Written By D.L. ChandlerPosted 3 hours ago HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty The Joe Budden Podcast helped usher in a new era in podcasting, and its deserved notoriety resulted in an exclusive deal with Spotify that effectively changed the landscape. The original format appears to be no more as host Joe Budden fired one of his co-hosts live on air, leading to Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay to address the split in brutally honest, but perhaps necessary fashion. In a special paywall video shared to Vimeo, Rory, and Mal, appearing to be sitting inside the studio hub of their former (?) colleague in Parks Vallely, who has been somewhat caught in the middle of this public split. This past Wednesday (May 12), Budden initially posted episode 437 of the podcast, only to remove and place it behind his Patreon paywall. The podcast episode was “bootlegged” for lack of a better term and circulated widely on social media, becoming something of a celebratory moment for Akademiks, who held a mock funeral for Rory and Mal, rivals of his, during a live Twitch stream. In Rory and Mal’s response, cleverly titled “I’ll Name This Response Later, which…
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