*Joe Budden has slammed Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new single “Bongos,” calling it “commercialized ratchet.”
“This record don’t seem like it has lasting power,” Budden said on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, Complex reports.
“It’s that hard-ass beat, the hook is not hooking for me, there’s nothing in it to make it stay, one, and two, I know y’all think Sexyy Red is paying me she’s not, but this commercialized ratchet has passed,” he continued.
The video for the NSFW track dropped last week, watch it via the YouTube clip above.
Puccy tight like a nun ….BONGOS .. https://t.co/2ugjbY35NG pic.twitter.com/tGnf4mxJmo
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 8, 2023
“It’s ghetto ratchet time. Neither one of them are ghetto ratchet on this song. I think they both have potential to be, and Cardi normally smokes ghetto ratchet, but she’s too big,” Budden added.
Budden believes Cardi is too big of an artist to do “ghetto ratchet” music on her own and that the Bronx native needs to collaborate with other rappers (or writers) to make that possible.
All Hip Hop writes, ” “Bongos” debuted at #70 on the Global Spotify charts and had a Top 50 Billboard projection after just 24 hours.”
Meanwhile, Budden thinks the new single is a “2-pack of ass” — meaning, it stinks.
Megan’s ex Pardison Fontaine is listed as a songwriter on “Bongos,” to which Budden said, “So that means y’all coming with the old sauce cause we know Pardison Fontaine well, we assumed he is not writing for either one of them today. We don’t know, but this sound like…I don’ t see it, I don’t see it.”
BONG 🪘 BONG 🪘BONG pic.twitter.com/JTZ2TDWIUH
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 9, 2023
In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, Cardi B said her team initially wanted a Latin artist featured on the song.
“My team wanted to go like more like Latin artists, and I was like, ‘I hear Megan, yeah I hear Megan,” Cardi said. “They’re like, ‘Really? You don’t see it? Like you don’t see this like more Latin?” But I’m like, ‘Right, No I see Megan,’ and then, like exactly what I was like hearing in my head, I sent her the song.”
Watch Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Bongos” video above.
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