Fat Joe stands on business, Joe Budden! The rap icon responded to the podcaster who claimed he didn’t believe Joe after recently giving a different but old story on how he got his nickname “Joey Crack.”

Fat Joe took to X (formerly Twitter) on Nov. 27, giving a different story (unfamiliar to some) on how he received his name, Joey Crack. 

“They call me Joey crack ’cause the crack of my ass show whenever I stand up, girls in my hood gave me the name. It was never because the drug crack God is great, Joey wrote on X. 

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Many didn’t believe him because of his Wendy Williams interview on her show, where he claimed he smoked crack when he was younger.

One of the disbelievers is Budden. He recently addressed Joe’s X post on (I) The Joe Budden Podcast. 

” First of all, Fat Joe is lying,” Budden said. “That is a lie!”

One of the co-hosts mentioned how Joe was in a stage where he didn’t want to glorify drug dealing, which Budden understood but maintained Joe was lying.

“So, he’s making up a lie to clean it, but…don’t do that. Nobody even said nothing.”

The 43-year-old stated how he never heard the “Lean Back” hitmaker talk about “mooning b***he’s” in his song or anything about crack. 

“The truth is Fat Joe is getting more money than he’s ever gotten in his entire life,” Budden said. “He’s a media darling. He is an award show host. He is daytime television. He’s not just hip hop.”

In response to Budden, Joe went under the Neighborhood Talk’s post and wrote, “I stand on what I said.”

This wasn’t the first time the 53-year-old “What’s Luv” rapper claimed

his nickname came from him “mooning” people. In his 2009 track “Music,” featuring Cherlise, Joe made the same claim in the first verse.

“My pants would sag, now they callin’ me Crack.”