Joe Budden went off on a rant against Frank Ocean after the singer pulled out of Coachella following a lack luster performance.
“Frank Ocean is a scammer. He’s a scammer for the way he got out of his [Def Jam] Universal contract. I think most of the scams are genius. He’ll always wear the scammer tag for me. That f-cked 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 said on his podcast.
He continued: “But I’m not so mad at that. Apple exclusive deals where Apple comes and pays a sh-t-ton of money to come have the project exclusive to Apple for a week, two weeks, something like that. 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.”
Budden was also frustrated that Frank Ocean could not say for certain when he would be dropping a new album.
