Well dang! Joe Budden didn’t hold back while talking about Frank Ocean and his recent performance at Coachella.
During a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, the hosts discussed Ocean’s career and how he allegedly has a history of “scamming.” Budden took it back to 2016 and claimed that’s when the Grammy-winning singer’s alleged scamming began. “Frank Ocean is a scammer,” Budden began. “He’s a scammer for the way he got out of his [Def Jam] Universal contract. I think most of the scams are genius. He’ll always wear the scammer tag for me. That f*cked up a lot of artists, he didn’t care. Lost a lot of artist revenue streams, took Apple out the game, he didn’t care.”
He continued: “But I’m not so mad at that. Apple exclusive deals where Apple comes and pays a shit-ton of money to come have the project exclusive to Apple for a week, two weeks, something like that. Frank Ocean was in his Def Jam contract so he could not do that. He had one album left to deliver to Def Jam and they had a hard time negotiating around that.
“It’s rumored that Apple gave Frank Ocean the money to give Def Jam to even everything out and handed them an album, and then he was out of that deal. But then the very next day, he put out the other album on Apple.”
While speaking on his latest performance Budden believes Coachella should’ve told the singer “suck my d*ck” and “get the f*ck out of here.” “Y’all could have got DaBaby for a quarter of the price,” Budden joked.
As we previously reported, Ocean’s performance was reportedly adjusted because of an ankle injury stemming from a bike accident. Sources close to the situation told TMZ that the accident occurred when Frank was at Coachella rehearsing his set and it was so serious that a doctor advised him to quickly switch up his set.
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Clips also surfaced the internet of Ocean telling his fans that night that he could possibly be coming out with a new album but he didn’t quite confirm it: “It’s been so long. Everybody talks about how long it’s been. ‘It’s been so long, it’s been so long.’ But I have missed you,” he said to the crowd.
“I want to talk about why I’m here, because it’s not because of a new album. It’s because — not that there’s not a new album… but there’s not right now. Chill, chill, chill. No, it’s not right now.” Ocean said.
Budden caught wind of Ocean telling his fans that and made it known he did not appreciate that at all!
“What the fuck are you talking about, you fucking idiot?! Everybody is here for your stupid ass who ain’t put out music in ages, and you can’t even confirm if there’s new music coming?! The arrogance of these n-ggas, yo.” He said.