Just as episode 112 of Everyday Struggle was coming to an end on Thursday, April 27, DJ Akadmiks sprung a question on Joe Budden that he was happy to answer in light of the numbers for albums sold last week coming in. "Now that we have, what is it, two, three days off... will you be responding to NuPac," he asked, which sent Joe into a giddy fit to report that NuPac hadn't registered enough sales to even make Soundscan. "I wanna congratulate NuPac on a whopping 830 records sold," he replied, before confirming that he will not be taking the time to respond to Troy Ave's "Press Spray" diss record.
Followers of Troy Ave on Instagram would later learn that the Brooklyn rapper indeed caught wind of Budden's snub, when he posted a rant defending his sales, which started off by him first bringing up domestic abuse allegations from the Jersey rapper/podcast hosts past. "Don't beat her up man, u shouldn't put ya hands on a women & we know u be on some emotional beat a b***h then take mad pills Tryna OD u f***n Junky!" he wrote, in the caption of a video he once shot, that featured Joe's girl Cyn Santana licking his face.
Judging by Troy's assertion that he put NuPac out for free anyway, and will gladly use the seven racks he earned off of it on "some patio furniture 4 my pool with the water fall," his response to Budden was more likely a petty little shot for Joe to enjoy his three-day weekend meditating over, than it was an attempt to bait him into a rap battle. Although, it could very well have been another attempt to bait him into a rap battle. But it looks like Joe won't be budging, ending Thursday's Complex show by channeling a rival who once refused to give him the time of day, when he concluded: "I'm like Drake now: I'm not responding to 800 copies sold."
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