Lil Yachty Tell Joe Budden He Can Write a Better Verse Than Him

On the latest episode of Lil Yachty and MitchGoneMad's A Safe Place Podcast, Yachty told Joe Budden that he believes he could write a better verse than him if they made a song together.

"Joe, you still rap, you still get in there? You still practice?" Yachty asked Budden around the 46-minute mark of the podcast, as seen above.

"Not at all," he replied, to which Yachty asked, "You think you still got it?" Budden said that rapping is "like riding a bike" for him, so he'll "always have it."

Yachty disagreed and asked his guest straight-up if he thought he could write a better verse than him if they hopped in the studio today.

"Well, who's picking the beat?" Budden asked. "Obviously not you," Yachty replied, which got a laugh from Budden. "The fuck? If he picked that beat it's going to sound [like] NBA Street Vol. 2."

Budden suggested that if Yachty got to pick the beat, "It's going to sound like when the Nintendo game is fucked up... and now you gotta find some whole new pocket that the 20-35 crowd is into it, and then I gotta sing some shit."

Yachty insisted that he's happy to rap over "anything," but Budden said Yachty will have "the better verse" if he chooses "one of them Metroid beats."

However, he thinks he'd have it in the bag if it was a beat from The Alchemist. "I'm not even dignifying this," he laughed. Yachty said he was "serious" about getting in the studio with Budden if he was up for it, and he said he'd "do it for fun because I'm retired" and would make for "fun content."

Budden has been retired from hip-hop for almost a decade and has since pivoted to podcasts and media commentary. His final studio album, Rage & The Machine, dropped in October 2016. However, fans of Budden as a rapper often point to his Mood Muzik mixtape series as an example of his rap skills.

After some back-and-forth about the podcast recording session being early, during which Yachty admitted that he hadn't slept, Budden insisted that he would have the better verse if they both rapped over an Alchemist beat. "No, I would still kill you," Yachty said. "Who's recording in the morning?" Budden replied, "Me, psychopath virgos."

Watch the full episode of the podcast above.