Joe Budden Blasts Yung Miami For Laughing At LL Cool J Gifting Him “Pump It Up” Gold Plaque

Yung Miami found some humor in the fact LL Cool J visited The Joe Budden Podcast to give the host a gold plaque for his 2003 hit “Pump It Up.” Joe Budden responded on the latest episode of his show and gave her an extended version of the popular “I know you aren’t laughing” reply that happens during roast sessions.

The controversial media personality opened his rant by taking accountability. “I’m the last to know that there are a few of you out there laughing at that gesture,” he began. “I wanna be clear. Everybody can laugh. If you sit up here and you dish it, you have to be able to take it. I stand in that. I have said a bunch of sh*t about a bunch of people. My actions are not exonerated at all here. I am clear on why people fire at me, and I’m willing to stand in it.”

He continued by saying nobody can make him feel bad for his song taking so long to go gold or LL commemorating that achievement for him. “To the people who know me a tad bit better, there’s absolutely nothing you can say to make me think that LL Cool J bringing me my ‘Pump It Up’ gold plaque to my quadruple platinum podcast is an ‘L,'” he asserted.

Joe Budden continued setting the scene by directly showing some love to Yung Miami, given all she has endured in 2024 by being romantically linked to Diddy throughout his lawsuits, accusations, and footage of him assaulting Cassie surfacing online. “Now we all can laugh, and if there’s anybody that I hope would be laughing it would be Yung Miami with all she’s had to endure in the past year or so,” he said. “I wanna be clear. I like Yung Miami. I do. I think she’s a pretty good content creator. What [I] do up here when things end as a ritual is to play ‘Another One Bites the Dust.’ It’s me. I’m a d**k. I think it’s funny. I just think it’s a cool little segment when sh*t goes awry.”

Budden gave Miami the “Another One Bites The Dust” treatment after her show Caresha Please seemingly ended after a successful run, which included winning BET Awards two years in a row. And after acknowledging that he did that, it was off the races with the negativity. “I want to keep this professional and on the music,” he said.

“If Complex were to do a list of where all the female [rappers] rank, Caresha, you would be last on the list. Every female out there is wiping you down right now. Caresha, not only may you be dropped from [your] label right now, but you are not allowed to put music out. I hear ‘Pump It Up’ more than I hear you,” he said. Watch the full rant above.

Joe Budden was made aware of why Yung Miami decided to laugh at him via one of her tweets last week. When she initially laughed at LL Cool J’s gift on X, he quoted her and wrote, “It would be too easy…..” The Florida rapper responded and wrote, “Another one bites the dust remember??? You was just celebrating when you THOUGHT I took an L. I can laugh YOU was just laughing at me so LETS LAUGH! *three laughing emojis*.”

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