Drexthejoint calls out Phora for claiming LA instead of Orange County

Drexthejoint has a problem with Phora. In a FOO Community podcast clip posted by Juice Unlocked on July 1, 2025, Drex took issue with Phora for not repping Orange County and claiming Los Angeles instead. Juice Unlocked's caption says Drex can't respect it.

"When you blow up and try to claim LA just for the look," Drex said, before making clear he doesn't like it.

Drex's OC résumé

Drex made his case by running through his own background. He said he was born in North Carolina and moved to Santa Ana as a baby, then listed the local schools he went through, including Wilson Elementary and Willard Intermediate, before graduating from Chavez.

"I'm from OC, I take pride in where I'm from. That's what made me," he said. He added that kids who listen to rap see him as a stamp for the area, because nobody had ever had that before.

“I'm from OC, I take pride in where I'm from. That's what made me.”

The Phora part

Drex said that if Phora had come out saying he was from Orange County, everybody from OC would have taken pride in it. "But he didn't come the way," he said.

He framed that part as secondhand. "From what I know, from what I heard," he said, Phora claimed LA, and another voice in the clip appears to agree, saying that's what they heard too when Phora first came out. Phora does not respond in the clip.

“When you blow up and try to claim LA just for the look”

OC weighs in

The post drew more than 1,400 likes and 266 comments as Juice Unlocked asked followers whether Drex was speaking facts or reaching.

“From what I know, from what I heard”