8:55 AM PT -- Jax just replied to our story, saying, "Come on it’s kind of funny, wasn’t trying to be a dick. It happens to be best of us. Drake should make a song though 'started at the top now we here'. Maybe next album?"

"Vanderpump Rules" ﻿star Jax Taylor ﻿took glee in watching Younes Bendjima slum it like all the normies after Kourtney Kardashian dumped his ass.

Jax posted this photo Monday night at an L.A. gym, as Younes contemplated his water bottle and his next exercise.

TMZ broke the story ... Kourtney pulled the plug on her relationship with the 25-year-old model last month ...shortly after their trip to Italy.