Joe Budden Offers Controversial Take On Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That … – HipHopDX
Joe Budden has had several controversial opinions throughout his podcast career — and he’s keeping up with that tradition with his take on Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town.”
In an episode of The Joe Budden Podcast which dropped on Saturday (August 5), the former Slaughterhouse MC mused on the racial undertones of the song and its accompanying video, and felt it was much ado about nothing.
“I don’t see a bunch of Black people burnin’ up flags — that’s some white people shit,” he said. “Do I think that dude could be on bullshit? Yes. I do. Let me be clear. I do think that.”
He continued: “The emotional outrage? I’m over it. If he’s not saying n-gger, or killing some Black people in the video, then them n-ggas can do what the fuck they want to in their small town. Because they’re going to always frame it as, ‘I’m speaking from the perspective of the small town over here.’”
Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town,” which went to No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, received a gaggle of backlash due to its incendiary lyrics (“Cuss out a cop, spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up / Yeah, ya think you’re tough / Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road”) and accompanying video (filmed at a former lynching site), which many people viewed as racist, according to KBTX.
“The courthouse was also the site of the infamous Columbia Race Riot in 1946 that left two Black men dead, more than 100 arrested, and 25 tried by jury on charges of shooting at white police officers,” reported the outlet.
Though several country music stations temporarily pulled the song from their lineups, Aldean came back to defend it.
“In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,” he wrote on Twitter. “These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far.”
Interestingly, however, Jason Aldean wasn’t always a controversial figure in Hip Hop.
Back in 2011, Ludacris performed with Jason Aldean at the CMT Music Awards for a collaboration.
The two performed a revamped rendition of his hit “Dirt Road Anthem,” touting a verse from Luda reconfigured from the second verse of the original tune.
The CMT Music Awards are a fan-voted awards show celebrating country music videos.
Kid Rock — another figure that has gone full MAGA in recent years — hosted that year’s event, which also featured performances from Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Lady Antebellum and more.
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