5), Budden fired off his response to “Fall” on his new podcast episode, “TV & Mayonnaise.” So when Budden called Revival single “Untouchable” “ one of the worst songs I ever heard,” the line was crossed, and the gauntlet was thrown down. On Wednesday (Sept. An additional layer to the Eminem and Joe Budden relationship is the fact that Eminem signed Budden’s group Slaughterhouse to Shady Records, where they remain under contract. Similar to the sports world, rappers are very careful to not critique other rappers, unless they are universally disregarded as unworthy of respect. Joe Budden has created a lane for himself that previously only existed for athletes, becoming the Cris Carter and Shannon Sharpe to Eminem’s Peterson. READ MORE: Joe Budden And 16 Other People Eminem Dissed On ‘Kamikaze’ Album On “Fall,” Eminem says, “Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it/ Or have his body baggage zipped/ The closest thing he’s had to hits is smacking b***hes.” Of the many rappers who caught strays, the one sent Joe Budden’s way felt the most personal. The album is a sharp turn from Revival with a motivated Eminem spending a significant portion of the album lashing out at critics, including journalists and artists like Tyler the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt-both of whom cite Em as an early influence. Eminem unexpectedly dropped his tenth studio album, Kamikaze. On August 31, 2018, hip-hop’s former MVP responded to criticism in a similarly combative fashion. Peterson responded that “watching some of the things they said about me, man, it really hurt me to the core… ‘he’s washed up and this, that, and the other, and he should just retire.’ How dare you?” After news broke that the 33-year-old was continuing his career with the Redskins, both Sharpe and Carter expressed skepticism that the former MVP would be able to perform at a high level again. In a contact sport of a different kind, Washington Redskins running back Adrian Peterson was the subject of harsh criticism from former players-turned-television personalities Cris Carter and Shannon Sharpe. He did indeed fall short in 2017, which led some to question if the battle-tested 45-year-old would reach those heights again.
The album even missed commercial success, being his first album to not reach the RIAA platinum certification. “Into the dark, I plummet/Now the sky’s blackening, I know the mark’s high/Butterflies rip apart my stomach/Knowing that no matter what bars I come with/You’re gonna hark, gripe, and that’s a hard Vicodin to swallow,” he rapped. On its lead single, the Beyonce-featured “Walk On Water,” the Detroit emcee lamented setting the bar so high early in his career, that he was unsure that he could clear it again as a middle-aged veteran.
Even with features from the likes of Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, and Alicia Keys, Revival disappeared from hip-hop fans’ collective consciousness like an Instagram Story. It was met with mixed reviews and a relatively lethargic commercial response. It should have been to make better music.” “ Eminem’s response to the criticism of his last album should not have been to lash out at every critic. Revival was a mix of the worst impulses from his worst work. Unfortunately, the Detroit rapper went back to that well one time too many for Revival, surrounding more navel-gazing pop ballads with 101-level political discourse and scatological humor. Dre, but were also all huge commercial hits. Em’s late-career singles “Not Afraid,” “Love The Way You Lie,” and “The Monster,” are more Dr. Instead of finding a new way to address the world that was changing around him, he responded by releasing Revival. The other aging emcee who had a turning point in 2017 was Eminem. Instead of becoming bitter, Joe Budden responded to the changing world around him by parlaying his charisma and insider’s perspective into becoming hip-hop’s most popular talking head on Complex’s Everyday Struggle, while still hosting his increasingly popular, self-titled podcast.
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Even his Joe Budden TV YouTube channel and his early adoption of Twitter are examples of the many trends Budden set in hip-hop culture while others received the credit and accolades.
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The voyeuristically personal Mood Musik mixtape series would inspire fan-turned-nemesis Drake, among many others, to bare their innermost thoughts and demons in their music. He served as a co-host of Hot 97’s morning show in 2004-foreshadowing his career as a podcaster. #JoeBuddenPodcast post shared by CCD of Spotify | EP at Revolt on at 6:16am PDTīesides creating content, he also had a knack for being ahead of the curve and forecasting trends.