Yung Miami may have a hit on her hands with her new track, “Spend Dat,” but Joe Budden says that he thinks that her former flame, Sean “Diddy” Combs, is the real mastermind behind the track.
On a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, Budden said he had misjudged the record before seeing how it was landing in clubs and with fans.
“That [expletive] going crazy in the streets, boy,” Budden said. “I ain’t going to lie to you.”
Budden, who has been critical of Yung Miami in the past, made it clear that his praise was not part of any promotional push.
“Yo, this is not an ad,” he told his fellow cohosts, who were divided over the song. “Y’all know me and Karisha don’t even always see.”
After hearing the song in social settings, Budden said he better understood why the track was working and praised the record’s energy.
“Hot is hot,” he said while talking about DJs playing records that work in the room.
Then Budden shifted into detective mode and said the song sounded, to him, like something Diddy wrote for Yung Miami, whose real name is Caresha Brownlee.
“Boy, I can tell when Puff Daddy is ghostwriting from prison,” Budden said. He doubled down, saying the record’s structure and subject matter sounded unmistakably like Diddy’s work. “The whole flow, cadence, the topic, all of this,” Budden continued. “It’s got Puff name written all over.”
Budden even described the track as “a Puff love letter” and said listeners might not catch the details the way he does. “Because I’m a musician, I’mma tell y’all exactly how I know that Puff wrote this record,” he said before giving his explanation, before shouting out Yung Miami for the viral track.