Man, they go and tell me like
you never know who your true friends until you ah umm
both got a little bit of money
I mean cause y’all both broke
then there’s no strain on the relationship, y’all both broke
And if you got money and he ain’t got no paper
He still needs you so you’ll never know how he really feel about you
When y’all both get some paper, you’ll see
Beanie Sigel going at Jay-Z, huh,” Budden said during a live blog chat. “Is that what it’s come to in hip-hop? Hip-Hop is f*cking wack. Why he ain’t never go at him before, that’s what I wanna know. That sh*t is weak. N*ggas dissing Jay-Z is weak. Aight, I don’t wanna hear that sh*t. Beans is nice and I like Beans, I just feel like n*ggas dissing Hov is pointless and mind you, I’m very aware that I dissed Hov countless times, I dissed Hov a bunch of times. I am so so aware of that. I did not diss Hov recently…I’ve matured, Jay is d*mn near a billionaire and he just performed at Yankee Stadium, diss him for what? Even if you rap better than Jay-Z, which some people do today, you’re gonna lose. If you go against Jay-Z, the fight is automatically fixed and I really like Jay-Z and I really like The Blueprint 3 for the most part, killed the intro, he’s got a bunch of songs on there I really like…You take Jay-Z away from hip-hop, what do you have? Is it the same? No.” (World Star Hip Hop)
— Joe Budden on Beanie Siegel dissing Jay-Z