HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty Joe Budden is beefing with conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Alex Jones. We’re guessing this wasn’t on your 2021 bingo card. Jones is probably most known as the guy who told anyone who would listen that the Sandy Hook mass shooting didn’t actually happen. Actually, it did, and he was sued for defamation due to his lies about the tragedy, and lost. That said, Jones got all in his feeling when Budden criticized comedian and podcaster Andrew Schultz for interviewing Jones, who the rapper referred to as “the KKK guy.” Apparently, that’s all he needed to go in a Budden on his InfoWars site. [embedded content] According to Jones, Budden is the real racist. “I will not sit there and have racist Black people who are feeding at the corpora...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty On Monday, May 17, DJ Olivia Dope accused Joe Budden of sexual harassment after leaving her gig at the Joe Budden Network a few months ago. The rapper turned podcaster has responded to her allegations, and has apoogized. According to Dope, Budden sexually harassed her when he was a guest on episode no. 16 of See, The Things Is, the female-led podcast that she was still a part of at the time. The detailed account she shared on Instagram included timestamps that corresponded to the aforementioned episode of the podcast where she provided a play by play of Budden speaking to her inappropriately and making her uncomfortable while she attemptoed to to laugh it off. Budden issued a statement to Rolling Stone on Tuesday, May 18, and said,...
Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty As the world continues to wait on pins and needles over the 2020 election humor is in high demand right now. One reality television star got some comedic relief from a misfired tweet. As spotted on Hot New Hip Hop a meme with good intentions didn’t connect as intended but went viral as a funny fail. An account @Vesta shared a photo collage that featured Joe Budden one side and a pile of pennies on the other side. The quote was “a lot of y’all are lacking” inferring that folks need some common sense. Given that the photo should have been rapper Common, who says he and Tiffany Haddish are still a thing, the miss quickly turned the meme into a whole different meme. So much so that it landed on Cyn Santana’s radar. The “Walk With Me” rapper’s former love qu...
Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty It’s been an interesting couple of days for one Joe Budden, to say the least. The rapper turned podcaster, and cultural commentator has had to deny a bevy of wild claims. Joe Budden is doing some serious damage control right now. Budden has been accused by his ex, Tahiry Jose, for being physically abusive during their time together. A leaked recording of a phone conversation between himself and his former fiancée Cyn Santana also hinted at the “Pump It Up” rapper got physical with her as well. On top of that, court documents that also “leaked” revealing Joe allegedly likes to help his dog release sexual tension by masturbating the sexless canine, and Santana, followed by Twitter, was quite disturbed by the practice. Now, Budden is on defense and hopped on In...
Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty On Monday (August 31), Tahiry Jose went on the record to say her ex-boyfriend, Joe Budden, was physically and verbally abusive to her. Budden addressed the allegations on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast and basically said that although their relationship was definitely toxic, he accused her of being a liar and a clout chaser. Previously, Jose said Joe broke her nose, broke her rib and pushed her down the stairs. However, although he copped to their relationship being “toxic,” he disputed the details of her story, and even said she is “a cancerous toxic liar.” Putting it on them both being young, Budden said “You were abusive,” noting that today’s “climate” allows him to admit this. He added, “You used to beat my ass.” Budden was adamant that he ...
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Love & Hip Hop: New York star Tahiry Jose got real candid about the abuse she allegedly endured during her relationship with Joe Budden. In an interview with Hollywood Unlocked’s tea spiller Jason Lee that was released on Monday (Aug.31), Tahiry got real candid about her past relationship with retired rapper turned cultural commentator and podcaster Joe Budden. During the interview, Jose spokes on how she dealt with past abusive relationships following the incident involving her now ex-boyfriend and former friend, Vado, that saw him lunge at her and forcefully grab during an episode of Marriage Bootcamp. Lee saw the opening and directly asked if Budden was the abusive ex she was talking about, and after a few seconds of silence, she confirmed tha...
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz There won’t be no “New Joe Budden” being heard on Spotify anymore. The former rapper turned cultural commentator Joe Budden made the announcement that his insanely-popular podcast won’t be returning to the streaming platform when his contract with Spotify ends next month during a recent episode of the show. Budden informed listeners of The Joe Budden Podcast, “September 23rd, I cannot tell you where this podcast will be, but as it stands, I can tell you where it will not be, and that is Spotify,” on the episode dropped on Wednesday (Aug.26). Budden also used the moment to detail his history with the Swedish owned company since signing his exclusive deal with the streaming platform nearly two years ago. He also claims that his podcast exceeded Spotify...
Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty For years Joe Budden has made his desdain for Logic known so when the No Pressure rapper announced his retirement from the rap game, Budden naturally celebrated like it was 1999. Well, it turns out that Budden’s constant criticism of Logic took an emotional toll on the Maryland rapper as he revealed that not only did Joey’s words cut deep, but it even led to depression at one point in his career. During an interview with Hot 97 last week, Logic began explaining how social media would bruise and batter his ego before Joe Budden eventually led him to a place no one wants to be. “I literally have no issue with Joe Budden. I never met him, I don’t know him, I never shaken his hand, we’ve never had a conversation as men,” Logic Expla...