Joe Budden reacted to the news that a judge dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against his record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), and he was far from gracious.
“For the people that missed it… Yesterday evening, somewhere around six or seven o’clock, it was finally confirmed – the news broke that Drake’s a b—h,” Budden says in the below clip.
Budden and the rest of the cast then broke out into laughter.
Budden went on to say that he told his viewers that the lawsuit would be thrown out last year.
Joe budden podcast reacts to react to Drake lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar ‘Not Like Us’ has been dismissed by a judge pic.twitter.com/Szw3hvx5yr
— joebuddenclips/fanpage (@chatnigga101) October 11, 2025
Back in January, Budden claimed that the UMG lawsuit was ruining the culture, and that this “wasn’t his Hip-Hop.”
“I’m saddened as a diss track king, as a n—a who loves to get on the mic and tell lies about my opponent. Horrible things get said, man. I just don’t like that Karen is [playing]-both-sides, the aggressor and the victim…Y’all can have it. It ain’t my Hip-Hop,” Budden said at the time. “Maybe I aged out of this s–t faster than I thought I would. But all this s–t y’all doing… nah, not for me. I love [Hip-Hop] too much. Look, he’s well within his right to [sue] so, yes. But no other artist would think about doing it because it’s the end of your career. The same way this is going to be the end of his career.”