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It's safe to say Joe Budden isn't a fan of Cardi B's new song "Imaginary Playerz."
During the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, JB sounded off about Bardi's newest single, which samples JAY-Z's 1997 track of the same name. Budden doesn't knock the lyrical material in the song and even shouts out the writers (which includes Cardi herself). However, he doesn't like that the Bronx native flipped Hov's classic track and made it her own.
"She shouldn't do that again," Budden said. "Don't take any East Coast top three, four rapper beat, classic song, and redo that."
"We gonna shout out the writers. The writers killed. This is not about the writers," he continued. "The bars are there. That wasn't enough."
Joe Budden may be cool with the bars Cardi served up, but overall, he's not a fan of the way she executed the record. He felt as if her lyrics didn't match the sample, and even suggested a fan edit of her bars over Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s "Get Money" fit a lot better.
"That delivery, those punch-ins, how choppy that was... 'Imaginary Players,' for y'all that wasn't there, Hov, when that dropped, was a much better rapper than that," he explained. "It was just fly because of the cadence and the flow and what he was saying, his aura and voice control. Cardi is in the same pitch, same tone, sounding choppy, not smooth. Bars are there, but this is not the beat for that."
Watch the entire episode of The Joe Budden Podcast below.