Drake Says Joe Budden Is In Hip-Hop Media’s “Big 3” Alongside Adam22 And DJ Akademiks

Drake has a pulse on Hip-Hop and the influential moving pieces that help document it. Drizzy — who has been dubbed part of the culture’s “Big 3” along with Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole — has now implied who he thinks are the top three figures in Hip-Hip media causing major conversations. Although the 6 God isn’t participating in much press nowadays, he recently gave No Jumper‘s Adam22 some insight on who he thinks is moving the needle in the media space. He gave props to Joe Budden over DJ Vlad, and sort of agreed on the inclusion of Adam22 and DJ Akademiks. In a recent episode of the viral podcast, Adam shared a DM from the Canadian icon where he asked him about trending topic — being that K. Dot recently downsized his trio to just “big me” on the diss track “Like That.” “I sent a message to Drake and I was hoping that his response would undermine sleepy Joe Budden,” Adam said, referring to Budden initially claiming to be in the “Big 3” of media before deleting his post on the matter. He then shared that Drake sent eight crying-laughing emojis before saying, “Nah you got to...