{"id":243216,"date":"2025-09-21T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243216\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:53:09","slug":"cardi-b-proves-she-wrote-lyrics-to-jt-after-joe-buddens-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243216\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Proves She Wrote Lyrics To JT After Joe Budden\u2019s Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cardi B<\/a> isn\u2019t letting questions about her pen game slide. The Bronx superstar pushed back after Joe Budden<\/a> raised eyebrows on a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, where he praised her sharp wordplay on \u201cMagnet\u201d but suggested she might not have written it herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever is writing these lines, he is smoking that sh\u2013,\u201d Budden remarked, delivering what many interpreted as a compliment laced with doubt.<\/p>\n

That comment was enough to trigger a fiery response from Cardi, who took to X on September 20 with receipts. Posting a July 2024 clip of her phone playing a voice note, she doubled down on her authorship of the Am I The Drama? track, which includes pointed shots at City Girls\u2019 rapper JT.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhoever wrote it?? Nah that\u2019s CARDI,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis is my process\u2026 I\u2019m a natural roaster and you already know I\u2019m quick with the mouth so I\u2019ll be coming up with lines and I\u2019ll record myself then lay it later. Don\u2019t give me backhanded 10\u2019s cuz I\u2019ll always be able to prove my shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardi\u2019s defense outlined her creative method: jotting lines as they come, capturing them in voice notes, and refining them into full verses. She emphasized that her sharp tongue and battle-ready wit drive her writing, rejecting the suggestion that ghostwriters crafted the barbs on \u201cMagnet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cardi B Takes Full Credit For \u201cMagnet\u201d Lyrics<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post wasn\u2019t just a rebuttal to Budden\u2019s commentary but a broader declaration of independence. Cardi made it clear that her lyrical firepower is her own.<\/p>\n

In hip-hop, few accusations sting more than claims of not writing one\u2019s own raps. For Cardi, whose career has often been dogged by speculation about collaborators and co-writers, the timing matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Am I The Drama? has fueled headlines for its blunt disses and raw delivery, and \u201cMagnet\u201d adds to her catalog of confrontational anthems. By posting her behind-the-scenes process, she\u2019s seeking to undercut critics before they can dent her credibility.<\/p>\n

The exchange highlights a familiar tension between artists and commentators in rap: authenticity as currency. Budden may have been tipping his hat, but Cardi heard a backhanded compliment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her response was swift, confident, and, most importantly, documented\u2014proof that when challenged, she\u2019s ready to back up every bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B isn\u2019t letting questions about her pen game slide. The Bronx superstar pushed back after Joe Budden…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[83957,11259,171,61697,30116,22633,975,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-243216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-am-i-the-drama","9":"tag-cardi-b","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-joe-budden","12":"tag-jt","13":"tag-magnet","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}