![]() Eventually the two men appeared to reconcile. Budden, speaking in a video posted online, made some disparaging comments about Method Man, who was ranked above him, leading to a flurry of recriminations in radio interviews and YouTube videos. In May Vibe magazine presented a fan-voted online bracket to determine “The Best Rapper Ever,” the sort of content intended to stir debate. But the battle between them, and the larger one from which it stems, has revealed a clash not only of egos but also of generations and technologies. ![]() ![]() Budden with his group, Slaughterhouse, at the Canal Room and for the most part kept the tensions at arm’s length. Budden and Raekwon performed in New York Raekwon in a Staten Island park and Mr. The reason? He had just been attacked by Raekwon and his entourage, he said, the latest in a string of incidents in what had been until that point a war of words with various members of the Wu-Tang Clan. “My eye’s swollen,” he noted, and he complained about pain in his shoulder. Budden had posted a video online in which he held a compress to his right temple. For a rapper so given to transmitting even the mundane details of his life to fans, the omission was notable. It was curious, the sling encasing Joe Budden’s right arm on Wednesday night at the Canal Room curious and uncommented upon.
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