
*Joe Budden‘s on-again-off-again beef with Drake looks to be on-again amid the “Nice for What” entertainer’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG).
Airing out his grievances on the latest episode of his eponymously named podcast, Budden went in on Drake, calling him a “hypocrite” for suing UMG and accusing them of inciting a 2024 shooting at his Toronto home by promoting Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us.”
As discussion continued with his co-hosts on Drake’s impact on the music industry and doing business in the streaming era, the former Slaughterhouse lyricist highlighted his conflict with Drake resulting in his fans going to bat for him by confronting Budden at home and in the streets. A move openly encouraged by the 6 God himself.
“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 behavior and that’s my other beef with the Karen move,” the 44-year-old rhyme slayer-turned podcaster shared.
Drake’s “Karen” vibe is one of two Budden touched on while deeming the “Best I Ever Had” entertainer’s seamless shift from “Karen” to “Mob Ties Drake” as “code-switching.” The description is the heart of Budden’s conflict with the OVO hitmaker’s lawsuit. In his eyes, the legal move is a prime example of Drake using his “Karen” privilege when he doesn’t get his way, despite tough guy claims he makes in his music, Vibe reports.

“You at the game running around with this ni**a that has been threatening Kendrick saying, ‘I’ma kill you, I’ma do X, Y, Z’” …You know who you running around with and you know what you doing and you know what you threatening. So if you are that, then be that. But don’t be that and also Karen out […] I don’t like it. It’s nasty and disgusting,” Budden voiced.
“That’s my beef with ‘Mob Ties’ Drake. I miss Drake. Some too many artists are suffering from an identity crisis or begin to lose themselves when they get in this s**t. I miss the original Drake…The ni**a 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 ni**a wasn’t like us, but he had the magic touch.”
On a larger scale, Budden brought it to hip-hop, claiming the UMG lawsuit is ruining the culture. A culture with a bigger problem at hand from the suit and a lack of “unity” in the genre the suit spotlighted
“There’s no unity in Hip-Hop, none of y’all know what culture means—actually, they’ve been telling y’all what culture means ’cause they own the sh*t. This sh*t is a f**king mess. It’s disgusting. And if you love this sh*t, it hurts!” he stated.
“I’m saddened as a diss track king, as a ni**a who loves to get on the mic and tell lies about my opponent. Horrible things get said [in rap beefs], man. I just don’t like that Karen is [playing]-both sides, the aggressor and the victim…Y’all can have it. It ain’t my Hip-Hop. Maybe I aged out of this s**t faster than I thought I would. But all this s**t y’all doing … nah, not for me. I love [Hip-Hop] too much. Look…He’s well within his right to [sue] so, yes. But no other artist would think about doing it because it’s the end of your career. The same way this is going to be the end of his career.”

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