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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.

Joe Budden

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Joe Budden
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: August 31
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Podcaster
Rapper
Singer
New York City
New York
Joseph Anthony Budden II
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Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.
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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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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 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 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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I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
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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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You’ll never progress if you never try
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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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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 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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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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Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.
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Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.
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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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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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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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