The Official Joe Budden Podcast Thread

[Nuuko]

Fair enough. I bring up Macklemore as an example of how being critically acclaimed shouldn’t necessarily be used as a major impact metric. Kendrick’s year still wasn’t as impactful as Biggie in ‘95, DMX in 98 or 50 in ‘03 as far as amassing massive numbers of new fans.

Lol, his year was objectively bigger than these.

 

[krulesweatshirt]

Fair enough. I bring up Macklemore as an example of how being critically acclaimed shouldn’t necessarily be used as a major impact metric. Kendrick’s year still wasn’t as impactful as Biggie in ‘95, DMX in 98 or 50 in ‘03 as far as amassing massive numbers of new fans.

You don't know what you're talking about... we have never witnessed another rapper having that kind of year, only one I can think of is Eminem in 2003.

Kendrick also literally had more hits in 2024 alone than most rappers in their entire career.

 

[derro13]

Kendrick is literally the most critically acclaimed rapper ever, and combine this with a huge commercial success, that's unheard of.

in 2024 alone, NLU is the first diss track to go #1, and even when you put that aside, he literally had the entire top 5 of the billboard hot 100 on lock few months ago. That's a feat only The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Drake have done.

Within the same year he had:

-A critically acclaimed album
-The first rap song to win 5 grammy awards since lauryn Hill.
-The second rapper to ever win Song Of the Year and Record Of the Year
-3 number 1 hits (could have had 5)
-Super Bowl slot
-First diss track to go #1
-entire top 5 of the billboard hot 100 on lock
-won a big rap battle
-has many publications ranking his diss track the best diss record ever
-first rapper to headline a stadium tour
... (the list goes on)



And broke many streaming records.

This is the most impressive year for a rapper. No other rapper has been able to reach that level of acclaim combined to that level of commercial success.

This. Kendrick checked every box last year. Thats up there with Pac's 96.

 

[lib123]

Lol, his year was objectively bigger than these.

No it wasn’t. Kendrick’s fan base didn’t increase as big as those artists did. Vast majority of people celebrating Kendrick last year already knew about him and were already fans. Biggie, DMX and 50 ended those years with exponentially more fans than they started the year with.

 

[lib123]

You don't know what you're talking about... we have never witnessed another rapper having that kind of year, only one I can think of is Eminem in 2003.

Kendrick also literally had more hits in 2024 alone than most rappers in their entire career.

Uh you don’t know what you’re talking about if you’re saying Eminem’s big year was 2003 lol. ‘03 was 50’s big year.

 

[derro13]

No it wasn’t. Kendrick’s fan base didn’t increase as big as those artists did. Vast majority of people celebrating Kendrick last year already knew about him and were already fans. Biggie, DMX and 50 ended those years with exponentially more fans than they started the year with.

You're dumb lol.

 

[Ike omad]

Uh you don’t know what you’re talking about if you’re saying Eminem’s big year was 2003 lol. ‘03 was 50’s big year.

I can tell you're from the east coast. Eminem was far bigger than 50 that year. "03 50" is only something east coast nikkas talk about...ofc 50 was hot in the east, he's from that region...but everywhere else Eminem was literally running this shyt.

 

[derro13]

Uh you don’t know what you’re talking about if you’re saying Eminem’s big year was 2003 lol. ‘03 was 50’s big year.

DAMN by Kendrick has been ranked #2 biggest rap album of the 21st century in terms of chart performances (hits, sales, impact, etc)...kendrick in 2017 already had a bigger album than 50 in 2003 in the united states

 

[JealousOnesEn_V]

I can tell you're from the east coast. Eminem was far bigger than 50 that year. "03 50" is only something east coast nikkas talk about...ofc 50 was hot in the east, he's from that region...but everywhere else Eminem was literally running this shyt.

Eminem was not bigger than 50 from 03-05 lmao

 

[REdefinition]

The eventual Kendrick backlash is going to be something to see.

 

[dfresh]

I can tell you're from the east coast. Eminem was far bigger than 50 that year. "03 50" is only something east coast nikkas talk about...ofc 50 was hot in the east, he's from that region...but everywhere else Eminem was literally running this shyt.

 

[Osmosis]

Fair enough. I bring up Macklemore as an example of how being critically acclaimed shouldn’t necessarily be used as a major impact metric. Kendrick’s year still wasn’t as impactful as Biggie in ‘95, DMX in 98 or 50 in ‘03 as far as amassing massive numbers of new fans.

you're arguing with literal bots breh

 

[lib123]

You're dumb lol.

No I’m not. Everything I said was factual.

 

[lib123]

I can tell you're from the east coast. Eminem was far bigger than 50 that year. "03 50" is only something east coast nikkas talk about...ofc 50 was hot in the east, he's from that region...but everywhere else Eminem was literally running this shyt.

Uh no. I have family that lives around the world and 50 was massive globally, especially in Europe in ‘03. G Unit was the first hip hop act to do large scale tours in Europe.

 

[lib123]

DAMN by Kendrick has been ranked #2 biggest rap album of the 21st century in terms of chart performances (hits, sales, impact, etc)...kendrick in 2017 already had a bigger album than 50 in 2003 in the united states

Uh no. Have you seen how many albums Get Rich or Die Trying sold in ‘03?