Ari Lennox has some vitriol for Joe Budden after the podcaster mentioned her name while discussing J. Cole’s recent apology to Kendrick Lamar.
In a series of posts on Wednesday (April 10), the Dreamville singer shared footage of the 2013 fight where Consequence punched Budden while taking the podcast host to task for bringing her up.
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“Knocked your little glasses off and everything,” she wrote. “Keep my precious name out of your psychotic, animal abusing, woman terrorizing, demonic trolling, nicotine encased mouth. All this meth smoke for a woman but not for any man beating your ass in real life. Bald bitch!”
Her anger was prompted by a comment the Slaughterhouse MC made on the latest episode of his eponymous podcast, where he said: “Y’all think I be playing with the Ari Lennox, Scottie, they do all that earthy, college campus, grassroots shit. If you listen to [Cole’s] raps, he just been trying to be the best rapper, the best MC. But you gotta listen to a n-gga’s story. It’s been college life.”
Ari Lennox drags Joe Budden for bringing her up in conversation about J. Cole's apology pic.twitter.com/y9zzmmswOf
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) April 10, 2024
This is not the first time Ari Lennox has gone at Joe Budden.
The 43-year-old previously criticized her comments about touring with Rod Wave, where she was pelted with a bottle. While the”Pump It Up” hitmaker praised her for being a talented artist, he also took issue with her complaining about the arena trek and said that she should have been grateful for the opportunity.
Lennox did not take the kindly to the comments, clapping back by belittling the New Jersey rapper-turned-podcaster’s music career during a fiery Instagram Live broadcast.
“I don’t know what Joe Budden’s obsession is with me, but what I will say is that somebody needs to tell him to stop touching them dogs,” she began. “He’s weird and he’s gross. He has smoke mouth. He’s disgusting! And he’s a failure like Drake said.”
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The 32-year-old then threatened to spend $20,000 to sue her adversary while pointing out that he “loves to oppose everybody, especially women.”
Soon after, Budden offered a nominal apology as he took a moment to let the R&B star know that he regrets how he made her feel.
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“In a[n] industry that has historically not been great to women, now is not the time for any woman out there to feel like they are under attack, unheard or not seen,” he said. “And if I’ve ever added to that, then I want to do my best to change the trajectory.”
However, he then pivoted and said that Lennox had “attempted to demean and defame a Black man” — him — “while summoning the powers universally of Black women, while simultaneously bigging up a white man who fetishizes [presumably Budden’s former co-host Rory, who Lennox praised] — all on Martin Luther King Day.”
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He ended with an analogy about her character that made his initial mea culpa seem like a deadpan joke, especially since all his co-hosts were quite visibly amused by it all.
“This chick is a bag of fuckin’ mixed nuts — mixed nuts come from everywhere,” he said. “This bitch is all the nuts combined and I think she’s done a great job of proving the exact point that I was trying to make in the last broadcast, and we shower her with love.”
