Joe Budden has revealed the total amount of earnings from his decorated podcast career, but nobody seems to believe him.
In the latest of his self-titled show, the Hip Hop personality claimed that he’s made around $4 million from podcasting over the last decade, which would average $400,000 per year.
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The conversation was sparked by a question from special guest Doe Boy, who asked Budden: “How much you think you done made off this since you started podcasting?”
After his co-hosts laughed at the audacious enquiry, the former Slaughterhouse MC replied: “Altogether in the whole 10 years? About $4 mil.”
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Budden’s answer also sparked hilarity, with his fellow hosts unconvinced by the figure. Even Budden himself began to laugh, betraying his sarcasm.
“Yeah, I think about $4 mil,” he continued with a smirk. “Early on we were doing it for free. Then we hit a little lick, Spotify. Then n-ggas left, the building crumbled a little bit. My friends came to save the day. Probably about three and a half to four a half mil.”
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Even Doe wasn’t buying it as he replied: “That’s bap.”
Despite being accused of “lying” by those in the room, the “Pump It Up” rapper insisted that he was serious before claiming that his gross profit (before taxes) was closer to $7 million.
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He then offered some words of inspiration for the podcast hustlers at home: “Years of hard work, y’all can do it to. It’s not unachievable. This is not unimaginable. If you work hard and keep your head down to the finish line and just focus on your content.”
Check out the clip below, which begins at about the 2:54:30 mark.
Budden’s podcasting success wasn’t the only highlight of the episode.
Elsewhere in the episode, Joe Budden urged J. Cole to hit back at Kanye West’s recent disses as a way to redeem himself in the eyes of many Hip Hop fans.
Budden claimed that the Dreamville rapper needs to seize the opportunity to lyrically “kill” Kanye to restore his reputation after his divisive apology to Kendrick Lamar.
“This moment is J. Cole’s free parking,” he said. “I told y’all that J. Cole was gonna have to find somebody to kick his ass, and it couldn’t be nobody chump and small. There is no better person than Kanye, the n-gga that you been had smoke with, the n-gga that been had smoke with your OG Hov, who’s now on a record saying some shit about you.
“I know you that home with the sage. You sagin’ yourself. I know that this beef shit is not in your spirit, but if you were to wake up one day in a different mood, now is the time. Kill him. Make an example out of this non-rapping n-gga.
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“It would be easy too. Jump in and tell us the difference in how you felt about the Kendrick shit and why the rest of the field, it’s yo ass […] I think that’s the reprieve that he needs. I think it solves all of J. Cole’s problems.”
Budden was referring to Kanye’s shots at Cole on his remix of Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” as well as in his typically explosive interview with Justin Laboy.
