Joe Budden isn’t buying into all of the hype surrounding Jason Aldean’s anthem, “Try That In A Small Town,” that sparked outrage all over the internet.
Aldeans’s critics have attacked the song’s lyrics, accusing it of being a racist song and promoting a “pro-lynching” message. Aldean’s video shows him and his band in front of a dazzlingly lit white courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. The location was the site of race riots back in 1946 and a 1927 lynching.
“I don’t see a bunch of Black people burnin’ up flags. That’s some white people sh-t. Do I think that dude could be on bullsh-t? Yes. I do. Let me be clear. I do think that,” Budden said on his podcast.
He continued: “The emotional outrage? I’m over it. If he’s not saying n-gger, or killing some Black people in the video, then them n-ggas can do what the fuck they want to in their small town. Because they’re going to always frame it as, ‘I’m speaking from the perspective of the small town over here.'”
