Joe Budden has argued that Tyler, The Creator has the edge on J. Cole in multiple categories, despite the Dreamville leader being a part of Hip Hop’s “Big Three.”
Budden and his co-hosts shared their thoughts on Tyler’s new album Chromakopia on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, which led to them reassessing where the Grammy-winner ranks next to his peers, including Cole.
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After they agreed that Tyler belongs in an “A minus” tier below Kendrick Lamar and Drake, on the same level as the likes of Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert, Budden explained where he believes Tyler eclipses Cole.
“I give Tyler points that I can’t give Cole. Star crew — all of them. He’s got Frank Ocean,” he said, praising the success of his since-defunct Odd Future crew which also birthed Earl Sweatshirt and The Internet.
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“I also give Tyler — I saw the shift in how rap videos were directed when he hit the scene. 2010, 2011, the nasty shit with the roach. Once that video [‘Yonkers’] hit, videos changed.”
He continued: “Those are the two I’d say wholeheartedly. And I give Tyler more heart than Cole. I feel like Cole agrees with a lot of the Tyler takes, but Tyler says it. Cole won’t.
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“All of this sounds unfair to Cole because we should be talking about the Tyler project. I don’t know how we got to Cole, but I give those three to Tyler in the sliders over Cole. Cole gonna have to do something to fix that heart slider.”
Check out the segment at the 1:51:10 mark below.
Joe Budden’s opinion of J. Cole was much higher just earlier this year.
Prior to the Kendrick Lamar versus Drake beef that Cole controversially bowed out of, the former Slaughterhouse rapper argued that the North Carolina native had surpassed his “Big Three” contemporaries.
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“I got Cole as my one,” he said on his self-titled podcast in February after Cole shared a snippet of his menacing Might Delete Later track “Crocodile Tearz.”
“I’m hoping that Kendrick’s next album could try to fix that for me. Drake is doing his Chuck E. Cheese shit. Good for him. That’s it now. Yeah, that’s it.”
Budden went on to share his excitement for J. Cole’s upcoming album The Fall Off, which has been teased as his last.
“Remember when Kendrick dropped the title of the last shit and we were trying to figure out what that meant?” he asked his co-hosts. “When I heard The Fall Off and with him hinting at maybe retirement, I thought that would be the marriage between concept and title.
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“But after watching some of these vlog clips where he’s just in the restaurant talking to the older lady that doesn’t know who he is. Classic J. Cole. Perfect rollout shit again. This n-gga’s the best at this.”
