Joe Budden and Cam’ron are currently embroiled in a scathing back-and-forth over comments the former made about rappers working in the media space.
It all started on Friday (April 28), when the Killa Cam shared a snippet from an episode of The Joe Budden Podcast that aired back in February. It features N.O.R.E. taking what Cam deems as “shots” against him and his newfound career as a sports commentator.
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“You know what’s crazy? I’m looking at these rappers trying shows now — you know, rappers from our era — and they are so failing,” N.O.R.E. says to Budden in the clip. “… They doing sports shows, they doing comedy shows. They talkin’ about, ‘Yo, I’m up. I’m just doing this for fun.’ No you are not!”
Budden replies: “It’s great to see people fail … You can’t take the blueprint and hire different contractors. They sellin’ ass out here, huh?”
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In response, Cam’ron — never one to bite his tongue — took to Instagram to warn N.O.R.E. off of “Hoe Buddons.”
“Damn @therealnoreaga told you I couldn’t trust you. Lolol. Im just fucking wit ya,” he wrote. “But what other rapper from the 90’s got the sports and cooking show? U know u my n-gga for life. But ya man hoe buddons threw u under the bus on the very Nx episode [slapped forehead emoji] said he didn’t know who u was talking bout. I don’t give a fuck how his numbers is N.O. Stay away from that crack head!!!!”
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Budden saw the Dipset rapper’s comments and took to his Instagram Stories to directly address him.
“Now that n-gga know he too sensitive to do this with me,” he wrote. “Chill before I feel like playin’ back & you start makin’ calls again. Focus on your suits and your pink set, that “crackhead” lapped you looooonnnnnnngggggg ago.”
This isn’t the first time that N.O.R.E.’s appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast has whipped people into a frenzy.
Earlier this month, Taxstone took aim at N.O.R.E. for comments he made about Combat Jack during the same appearance on the podcast.
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N.O.R.E. criticized Combat Jack and Taxstone for signing to Loud Speakers Network and “giving away YouTubes for free” at the start of their podcasting career.
“It’s probably the best audio deal in rap podcast history,” N.O.R.E. said. “I’m keeping it 100. And we still own our IPO. I said, ‘Before me, they gave the YouTubes for free. Them IPOs, they didn’t own, only me and [DJ EFN].”
He continued: “A’lot of y’all dudes was out here giving y’all YouTubes away for free. Y’all was signed to… what’s that shit, Sound? What was the shit that Tax and all them n-ggas was signed to? What’s that label? A dude named Matt ran it. Combat, Tax, all of them was on this label giving they YouTubes away for free. I’m the first dude that had a three-deal for the same crack.”
The comments ultimately didn’t sit well with Taxstone, who is currently in prison awaiting sentencing for shooting and killing Troy Ave‘s bodyguard at Irving Plaza during a T.I. concert in 2016. Addressing N.O.R.E.’s comments in an interview with Complex, Tax had a lot of criticism to dole out.
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“Nore’s Drink Champs is a legendary podcast. I still like it. I have my little issues with Nore, but I don’t hold on to shit too long like other people do. But I still enjoy his podcast because I like Hip Hop and I like rap legends,” Tax began. “But I don’t like when a person tries to act like they’re intelligent and they know what they’re doing all the time and somebody that tries to act like they’re supportive of the culture.”
He continued: “But as far as getting paid and stuff, yeah. Combat got us ads. That’s how we got paid in the beginning. That was the very beginning of podcasts. You know how hard it was to even get a company to believe to put an ad [on the podcast]. But they seen these podcasts is doing 300,000 a week. And that’s when we started selling products like Casper mattresses and Bevel blades. And they seen the products really moving, and they was like, ‘Yo, this is another place to promote and advertise. It’s like, wow. Why are you happy that somebody didn’t succeed? Like why would that be a part of your agenda? This is your agenda and happiness?”
