Lil Yachty challenges Joe Budden to a rap battle over an Alchemist beat
nme.comLil Yachty and Joe Budden have questioned who would have a better verse if they rapped over an Alchemist instrumental.In the most recent episode of his A Safe Place podcast, Yachty interviewed his foe-turned-friend Joe Budden.
During their chat, the Atlanta rapper asked the New Yorker, “Do you think, right now – if me and you went in a [studio] – you would pen a better verse than me?”Budden immediately asked, “Who’s picking the beat?” – to which Yachty quipped, “Obviously, not you!” He added that the ‘Pump It Up’ rapper would choose something that could soundtrack the 2003 basketball video game, NBA Streets Vol.
2.The media personality rebutted, stating that – if Yachty picked the backing track – it would “sound like when the Nintendo game fucked up and now you gotta find some whole new pocket that the 20-35 [year-old] crowd is gonna be in to.”A post shared by THE HIP-HOP WOLF® (@thehiphopwolf)Budden said Yachty would only have the best verse if they used one of “those Metroid beats” – referring to Metro Boomin‘s synth-heavy production.The Concrete Boys founder then said confidently that he “can work on anything” and is willing to “dust off” one of his beats from the hip-hop legend, producer The Alchemist.The podcast’s co-host MitchGoneMad asked Budden if Yachty would be “done” if they both rapped over an Alchemist beat, to which Budden replied: “I won’t even dignify [that].”After the back-and-forth, Budden ultimately agreed to go bar for bar with Yachty: “I’d do it for fun because I’m retired.
If I was not retired, the sheer thought of this would be an insult to me.”“On an Alchemist beat, yeah [I’d beat Yachty]. I wouldn’t even allow it,” he concluded.You can watch the full episode of the A Safe Place podcast below.The.
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