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.
You’ll never progress if you never try.
Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success.
Maybe I’m regular and the world needs to adjust?
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
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.
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.
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.
Why try to fit in when you a stand out?
Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.
God I hear you giving me an earfull but I’m gonna cruise in 5th gear until I’m near you.
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 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.
Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.
You take music out of life and love. I don’t want to be on a planet without music.
Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.
I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.
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.
Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one.
Where I’m at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.