HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty Joe Budden is beefing with conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Alex Jones. We’re guessing this wasn’t on your 2021 bingo card. Jones is probably most known as the guy who told anyone who would listen that the Sandy Hook mass shooting didn’t actually happen. Actually, it did, and he was sued for defamation due to his lies about the tragedy, and lost. That said, Jones got all in his feeling when Budden criticized comedian and podcaster Andrew Schultz for interviewing Jones, who the rapper referred to as “the KKK guy.” Apparently, that’s all he needed to go in a Budden on his InfoWars site. [embedded content] According to Jones, Budden is the real racist. “I will not sit there and have racist Black people who are feeding at the corpora...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty On Monday, May 17, DJ Olivia Dope accused Joe Budden of sexual harassment after leaving her gig at the Joe Budden Network a few months ago. The rapper turned podcaster has responded to her allegations, and has apoogized. According to Dope, Budden sexually harassed her when he was a guest on episode no. 16 of See, The Things Is, the female-led podcast that she was still a part of at the time. The detailed account she shared on Instagram included timestamps that corresponded to the aforementioned episode of the podcast where she provided a play by play of Budden speaking to her inappropriately and making her uncomfortable while she attemptoed to to laugh it off. Budden issued a statement to Rolling Stone on Tuesday, May 18, and said,...