So as you guys may or may not know, Joe Budden has left the show that he made; Everyday Struggle.
If you're not familiar with the show, its a show on the Complex channel where Joe Budden,
DJ Akademiks and Nadeska Alexis debate over trending topics in hip hop.
It was a hugely entertaining show, but with Joe leaving due to him and Complex not reaching
an agreement, the show just won't be the same.
I was quite upset at this as I only started watching the show recently, and now I don't
know if I will again.
So I'm gonna be presenting a couple of reasons why the show won't be the same without Budden,
and why it quite frankly will not be as good anymore.
(The Core of the Show)
And the main reason as I'm sure you all know, is that Joe Budden is essentially the highlight
of the show week to week.
Now I wanna make it clear, I intend no disrespect to Akademiks or Nadeska because they are pretty
entertaining and funny in their own right, not to mention Akademiks definitely has an
extensive knowledge of hip hop, but Joe was a human highlight reel.
Think about all the best moments that came out of the show, such as him berating Lil
Yachty.
(Clip of Lil Yachty's Everyday Struggle Interview).
Nadeska and Akademiks aren't the kinda people to get loud and shout at a kid, but Joe Budden
is fine with presenting his points in a loud and in your face way, as long as he really
believes in the points he's making, and it's absolutely golden.
I don't think there are many people in hip hop right now that are more fun to watch than
Joe Budden.
And that also brings up the fact that the 3 members of the show had a lot of chemistry
and they worked perfectly together.
Nadeska tries to keep the show focused and keep the other two on topic (which admittedly
can be quite hard with Joe sometimes), and Joe and Akademiks usually have a conflict
of opinions which results in a great back and forth.
The fact that Joe and Ak had hugely contrasting opinions on music just made the show work
so well.
If any 3 of the members left the show, it would feel really weird honestly, but I think
that everybody's favourite member left and it's really brought down the entertainment
factor of the show.
(Who Can Replace Him?)
And as you can see from the last few episodes of the show, they are currently guest starring
DJ Whoo Kid to replace Joe at the moment.
And it shows the main issue with trying to replace Joe, because honestly, in my opinion,
the episodes with Whoo Kid were a little boring.
Whoo Kid seems like a great guy but there's just not the same dynamic.
It really shows that the problem is, Joe simply can't be replaced.
No matter who they try to replace him with, it's a lose lose and let me explain exactly
why that is.
You can't win because if you bring in a third host who doesn't rant or drop some wisdom
bombs like Joe, then that interesting character is gone, but if you bring in someone else
who does rant like Joe did, he's just gonna be seen as a carbon copy of Joe no matter
what he does.
Like I said, It's a lose lose situation.
I really enjoyed this show for the short time that I did watch it, it was thought provoking,
funny, entertaining and talked about topics that I wanted to hear about with 3 great personalities
that worked in unison.
But there's no way it will ever feel the same in the future.
Now Joe has left without getting the respect of a proper goodbye, and who knows where the
show will go from here.
I don't know if they will entirely replace Joe with a new host or if they will just have
a rotation of guests on to take his spot, but either way, and I could be very wrong
here, but either way I feel that this show will never be as good as it was without the
presence of everyone's favourite angry rapper.
Well guys, thank you so much for watching this video, I hope you guys did enjoy it,
I know this was a lot of a shorter video, and I think I might do a bit more of these
videos to get a few more uploads throughout the week, some of these shorter discussion
type videos, but it was something that I really wanted to talk on because like I said, I just
got into Everyday Struggle recently and then this happened.
Literally almost as soon as I start watching it, Joe leaves.
So I'm definitely gonna go back and watch some old episodes that I haven't seen, cause
there's a lot for me to go through.
Like I said, I could be wrong and the show could be amazing in the future, but I doubt
it's gonna have the same value that it did before.
So what do you guys think?
Let me know how you feel about Joe leaving in the comments below.
Thank you so much for watching guys, I hope you enjoyed this one, if you did please subscribe,
leave a like if you enjoyed, and I will see you guys all in the next one; this is CDTVProductions
signing out.