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I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

Joe Budden

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Joe Budden
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: August 31
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Podcaster
Rapper
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New York City
New York
Joseph Anthony Budden II
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I get a lot of support from the West Coast. But I think that's beginning to change. I think, as the awareness goes up, and as I continue to be consistent, more people from my area come around, and they're converted into Joe Budden fans.
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I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.
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God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.
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If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great.
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If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.
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Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.
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I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.
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A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.
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Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.
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Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.
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You’ll never progress if you never try
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For Joe Budden fans, and for Joe Budden, I like to focus on the creative side, and havin' a thought and bein' able to execute it in the booth. I think that song best displays me being able to do that.
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Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse, Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.
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I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.
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I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.
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They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me
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I would have had a clause in my contract I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, If the president leaves, I'm leaving. That'd be the bottom line.
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You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me.
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I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.
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