Being a hotheaded MC, Joe Budden has had a number of high-profile feuds. He doesn’t regret having them because they have taught him a lot and brought him to the point in life he is in right now.
The ex-Slaughterhouse rapper reflected on his past talking with The Pivot podcast hosts. One of them reminded Joe Budden how quick he was to jump into a situation and put gas on fire with his words. Joe didn’t deny it but explained the inner workings of his behaviour:
In some instances, I maybe went about it the wrong way or expressed myself the wrong way, but the intent is always pure. The intent is always for the better of everyone. It’s never a selfish act. When I had my back and forth with Shady Records and Eminem, I was fighting for me and my brothers to get a better situation. What other fights? I forgot all of them now… But there was good intent behind it all.
Noting that Joe doesn’t even remember how many beefs he had, another host asked the Slaughterhouse MC if he ever regretted going into the confrontation. Well, he has no regrets but thinks that a lot of things he should have done differently.
I can’t regret any of it. But [dealing in a different way]? Oh shit, I say that a lot looking back. But I don’t regret any of it ’cause I pulled a lesson from it. All of the yesterdays lead to today. If I change one thing, then the outcome, the result is different.
And it applies to many of his beefs, including his first big fight with Jay-Z:
When Jay-Z got his role as president at Def Jam, I was a young artist on Def Jam trying to work on my second album. And at that time, a lot of the artists on Def Jam had an issue with Jay-Z being the president. This was the first time that a rapper, our peer, was calling the shots, in charge of DMX release date and LL release date, and none of us took that well. And I really didn’t take it well. I didn’t handle myself well at all. Every interview that they booked for me, I kicked them back in. Every chance I got in front of a microphone, I had disparaging things to say about people who, ultimately, were maybe trying to help me. Even if they weren’t trying to help me, if I would’ve helped myself, I would have been in a different predicament. But I didn’t.
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