Yesterday, Vic Mensa revealed that his new album The Autobiography originally included a diss aimed at a fellow rapper until JAY-Z stepped in and advised him to remove it.

On today’s episode of Complex’s Everyday Struggle, Joe Budden not only claimed that this is common behavior from Jay, but accidentally revealed that the Roc Nation mogul similarly stepped in and told Fabolous not to respond to Kendrick Lamar after Kendrick dropped his infamous “Control” verse in 2013.

“We’ve heard a lot of these stories from artists about Hov saying you should change a line,” said Joe Budden, who has dealt with his own issues with Jay in the past. “What’s most memorable is Fab going to record his response to Kendrick’s—that whole shit. And then he said Hov—oh shit, did he say that?”

After Joe Budden realized that he was revealing something that wasn’t publicly known—and likely betraying the confidence of his longtime friend and collaborator Fabolous—he tried to keep it moving. “Anyway, forget about that,” he said. “But we’ve heard these stories for quite some time about Hov just guiding people and directing people, he’s done it with me, he’s done it before. So him directing a Roc Nation artist, that’s not surprising.”

Joe’s revelation explains two things. First of all, it gives context behind these lines from Kendrick’s To Pimp A Butterfly cut “Hood Politics”:

Had the Coast on standby “K. Dot, what up?

I heard they opened up Pandora’s box”

I box ‘em all in, by a landslide

Nah homie we too sensitive, it spill out to the streets

I make the call and get the coast involved then history repeats

But I resolved inside that private hall while sitting down with Jay

He said “it’s funny how one verse could fuck up the game”

It also makes this infamous tweet Fab posted after “Control” dropped look a lot less bad:

Although Fab never fully responded on wax, he did namedrop Kendrick on stage at Power 105.1’s Powerhouse 2013. “The thing about Kendrick saying he king, don’t ask me how I took it, nigga,“ he said. "The real niggas know all the kings came from Brooklyn, nigga.”

Fab later talked to DJ Vlad about his initial reaction to “Control”:

I had mixed feelings about it at first. I thought it was something he shouldn’t have said and you have to address it, but after speaking to some of the OGs and getting some research behind it, I had more of an understanding of it.

He also claimed that he had a response ready before “an OG” talked him out of it.

“I almost jumped the gun, I’m not gonna lie,” said Fab. “An OG also told me that if you do, do it on your time when it works for you. Don’t just try to do it to feed your Twitter mentions.”

After hearing Joe’s comments today, It seems likely that “OG” Fab spoke to was JAY-Z.

Watch the full episode above (the Vic Mensa discussion starts around the 7:30 mark) and read all the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar’s “Hood Politics” on Genius now.