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Joe Budden Believes He Played Role in Drake’s ‘Takedown’: ‘I Passed the Baton’


Joe Budden believes he played a role in Drake's "takedown," before passing the baton to Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar. See what he had to say.

Budden hopped into a Twitter Spaces on Monday (June 24), where he took credit for starting to chip away at Drake with their feud before “passing the baton” to Pusha T and ultimately K. Dot earlier this year. The great rap war of 2024 was seemingly kicked off by K. Dot’s atomic verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in March, which jabbed at both Drake and J. Cole. The hip-hop community declared K. Dot to be the victor against Drake, and Lamar figuratively took a victory lap at his Pop Out concert on Juneteenth.

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