74 Quotes by Joe Budden

My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.

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.

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've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.

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.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

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.

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.