The fire between Joe Budden and rapper Lil Yachty continues to burn, as Lil Boat has clapped back to comments Budden made on his show, Everyday Struggle.
In a conversation with Joey Bada$$ regarding Playboi Carti on Monday’s show (June 12), a conversation about star status and Lil Yachty sprung up. While Bada$$ and Budden’s co-host DJ Akademiks said that the 19-year-old was a star thanks to his business deals and commercial appearances, the Rage & The Machine musician sang a different tune.
“You’re not a mega star when you sell 40,000 records,” he said, in reference to Yachty’s lackluster sales of Teenage Emotions. “Yachty has good business, he’s not a star.”
In a now-deleted Instagram photo, Yachty clapped back at Joe for his comments, writing “lol don’t talk to me about album sales sir @joebudden” with two laughing cat emojis.
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The picture he posted said that Budden’s album sales totaled 22,477 copies, with 10,196 in pure album sales. The picture says that these sales are “certainly not a bad number for Joey.”
Budden and Yachty first crossed paths in early-May when the young MC paid a visit to Everyday Struggle‘s set, where they discussed 360-business deals, what he hopes to get out of the hip-hop game and overall happiness.
The comments on stardom begin around the 54-minute mark.