Episode 970 | "We Are The World"
The Joe Budden Podcast
October 7, 2026
The JBP kicks things off with album reviews for Victoria Monét (27:40) and Quavo (49:32) before revisiting Jasmine Guy and the 'A Different World' reboot (1:27:05).
Speakers Joe Budden, Parks, Ice, Freeze, Ish, Flip, Imani, Marc Lamont Hill, Production/Backend, Monét, Treasure Wilson
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Joe Budden (0:00)
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Parks (0:32)
Welcome back. Freeze and Joe.
Ice (0:34)
Yo, yo, yo.
Joe Budden (0:35)
Yo, we back, yo.
Ice (0:37)
That's right. Gang is in the building.
Joe Budden (0:38)
We back, yo. Squad is here.
Parks (0:41)
Thank God.
Joe Budden (0:42)
The last episode, shout to the gang for holding it down. Not a gang in case them Rico people was listening. Also, here they are. I mean like, yeah. I mean like a pod gang.
Freeze (0:53)
Crew. Crew.
Joe Budden (0:54)
Crew sounds so old school.
Parks (0:57)
I want to thank you specifically for giving us a really big head start and notice that half the pod was not going to be here.
Joe Budden (1:05)
I tried, man.
Freeze (1:07)
No, you didn't.
Joe Budden (1:09)
I tried.
Parks (1:10)
We started at 11.3 in the morning, typically recording. At 11.35, Joe comes down and says, me and Freeze are not going to be here.
Joe Budden (1:16)
Yeah. Sometimes you want to see what that $2 million almost payroll looks like.
Parks (1:22)
Fair enough.
Freeze (1:23)
I think we held it down. They should have it.
Parks (1:25)
I think we held it down.
Joe Budden (1:28)
Around the 29th every month, I think, you know what? They got it. Yeah, they got it. Anyway, me and Freeze are back. We back, baby. We back. You know what I mean? We up in this piece.
I was just sharing with my brothers how we're aging and my vision and my memory is fading because this morning I had to ask which toothbrush was mine in the thing of Majig.
Freeze (1:52)
No, for real. Don't y'all have Mrs. Hurst sinks?
Joe Budden (1:56)
Yeah, but we don't. What's mine is going to be the sinks she uses.
Freeze (2:00)
We like the same color toothbrush.
Joe Budden (2:01)
We like the same sinks. She went and bought new toothbrushes.
Freeze (2:04)
I can see how that would be.
Joe Budden (2:05)
Put them all in there and Lex got dine of them. He just do what he want.
Freeze (2:10)
Just put your initial on one.
Ice (2:11)
No, they color code the toothbrushes.
Joe Budden (2:13)
Yeah, I put a toothbrush in my mouth. The shit start, my shit ain't doing.
Freeze (2:18)
My shit ain't doing this. You don't have a vibrating toothbrush?
Ish (2:20)
Yo, time out with the toothbrushes.
Joe Budden (2:22)
You can't come late and make a Joe Budden suck dick joke. Oh shit.
Just to be clear, you can't come late and make a Joe Budden you be sucking dick joke. That's what you're doing.
Ish (2:31)
That traffic, I had to go all the way.
Flip (2:33)
Yo, bro, this shit was insane.
Freeze (2:34)
I told you.
Ice (2:36)
I told them, I said the car was on fire.
Ish (2:37)
Yeah, this shit was crazy.
Ice (2:39)
I had to go all the way around, tonnily, dog bullshit, but lost it.
Parks (2:42)
For real? Sorry, you went through that.
Ish (2:43)
Yo, when you buy the new toothbrushes, they give you the color code thing.
Parks (2:48)
They do.
Joe Budden (2:49)
What's the color code thing?
Parks (2:50)
The little ring around the...
Ice (2:51)
If you get the fancy, like the best toothbrushes, the oral, anyway.
Joe Budden (2:55)
I don't.
Ice (2:55)
They got the, like they got blue, red, you could put the little ring on it, so that's yours. It's blue.
Parks (3:01)
I have different color handles for my wife and me.
Imani (3:03)
Yo, just un-issue your shit.
Freeze (3:05)
Yeah, that's what we got different colors.
Marc Lamont Hill (3:06)
What you look like writing with a Sharpie or a toothbrush?
Parks (3:08)
That's better than ghetto shit.
Ice (3:10)
You get the black Sonicare and let her get the white Sonicare.
Freeze (3:13)
Yeah, exactly.
Joe Budden (3:14)
All this sounds like memorizing the mumps by your knuckles.
Parks (3:19)
I mean.
Joe Budden (3:19)
That's what it sounds like. Effective.
Parks (3:21)
Or just use some.
Joe Budden (3:22)
Alright, so listen, my good brother Ish just walked in. A tad bit late, no text or phone call, but he's a reliable friend, so I knew he would be here.
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