- Joe Budden has hit out at Frank Ocean over his controversial Coachella performance.
- "Y'all could have got DaBaby for a quarter of the price," he said.
Joe Budden has some choice words for Frank Ocean after his controversial Coachella performance earlier this month.
The "Pyramids" singer headlined the music festival on April 16, marking his first live show since 2017. However, after arriving on stage nearly an hour late than scheduled, his performance was cut short due to Coachella's midnight curfew.
The performance was heavily criticized due to Ocean being "largely invisible" to the crowd throughout and his failure to provide live vocals on a number of his biggest hits.
Ocean later dropped out of his second Coachella performance, citing a leg injury.
Discussing Ocean's set on the latest episode of "The Joe Budden Podcast," which aired on Tuesday, Budden labeled the singer arrogant.
"I'd smack the shit out of you," he said. "What the fuck are you talking about, you fucking idiot? Everybody is here for your stupid ass who ain't put out music in ages, and you can't even confirm if there's new music coming?"
Ocean, whose most recent studio album, "Blonde," was released in 2016, teased fans at Coachella with a new album, telling the crowd that one is coming but "not right now."
"Get the fuck out of here," added Budden. "Y'all could have got DaBaby for a quarter of the price."
Elsewhere on the podcast, Budden also called Ocean a "scammer" for the way he exited his record contract with Def Jam in 2016.
"I think most of the scams are genius," said the "Pump It Up" rapper. "He'll always wear the scammer tag for me. That fucked up a lot of artists, he didn't care. Lost a lot of artist revenue streams, took Apple out the game, he didn't care."
Budden accused Ocean of dropping his visual album "Endless" only to satisfy his contract with the label, before releasing his sophomore album "Blonde" independently the very next day.
"Apple exclusive deals where Apple comes and pays a shit-ton of money to come have the project exclusive to Apple for a week, two weeks, something like that," he explained. "Frank Ocean was in his Def Jam contract so he could not do that. He had one album left to deliver to Def Jam and they had a hard time negotiating around that."
"It's rumored that Apple gave Frank Ocean the money to give Def Jam to even everything out and handed them an album, and then he was out of that deal," he added. "But then the very next day, he put out the other album on Apple," he added.