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Joe Budden

Joe Budden Books

Hip-hop artist

Joe Budden, born on August 31, 1980, is a renowned hip-hop artist from New Jersey, United States. Known for his unique musical style and heartfelt lyrics, his music has gained widespread popularity among hip-hop enthusiasts.

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“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.”

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

Ifs Real Problem Wanted Real Problems

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“Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.”

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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.”

People Knows Needs Shows Age Color Happenings This Day Time Of Need Life And Time

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“I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.”

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“You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.”

Want Planets And Love Life And Love Without Music

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“Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.”

Too Much Passionate Sane Music Love I Love Music

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“I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.”

Rooms Fans Messages Boards Online Blogs Forums

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“And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.”

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“Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.”

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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.”

Giving Gears Cruise

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“I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?”

Ifs Way Hard Problem Bigs Teach Dog Fool Blind Hungry Ems Big Problems Hard Way Learning The Hard Way Leading The Blind

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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.”

Important Artist Names Creative New York Criticism East Be Creative Feedback Mixtapes North East

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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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“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.”

Bigs Excited Big Things

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“It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.”

Able Goal Term Records Release Short Term Short Term Goals

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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.”

People Years Kind Matter Wanted Believer Firm Digital Pioneers Bandwagon

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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.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Attention Teach Support Fame Majors Treats Treated Plus Routes Support You Accolades Acclaim

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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.”

Important Would Be Able Release

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“I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.”

Thinking Kind Enough Easy Process Gone Information Majors Independent Labels Fortunate Transition

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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.”

Way Needs Technology Records Depends Labels

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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.”

Knows Certain Majors Happenings

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“I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.”

Thinking Political Answers Happened Labels Jam

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“When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.”

Knows Self Dream Age Young Lines Deals Records Crazy Hair Majors Labels Apples Agreement Gray Orange Gray Hair Apples And Oranges

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“I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.”

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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.”

Ifs Said President Lines Fine Bottom Leaving Print Contracts Bottom Line Clauses Fine Print

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“I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason.”

Way Years Reason Millions Plans Happened Higher Believer Firm Suggestions Higher Power

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“I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.”

Thinking Done Process Information Needed Grateful Albums Crafts Get Better Helpful Retrospect

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“I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.”

Enough Good Enough

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“I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the booth, I can say a lot of things and speak about a lot of things that normally I wouldn't be able to speak about to a friend or to family or to a crowd. A lot of times, the things that I say, if you had to categorize it, they would probably call me nuts or crazy. So, you add that aspect of "The Padded Room," which would be almost like an insane asylum.”

Ifs I Can Would Be Able Names Speak Rooms Crazy Aspect Add Crowds Insane Call Me Nuts Asylums Insane Asylum

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“I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.”

Artist Competition Competing

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“I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.”

May Artist Listening Breaths Listeners Delivery Wordplay

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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.”

Years Type Hero Albums Rap Monsters Peter

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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.”

Causes Groups Proud Members Jokes Verses Ongoing Slaughterhouses

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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.”

Ifs Pride Aspect Bars Release Trading

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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.”

People Thinking Support Fans Awareness Areas West Consistent Coast West Coast

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“It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.”

Hard Difficult Buzz

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“It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to.”

Knows Trying Important Sometimes Games Difficult Pay Attention Creating Rely Timing Buzz

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“I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that.”

Thinking Knows Want Kind Doe Bigs Deals Streets Starting Online Big Deal

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“I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Remember Bits Streets Little Bit Hot Starting Online Reverse

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“I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Able Difficult Streets Radio Online Buzz

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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.”

Thinking Able Song Sides Creative Focus Fans Display

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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.”

Trying Long Said Hard Care Fall Feet Take Care Consistent Fall Into Place

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“Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.”

Eye Fun Tvs Checks Through The Eyes

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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.”

People Want Attention Teach Support Treats Treated Support You

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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.”

Way Needs Technology Records Depends Majors Labels

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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.”

Plans Higher Believer Firm Suggestions Higher Power

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“In my world, even sure bets are not certain; 'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.”

World Certain Causes Hip Hop Rap Versions

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“Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.”

Made Mistake Destiny Fate Hip Hop Rap Made A Mistake

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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.”

Hip Hop Careful Rap Fearless Be Careful Fearful Careless Carelessness

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About the Author

Born: August 31, 1980
Known for: Hip-hop artist
Quotes: 64

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