Joe Budden Says He’s “Janice” After Fans Connect Drake’s “Janice STFU” to an Old Pod Joke
On Joe Budden TV, Budden addressed the internet theory that Drake’s “Janice STFU” is aimed at him, after fans resurfaced an old clip where Budden jokingly picked “Janice” as his white-woman alter-ego name when he wants to act like a “Karen.” [Joe Budden TV] Budden said “the internet has put one and one or one and four together” and confirmed, “I’m Janice,” while speculating the connection came from “OVO people,” “Joe Budden people,” or “podcast people.” [Joe Budden TV] In the same segment, the crew revisited past Drake disses at Budden — including a club clip where a “Joe lookalike” appears — and Budden conceded, “All the Joe Budden disses be hard. I ain’t going to lie. Lil B started a trend.” [Joe Budden TV]
Joe Budden Hears Drake’s Flow on Latto’s Album; Latto Says She Raps What’s Really Happening
On Joe Budden TV, Budden reacted to Latto’s Big Mama album by saying one track sounds like it “could have been on” Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss, describing it as using the “shebang flow to a T” and saying it was “too soon” to hear that pattern from another artist — while stopping short of a direct ghostwriting accusation. [Joe Budden TV] On The Breakfast Club, Latto explained that her approach is to address what bothers her in the music: “I wouldn’t be talking about it in the music if it didn’t bother me,” citing the “side bitch conversation that people try to throw on you” as one of the things she and GloRilla have been “addressing a lot.” [The Breakfast Club] She described a situation where a man tried to compensate for calling her “pussy” with money and she declined, saying it “left a bad taste in my mouth,” and that she rapped about it because the music lets her “convey my message with thoughts” and be “intentional.” [The Breakfast Club]
Tyler, The Creator Calls “Objective Top 5” Debates “F***ing Lame” on The Breakfast Club
On The Breakfast Club, after being told his name is not in the top-tier conversation alongside Drake, Kendrick, and Cole, Tyler, The Creator dismissed the framing: “People who fixate on objective top fives are f***ing lame.” [The Breakfast Club] He said he would “rather hear people talk about the s*** they like and love and their favorites instead of who’s the best based on numbers or hit,” and mocked the hypothetical fan insisting a lyricist is elite while not actually playing their albums. [The Breakfast Club] When the hosts pushed back that ranking is “part of the culture,” Tyler held his position. [The Breakfast Club]
Joe Budden TV’s Gayle King Discussion Turns Into a Conversation About Platonic Female Bonds and Whitney Houston
During a Joe Budden TV segment on Gayle King’s ex-husband publicly apologizing for cheating on her 26 years ago, one panelist described having “an intimate relationship with a woman that I do not have sex with that is so important to me,” noting she has never tattooed a man’s name but has her best friends tattooed on her. [Joe Budden TV] She said the deepest hurt she has experienced came from a close female friend rather than a romantic partner: “A man never hurt my feelings like my bestie has.” [Joe Budden TV] Another speaker invoked Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford as a reference point for understanding deeply bonded same-sex friendships. The segment also included a portion where co-host Ice was teased about bisexual rumors that had circulated online. [Joe Budden TV]
Jeezy on The Breakfast Club: Survival Rap Was Never Meant to Be a How-To
On The Breakfast Club, Jeezy distinguished between owning firearms to “protect their family” versus using them to “go hunt their neighbor down,” saying his era wanted “aggressive music” but that did not always mean acting on it “unless I had to.” [The Breakfast Club] He acknowledged that “that music probably did cause some kids to do that back then who was already feeling like, well, okay, so we ain’t fighting,” conceding a gap between the artist’s intent and some listeners’ response. [The Breakfast Club] He noted that you never hear a country artist like “Garth Brooks say he going to go slide,” then delivered a parody of a hyper-violent rap bar to illustrate how normalized that language sounds in the genre. [The Breakfast Club]
Joe Budden Podcast Debates Which Mary J. Blige Songs Clear the “Whole Restaurant Sings Along” Bar
On Episode 934 of The Joe Budden Podcast, the table debated what qualifies a record as truly universal, with Joe describing the standard as a song so big that “the whole restaurant” starts singing when it comes on. [Joe Budden Podcast] Mary J. Blige came up as a candidate, with the table tossing out “You Remind Me” and “I’m Going Down.” Budden said Mary has “about 15” records “in the conversation” but argued that “a lot of Mary’s best records” are not upbeat enough to fit his specific category. [Joe Budden Podcast]
Joe Budden Complains About Long Graduation Speeches; Gets Told Yearbooks Are Now Digital
On Episode 934 of The Joe Budden Podcast, Budden said graduation ceremonies could be cut by 30 minutes by eliminating student speeches, singling out quotes like “Remember, this is your first shot at life too.” [Joe Budden Podcast] When he asked whatever happened to putting those quotes in the yearbook instead, a co-host told him “the yearbook is digitized” and “they don’t make yearbooks anymore,” though another voice pushed back: “Yes, they do. They sure do.” [Joe Budden Podcast] Someone suggested the yearbook has been reduced to a “pamphlet.” [Joe Budden Podcast]
Chicago Rapper LStreetz Says She Wants to Represent “Women in Rap Evolving” and Gamer Culture at the Same Time
In a profile, Chicago rapper LStreetz described what she wants her story to represent: “Chicago resilience,” “women in rap evolving without having to shrink themselves or fit into one stereotype,” and “gamer culture” simultaneously. [Rap Industry] She said her priorities are staying “consistent,” “authentic,” and “build[ing] her own lane without waiting for permission.” [Rap Industry]
