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Joe Budden Apologizes to Latto for Making It Seem Like She Doesn’t Write Her Own Raps: ‘I Wasn’t Tryna Play With Your Pen Like That’
The rapper-turned-podcaster suggested that her flow on her song "Hostage" reminded him of Drake's flow on "Shabang."
What happened
According to Billboard’s source item, Joe Budden Apologizes to Latto for Making It Seem Like She Doesn’t Write Her Own Raps: ‘I Wasn’t Tryna Play With Your Pen Like That’, The rapper-turned-podcaster suggested that her flow on her song “Hostage” reminded him of Drake’s flow on “Shabang.”
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Primary source: Joe Budden Apologizes to Latto for Making It Seem Like She Doesn’t Write Her Own Raps: ‘I Wasn’t Tryna Play With Your Pen Like That’ via Billboard. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.
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- Joe Budden Apologizes to Latto for Making It Seem Like She Doesn’t Write Her Own Raps: ‘I Wasn’t Tryna Play With Your Pen Like That’Billboard - 2026-06-05T22:21:49+00:00
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