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Joe Budden, whose only hit single, 'Pump It Up', finally went gold in 2023, weighs in on the current state of 'girl rap' – calling the fan-made sub-sector 'the end'.
In his most recent episode Joe Budden Podcastthe previous Love & Hip Hop The star called out 'girl rappers' while sharing his disdain for bars after Cardi B released her highly-anticipated single 'Like What'.
“You're not going to want to hear it from me, but the wave of girl rappers is over. I'm just telling you what it is,” Budden said. “The cream rises to the top, so Latto will remain. Flo Milli will remain. Rapsody will always be there, but she wasn't really a part of it [that scene]. But all this, “Go find a girl, send her to Columbia, fix it, put her in the studio with Mike Will. [Made-It] or any of them n-ggas' – the whole thing where the girl plants on the stage, takes the record and takes off – this wave is over.”
Budden's hot shot came on the heels of Cardi B's “Like What (Freestyle),” in which she suggested during the show that the Bronx MC is “afraid” to release her long-awaited album due to fears of possible backlash . he is waiting for her.
“Cardi B is scared and I'm sick of nobody saying it,” Budden said. “Cardi B Afraid to Come Out, She's Coming Out Soon.”
While Budden made some valid points about the carbon copy method currently used by industry across the board, making his case when women dominate and their male counterparts are fighting for their lives and starving for mentors it is disingenuous. The continued lack of genuine concern about the problematic messages that push drug use, violence and misogyny towards women in music and male-only podcast spaces is troubling.
It should also be noted that as a former artist, seeing Budden play into trying to separate women in Rap from their male counterparts is not only reductive but also divisive in a genre that women have had a significant role in co-creating. Then to announce that female rappers are “over” as if you have authority in the space is not only awful but outrageous because it is not supported by any evidence.
In 2021, Cardi B made history in early March, becoming the first female rapper to have five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Two years after she won Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammys. That same year, Megan Thee Stallion won three awards, including Best New Artist. Doja Cat and Chika received Grammy nominations in different categories – during this time and since the new school of male rappers was absent.
Although she hasn't released a full-length album since 2018, Cardi B is constantly releasing music. After its release Breach of privacyCardi has dropped six Top 100 singles (“Please Me,” “Hot Sh-t,” “Up,” “Bongos,” “Tomorrow 2 (Remix)” and the highly decorated single, “WAP”)—which is why Offset took to Instagram to post the caption, “Stop being scary and drop the album s–t is getting crazy [fire emoji].”
Regardless of how you feel about the messages of female artists, over the past five years, women have been leading the charge. When gun violence and drugs sidelined some of Rap's biggest artists, women stepped up and made a name for themselves by giving listeners an alternative to killer music. The bold sound, reminiscent of the glam girl rap pioneered by Lil' Kim, has created a new wave of female bosses who don't take any mess – but that's apparently why Joey and his band of incels are upset.
To keep using the comments “BBL” and “lipo” as a rule only for women when men get them too – we all saw Funk Flex live on the table hitting “CREAM”. Let's not forget Kanye West and Drake (supposedly) – yet any public slander or mention of it while inferring that women in the same genre do the same thing with gimmicks makes no sense. Especially when the trick used on young men is to have 'opps' or be drug kingpins and gang leaders.
The truth is that most of these men with views on women in anything need to find a young man to guide them and guide the inferior because the whole effort to get the clicks of hate on someone who did it further from you. IT IS DONE.