It would have been convenient to assume that signals got crossed when on Friday night [July 1] a tweet in Joe Budden's name was published to insist that French Montana butt out of his three way beef with rivals Drake and Meek Mill. But soon after the message got out, Joey took to Instagram to reassure fans that he's good with the Bronx rapper, explaining that the gaffe was the working of a hacker.

"French & Gab are extended fam to me, my message won't be misappropriated by hack bullshit. Encourage our own, not divide," wrote Joe, beneath a photo of he and French sharing an embrace on opposite sides of Wiz Khalifa.

Joe has had a battle brewing since May when Drake released a snippet of him recording his "No Shopping" collaboration with French Montana of all people. Joe would preview the clip on his podcast, sensing that there may have been some bars thrown at him in retribution for calling Drake uninspired on "Views." The Slaughterhouse emcee would then attempt to instigate a feud between Drake and Puffy, insinuating that Drizzy was taking shots at Puff on "4PM in Calabasas." He was adamant that Drake was directing bars at him as well.

Last week Joe previewed a diss song called "I Ain't Drake," but then tables turned when he brought Meek's name up in a tweet that reminded the Philly rapper that he is still in his cross-hairs over a spat they had last summer. Within 48 hours Meek would text out a couple of bars that began with him saying, "Petty n***as wanna mention my name to get acknowledged," but he'd deny it was a shot at Budden. After that the cat was out of the bag, with Joe laughing off the gesture then premiering his fierce "Making A Murderer (Part 1)," track in which he goes all in on both Meek and Drake.

While for the past two months Joey's followers stood tuned for matters to boil over, waters were perfectly still on the other side of the pond, until [in an unrelated quarrel] Jim Jones basically challenged French to a fight on the Breakfast Club. This prompted French's tweet responding “WISH I WOULD FALL FOR THAT WASHED UP MOVE.” From Joe's word to the presses, we now know that the alleged reaction that seemed to have confused French's message to be intended for Joe, was a hack. But in the in-between time it popped quite a number of eyes, reading: "French, I'm talking to the ppl who can rap... Mind your f***ing business."

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