Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Budden
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Joe Budden.
Last updated on September 20, 2024.
In my brain, it's simple: On the podcast, we're really never serious about anything, ever.
You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.
I want to get us out of a place where the veterans are chastising the new artists and vice versa. I think we should all just support each other.
I'm trying my best to keep things exactly the same. Spotify hasn't changed my process other than doubling up. We do twice a week now.
I think that's why most people listen to me - it is relatable. Who doesn't have a drama-filled story with an ex? We all do.
There's no one aspect of my life that is more hidden than others. I mean, everything is pretty much an open book in every regard: relationships, personal, business, music, family, problems, demons, everything is well documented.
Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn't have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.
State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.
Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.
My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.
Early on, it was real tough for me to stick to my guns and say 'I'm retired, I'm not rapping, don't ask me for nothing.' But I had to do that because I love rapping and I love music, so if I don't do that, you can't be halfway in it and halfway out.
While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that's probably where our similarities stop.
That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.
I've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.
You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you go on tour you're still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.
I'm such a spiritual man. I think that displayed in the music throughout the course of my career.
Yeah, well I've had a record deal for a long time so I'm kinda used to the cameras and the people, I'm used to dealing with peoples' opinions.
I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.
You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.
I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.
At Revolt, everyone's always open minded and always coming together for a solution.
I'm the first person to shamelessly admit that I don't know it all. With that said, my attitude is if such that if I don't know something I want you to enlighten and inform me so we can grown and get somewhere together - even if that means we ultimately agree to disagree.
I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I'll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.
Remember the Titans' is one of my favorites, not so much because of the actual record, but because there's so many different backstories.
I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn't expose because they are not anyone's business. I hold them sacred, it's how I feel, it's my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.
I've always been outspoken. I've always been honest. I've always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.
Even in this podcast media lane, sometimes you still have to wear your MC hat and let people know how you feel about yourself as an MC, which is very confident.
I may catch some flack for this, but the Jersey style I feel is just very different from New York. When I hear a Jersey MC spit, I can just hear New Jersey in them. To where as NY, that style has been broadcasted so nationally that it's just a natural sound in music.
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.
People put mixtapes out every few months, every year. They come often. Not 'Mood Muzik.' It's a totally different type of monster. And when you hear it, you should be able to understand why.
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired to write because it was your job. That's how passion, creativity, and love gets killed.
I couldn't tell you what the standing is in radio, I'm in the streaming world. I'm in the podcasting world. Radio just sounds archaic almost. It's a never-ending battle. I'm so glad I'm retired so I don't have to see the nonsense.
Music is my therapy.
And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.
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.
I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.
In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.
Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?
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.
Why try to fit in when you a stand out?
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
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?
Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success
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.
Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.
Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.
You’ll never progress if you never try
Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present
They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me
God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.
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.
I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.
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.
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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