50 Cent didn’t hesitate to fire back after Joe Budden suggested he “needs therapy” on his podcast.
The BMF boss jumped on his favorite platform, Instagram, to blast Budden, labeling him a “punk” and bringing up Budden’s recent lewdness story from his own podcast.
“Stay out my mix, Joe, talking about I need therapy,” 50 shot back on Instagram Tuesday. “Bitch, you need to stop walking around naked. The fuck is you doing in the hallway with ya balls out PUNK!”

In another post that’s now gone, 50 doubled down: “They just told Joe what I said. Yeah, I mean what I said PUNK!”

In the podcast clip that got 50 fired up, Budden roped in Ye while making his therapy case.
“Hip-hop is the new meaning for ‘I need therapy,'” Budden said in the clip above. “Kanye West needs therapy. 50 Cent needs therapy. I don’t care if you agree with the rationale. And 50 is 50. He gon’ stand in it. He gon’ stand strong in it.”
Budden also called out how 50 handled the Irv Gotti death news, saying that kind of reaction should stay behind closed doors.
“If 50 feels like that, then go smoke a cigar in the cigar room,” he added. “I’m not telling him how to feel. Yeah, feel like that!”
But Budden drew the line at clowning Gotti after death, calling it “wrong.”