Yung Miami Laughs At Joe Budden Getting “Pump It Up” Gold Plaque After 20 Years, He Responds

Yung Miami couldn’t help but chuckle after seeing Joe Budden receive a Gold plaque for his 2003 hit “Pump It Up” in 2024, prompting the podcaster and former MC to respond to the slight slight.

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Presented by LL Cool J, Budden received the plaque on his Joe Budden Podcast last weekend, where he revealed the framed accomplishment to applause from his co-hosts and crew. The song originally went Gold in August of 2023.

A repost from the @SayCheese account on X/Twitter found Yung Miami dropping several cry-laughing emojis, which she then shared to her own page. Once made aware of Miami laughing at the plaque, Budden took to his own account to post, “It would be too easy…..”

Most took this to mean it would be easy for Budden to take shots at Yung Miami’s album sales, as well, as the City Girls’ last album, RAW, struggled to move units. The “Act Bad” rapper, however, replied with a charming sense of humor, reminding Joe that he has laughed at her in the past, so he shouldn’t take her dig to heart.

“Another one bites the dust remember??? You was just celebrating when you THOUGHT I took an L. I can laugh, YOU was just laughing at me so LETS LAUGH!,” she suggested, adding three more cry-laugh emojis.

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“You’re right… I’ll laugh tmw,” Budden replied alongside a hand-heart emoji. “Like i always say, laughter is good for the soul.” Check out the exchange below.

Budden spoke with Billboard in 2018 about the making of “Pump It Up” in celebration of the track’s 15th anniversary. “To be perfectly honest with you, I had never had a huge single,” the New Jersey rep said at the time. “I didn’t know the workings of a huge single. I didn’t know what it took to create one. When I picked that beat, I was really just trying to be true to the essence of Hip-Hop, with the A Tribe Called Quest “’Scenario (Remix).’

“All the samples that were in it. I was just like, ‘Let me do some sample-heavy, New York, fast-tempo sh*t where you could just spit,’ he went on. “My goal was just to spit over an up-tempo beat. I had no idea it would eventually turn into a club record and a radio record. Trust me, I didn’t know how to even try to go about making that.”

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