Its crazy how Joe Budden parlayed 1 hit into being a top 10 richest rapper of all time

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He deserves it though, he was an early adopter of podcasts, I remember nikkas used to clown him for streaming on ustream back in the day then making his podcast, now everybody is doing it. Most wouldht have had the heart to keep going getting clowned like that.
Joe spearheaded streaming live in a way and utilized the internet in ways most rappers wouldn't. Way before podcasts. What he did wasn't a podcast. It was closer to Kai Cenat and Akademiks. It was a combination of that and his mood Muzik series opening up a lane for rappers to be real people not just larger than life characters. Joe has a cult audience that came for his relatable music about life. Not a large base but a solid one.

"Wouldn't have the hear to keep going getting clowned" and thats the issue. Rap culture is still so engrossed in being unreal. Joe was a real flawed human being in his music and his personal life. People clowned and also envied him. Make sense of that
 

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Joe is easily making 15-20 ms a year now


props to joe he did it HIS way and hes an originator of the space hes in
 

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So if Young MC would've won last weekend's Powerball lottery, you'd call him the richest rapper in history???

How tf is that logical 🤔😒

While we're at it, Forbes calling Jay Z the richest musician is dumb asf.

No ...that title still belongs to Michael Jackson
 

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Joe is easily making 15-20 ms a year now


props to joe he did it HIS way and hes an originator of the space hes in

Why are you pretending you came up with this number all by yourself 😒😂

Joe is literally helping y'all count his pockets
'Cause Fat Joe hurt his feelings

Rappers n their fragile egos..smh
 

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nikkas will clown and I personally don't fukk with the pod like that, I really am a fan of Joe the rapper and he wouldn't have what he has now without that component.

Now of course there are degrees to what/who is legendary, but I'd say he qualifies as someone noteworthy in Hip Hop history and it's all predicated on his pen.
 

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Right place, right time like a muthafukka. Happy for him. I know deep down he looks at these flexin ass rappers with digust
You can’t say he’s right place right time because Joey was WAY ahead of the curve when it came to all of this. He was the vlogging before other rappers, doing podcasts before other rappers, doing reality TV before other rappers, being independent with his work way before most other east coast rappers. He did all of these things when it was considered corny and got clowned for it because people just looked at him as a failed rapper. He put in even more than the work necessary to get the success, this isn’t some lucky shyt.
 
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Budden was before his time, he was walking around with a camera recording everything way back in the day, his wins and losses, Tahirys ass, and getting punched. He was called lame for that. Now that’s the quickest way to get rich
:wow:
 
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