The previous Slaughterhouse rapper’s podcast reportedly earns $1 million month-to-month by means of Patreon, making him the platform’s high earner and solidifying his media dominance.
Joe Budden is pulling in seven figures each month from his podcast’s Patreon, based on a New York Instances profile that breaks down his booming subscriber base and enterprise mannequin.
The previous rapper-turned-media character is reportedly incomes about $1 million per 30 days by means of The Joe Budden Podcast’s Patreon, because of roughly 70,000 subscribers paying between $5 and $50 month-to-month. The figures, confirmed by a Patreon spokesperson, place Budden because the platform’s high earner.
Testa initiatives Budden and his workforce may herald $12 million by the top of 2025 if the present tempo holds.
The numbers went public simply weeks after Budden by accident posted a screenshot revealing his Patreon earnings—$902,000 for the month—with out blacking out the entire. The picture shortly circulated on-line earlier than he tried to delete it. On a later episode of his present, Budden admitted the leak wasn’t precisely a mistake.
“My second of pleasure, I mentioned to Ian, ‘Yo, do me a favor, massive canine, on a FaceTime. Hey, blackout all this different s###. I must hit that $30 million on him,’” he mentioned.
He later joked within the Instances piece that the viral second led to a wave of wage requests from his co-hosts.
Budden’s present success follows a rocky historical past with streaming platforms. He beforehand walked away from a take care of Spotify, claiming the corporate undervalued his contributions. Earlier than that, he was a number on Complicated’s On a regular basis Battle, the place he mentioned he was paid simply $500 every week.
Even when offered with a profitable $44 million provide within the early 2020s, Budden declined, selecting as a substitute to keep up management of his content material and construct independently.
Earlier than changing into a media mogul, Budden was finest recognized for his 2003 hit “Pump It Up” and his position within the Hip-Hop supergroup Slaughterhouse. He later transitioned into commentary and podcasting, gaining a popularity for blunt takes and viral moments.
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