Joe Budden
You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.Collection: Religion
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.Collection: Relationship
My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.Collection: Mom
I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.Collection: Stranger
Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your successCollection: Sometimes
They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against meCollection: World
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.Collection: Fall
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?Collection: Dog
Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Color
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.Collection: Mistake
God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.Collection: Giving
You’ll never progress if you never tryCollection: Progress
Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.Collection: Cancer
Why try to fit in when you a stand out?Collection: Trying
Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.Collection: Stools
I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.Collection: Suggestions
I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.Collection: Artist
And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.Collection: Too Much
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.Collection: Passionate
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.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Sky
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.Collection: Rap
I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.Collection: Good Enough
Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.Collection: Important
I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Leaving
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Certain
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Support You
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.Collection: Ongoing
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.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Support You
Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Excited
You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.Collection: Life And Love