his podcast.
“The thief!” Mal exclaimed. “The cat burglar. Big integrity … look at the cat burglar staring off into the next house he wants to run in. That’s big cat! Quiet as a mouse.”
“I’m keeping my non-bias the way I have this entire time,” Rory interjected. “I didn’t wanna defend Adam22, nor do I wanna defend this gentleman, but he should be in the Top 5, and that’s based off what Hip Hop media is now. So I’m not sure if I’m giving a compliment right now by saying I think these people should be in the Top 5.”
Previously serving as co-hosts of Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast, Rory was unexpectedly fired from the podcast after weeks of disputes, and Mal stepped away from the pod shortly after in May 2021. Last February, Mal joined The Personal Party podcast where he said there’s no chance of reconciliation.
“I don’t respect him at all,” Mal stated. “Shake his hand? I’ll shake the room before I shake his hand. That’s just what it is. It’s not even about the business or the money. It’s a lot of money, it’s a lot of money, bro, that me and Rory walked away from. It’s a lot of money that was taken out of our pockets. It’s a lot of money that still to this day, we don’t have no lawyers going after it. Keep it. We got our own bag.”
He continued: “But, with that money that we walked away from, with that, what was owed to us that we walked away from, that was also me walking away from a relationship and a chapter of life that, once I walk away, you know, that door never opens again.”
Elsewhere, Budden has continued to claim that he did the right thing in allowing his co-hosts to leave and said his podcast is the best it’s ever been.
“I think this is the best that this podcast has ever been,” Budden recently professed to Akademiks on his Off The Record podcast. “By far to me, though. I’m not saying that people out there would feel like another era was the greatest era. I’m saying that this is the best that this podcast has ever been.
“And I’m saying that in the ability to what we can speak about, how we can speak about it, how many opinions and different perspectives, how many people are researched and well-versed in these different topics. There’s topics that come up and I gotta shut the fuck up and throw the ball to my older co-hosts.”
Shortly after Joe Budden was deemed the top dog on Complex’s list, the brash media personality sat down for an interview with the publication, where he said Hip Hop media personnel are bigger than rappers now.
“I learned that when I started working here,” he said. “Because I was coming in every morning with Ak [Akademics] and all the young people in my life were familiar with him. I wasn’t. So it was like, ‘Oh shit, this guy’s got some following somewhere.’ Like, let me get hip.”
Joe Budden is such a little cutie pie 😍
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Either sue or STFU. Two “men” that don’t know anything about accounting have so much to say about money. GTFOH.
Lol, I guess brokeys can see other brokeys because I guarantee you don’t get business. It’s not about accounting, it’s intellectual property. If someone is a part of something that gets bigger they are entitled to it. They would absolutely get money if they tried. Joe admitted there wasn’t original contracts. I could name countless people that got money for something they were a part of. Go back to taking orders.
Lol.. intellectual property? So it been the jbp podcast would indicate who actually owns it so won’t you go back to taking orders and understanding what you’re talking about before you try to talk s*** to somebody else idiot
Jesus this is getting pathetic. Anyone who understands business knows they’re lying. Go watch their first episode they admitted Joe probably overpaid them. Views start falling off now he’s a thief.
I have alot of hip hop circles. Mainstream and underground, and I couldn’t tell you who watches JB. Must be teenagers.
I’m not gonna lie I respected Joe as a rapper he’s got some songs (not pump it up lol) I still bump to this day I thought he was a solid rapper in his day but as a media personality nope not at all. Ranking him the number 1 media personality just proves what a garbage state hip hop media is currently in.
People listen to woman beating, sexual assaulting Joe budden still
One thing certain and 2 things for sure, JBP is the official podcast out right now, period.. I’m a truck driver and he definitely keeps me awake as I watch and listen.. Great topics, funny, NOT TOO MUCH ON JOE. Those other keys (I refuse to say their names) doesn’t know business.. HOW YOU GOING TO GET ROBBED ON THE OWNER’S PODCAST?? Really doesn’t make sense.. JBP keep doing ya thing and keep the content over everything coming 👌 💯
Yall are stupid as hell. Just because you get hired somewhere and business starts booming, doesn’t mean you get ownership. If you wasn’t a part of the start up, and your name isn’t on it, you don’t get ownership. The Tampa Bay Bucs were trash. Tom Brady joins they win a superbowl. Is Brady going in the office saying he gets ownership??? Mal joined the JBP a yr after it started. Don’t get mad because he’s thriving without Yall!!!!!!
Yall are stupid as hell. Just because you get hired somewhere and business starts booming, doesn’t mean you get ownership. If you wasn’t a part of the start up, and your name isn’t on it, you don’t get ownership. The Tampa Bay Bucs were trash. Tom Brady joins they win a superbowl. Is Brady going in the office saying he gets ownership??? Mal joined the JBP a yr after it started. Don’t get mad because he’s thriving without Yall!!!!!!