Joe Budden, TDE 돈 받았다? — 단호히 부인하며 밝힌 진심

나는 TDE한테 돈 받은 적 없어. TDE한테 돈 받은 적도, 어떤 아티스트한테도 돈 받은 적 없어. 나는 살 수 없어. 그게 나를 너희들이랑 다르게 만드는 거지. 난 매주 레코드 레이블에서 전화가 와. 내가 신경도 안 쓰는 거나 그냥 무료로 얘기하고 싶은 걸 돈 받고 얘기해달라고. 근데 내 방식대로 얘기할 거야. 내가 올려주지 않을 걸 돈 주고 올려달라고 하지 마. 나한테 돈 주는 건 실수야.

I am not being paid by TDE. I have never been paid by TDE. I've never been paid by any artist. I can't be bought. That's what makes me so different from y'all who shake a** for the f***ing... I get calls every week from record labels offering to pay me a lot of money to talk about s**t that I don't care about or probably just want to talk about for free, but in my own way that I want to talk about it. Don't pay me to big some s**t up that I'm not gon' big up. Paying me is a mistake.

TDE 매수 의혹을 부인하는 Joe Budden, The Joe Budden Podcast

솔직히 말하면, 나는 '빅 쓰리' 셋 다 좀 실패했으면 좋겠었어. 근데 Kendrick은 끝까지 안 무너졌어. 올라갔지. 셋 다 좀 겸손해졌으면 했는데, 전혀 그렇게 안 됐어. 배틀 전에도 말했어. 이 배틀 끝나면 누군가를 다르게 보게 될 거라고. 근데 걔가 2-for-1 특급으로 두 명이나 바꿔놓을 줄은 몰랐어. 하지만 난 이젠 지나간 일이야. Drake 이 새 앨범이 우리가 알듯이 그 잠재력대로 나온다면, 내가 제일 먼저 와서 힙합에서 보내기 가장 힘든 해를 겪으면서도 그걸 극복해낸 프로세스를 칭찬할 거야.

Truth of the matter, I wanted to see all three of the 'Big Three' fail a little bit. Kendrick just didn't at the end. He went up. I'd like to see them all pegged down a notch. Get some humble pie. It didn't work it at all. And I called it before the battle. I said after this battle, somebody's gon' make us look at somebody different. I didn't know he was gon' hit the two-for-one special on it and make both these n***as different. But that's water under the bridge for me. If this Drake s**t [ICEMAN] comes out and it's sounding like what we know it has the potential to sound like, I'ma be the first one to come in here and big that n***a up on his process and overcoming hardship with one of the tougher years to have in hip-hop.

배틀에 대한 솔직한 심정을 밝히는 Joe Budden, The Joe Budden Podcast