Joe Budden is following the rules and has stayed holed up as COVID ravishes his city.

Budden, and his quarantine beard, joined Lupe Fiasco for a chat, which Lupe kicked off by asking Budden what it's like living in the New York, which Corona has hit harder than anywhere in the world.

"I’m actually abiding by what they’re telling us to do, which is stay in the house,” he said. “New York is f*cked up. We’ll bounce back. It’s just going be a slow, slow process. I believe all this sh*t is some form of population control anyway."

"The population has to be controlled," Lupe agreed.

So far, there are almost 15,000 dead in New York City and about that many gone in the surrounding suburbs as a resulted of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Budden and Lupe haven't always agreed in the past, but their views on Corona seem to align.

Would you call COVID population control?