Joe Budden Calls Out ‘Weirdo’ Keke Palmer For Joining Blueface’s Livestream Despite Stance Against Abuse: ‘She Praises A Lot Of Men With Abusive…’

On a recent episode of ‘The Joe Budden Podcast,’ Budden stirred the pot, asking his co-hosts if folks were ready for “The Keke Palmer Conversation?” While Marc Lamont Hill and others like Mona Love, Emanny, Parks Vallely, Ice, Ish, and Queenzflip questioned his meaning, Budden just laughed.

“Apparently, it’s not time for that Keke Palmer conversation just yet… I’m the wrong person to deliver what the Keke Palmer conversation is. I think that you’re being facetious because you’re very well aware of what [it is].”

Hill continued to press, claiming he truly didn’t know what “The Keke Palmer Conversation” was, even though it had apparently come up in a group chat with his co-hosts. Budden responded, getting more specific:

“Ask your group chat. I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you. They ain’t about to drag me because they love Keke Palmer. Keke Palmer—I’ll try to tell you. Keke Palmer, they say, is…

Well, are you familiar with the whole sh*t she went through with her and her baby daddy? She was being abused and then he put out a story that kind of painted a different picture. 

They kill her for her Trey Songz story, highlighting him as an abuser with that whole, ‘We were in Florida shooting a video and I had to hide in the closet because I was scared and he made me uncomfortable.’ 

But in the next breath, she will praise—she praises a lot of men with abusive… She spoke very highly of R. Kelly when she was on ‘The Breakfast Club,’ like very highly, extremely highly. She’s from Chicago. There’s a long list of sh*t on Keke Palmer.”

Hill finally conceded, “Yeah, of course. Contradictions. I see. I just didn’t know what…I get it.” Budden then doubled down:

“So now here we are. It’s a Blueface interview and people are up in arms saying… I mean, on brand for you again. Again, it’s you. But every time a Black person says, ‘Are y’all ready to have the Keke Palmer Conversation?,’ what happened in your group chat and what happens here every time I say it, It happens every time.”

Hill pondered if the hesitancy to discuss Palmer stemmed from watching her grow up, leading to an unwillingness to have uncomfortable conversations. Mona Love interjected, clarifying, “That is not ‘Akeelah & The Bee.’ That is Keke Palmer.”

After Hill admitted he first caught wind of the Palmer situation in their group chat, Budden acknowledged his own past, saying, “Listen, I’ve been saying it for… I’m the wrong person to do it because of my checkered past.” Mona Love chimed in:

“I’m going to look into it though because I give my opinion for real. I like Keke Palmer and I give my real opinion. I didn’t notice that and I believe that about Trey Songz. I believe that about her baby daddy. But I do think it’s bullsh*t to do that to somebody because… And in turn, that’s like somebody interviewing her baby father, how would Chrisean Rock feel about that? I like Blueface too.”

Joe Budden didn’t let up, slamming Keke Palmer further. “She’s a weirdo. She’s a weirdo. I don’t even have… Yeah. She’s just a weirdo,” he declared. Love concurred, “Yeah, it’s just weird.” Budden then offered a sort of philosophical disclaimer:

“And that’s okay. I’m a weirdo. Everybody has their own type of weird. You just got to find the weirds that you’re compatible with and the weirds that you’re not. She’s not. That’s not my type of weird. But go her.”

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