Joe Budden is finding new ways to get into the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud. The rapper-turned-podcaster claims he played a role in “taking down” the 6 God dating back to his 2016 beef with Drake.
Budden went into a Twitter Spaces on Monday (June 24), where he took credit for starting to rip off Drake with their feud before “passing the baton” to Pusha T and eventually K. Dot earlier this year.
“It might sound narcissistic, but I don't think any man is putting Drake down,” he said. “I think I passed the baton to Push, I think Push passed the baton to Kendrick and the job is done now. That's how I feel in my head and in my heart.”
Drake and Budden's feud escalated in 2016 after the New Jersey native criticized Drizzy's Views album. The OVO boss took shots at Budden on “4PM in Calabasas,” and Budden fired back at Drake with a series of diss tracks, including “Making a Murderer, Pt. 1,” “Wake Up,” and “Afraid.”
Drizzy didn't directly respond with a diss track, but he responded by sniping at Budden on “No Shopping” featuring French Montana.
Two years later, Pusha T left a blemish on Drake's resume in 2018 when he claimed Drizzy had a son Adonis — long before Drizzy confirmed the news — in the scathing diss track “The Story of Adidon,” in which Drake didn't answer. .
The great rap war of 2024 seemingly started with K. Dot's solo verse on Future and Metro Boomin's “Like That” in March, which slammed both Drake and J. Cole.
Drake uploaded AI-assisted “Push Ups,” “Taylor Made Freestyle,” “Family Matters” and “The Heart Part 6,” while Kendrick unleashed “Euphoria,” “6:16 in LA,” the diabolical “Meet the Grahams” and the film “Not Like Us” produced by Mustard.
The hip-hop community declared K. Dot the winner over Drake, and Lamar figuratively took a victory lap at his Juneteenth Pop Out concert. He celebrated with thousands of fans inside the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., where Kendrick performed some of those Drake diss tracks for the first time and ran back “Not Like Us” five times in total.
Find Joe Budden's full response below.
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