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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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It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.
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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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They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me
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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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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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Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse, Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.
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Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success
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Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.
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I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.
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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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Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.
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I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.
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You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.
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In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.
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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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I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
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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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You’ll never progress if you never try
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