Joe Budden labels Drake a “Karen” in podcast rant
Joe Budden recently went on a fiery rant about Drake following the news that the Toronto emcee is pursuing a defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG). Drizzy has retracted his petition concerning the use of streaming bots. However, he has gone ahead with a defamation lawsuit.
Drake has asserted that because Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ has lyrics suggesting he is a paedophile, it is defamatory, and Joe Budden, as someone who has always had contempt for Drake decided to air his grievances about the Scorpion creator ruining hip-hop.
The rapper-turned-podcaster went on a lengthy and scathing rant about Drizzy, labelling him a hypocrite over his claim that UMG incited a 2024 shooting at his Toronto mansion and called him out for attempting to prevent the promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’.
Angrily, Budden began, “When [Drake] and I got into whatever we got into and them fans showed up to my house, he incentivized that, he cheered them on, he put them on a public platform, he applauded that behaviour!”
He then addressed Drake hanging out with the Canadian rapper Top5, who recently beat a murder case and threatened to shoot Kendrick if he came to Toronto, shouting, “You at the game running around with this n*gga that has been threatening Kendrick saying, ‘I’m a kill you, I’m a do X, Y, Z!’ You know how you running around with and you know what you doing, and you know what you threatening. So if you that [tough guy], then be that. But don’t be that and also Karen out here. I don’t like it. It’s nasty and disgusting!”
Budden insisted that Drake is suffering with his identity and thinks he is a tough guy, stating, That’s my beef with ‘Mob Ties’ Drake. I miss Drake. There are too many artists that are suffering from an identity crisis or begin to lose themselves when they get in this shit. I miss the original Drake.”
The podcaster added, “The n*gga with the Blackberry and the corny T-shirts that couldn’t dress with no beard that everybody just wanted to get next to and get some of that corny sauce. Y’all knew that n*gga wasn’t like us, but he had the magic touch.”
After lambasting Drake for changing his sound, image and behaviour, the ‘Pump It Up’ emcee accused the Toronto native of ruining hip-hop, screaming, “This shit hurts. This is like the hip-hop version of the House seats where they’ve been dominated for 90 years and now we got this one small window where we can make a change and see these labels take a fall!”
He concluded, “The few n*ggas that could have done it, y’all end up fighting with each other, taking a deal, and only looking out for yourself. “