“I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's step...” — Joe Budden Quote

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

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.

In my brain, it's simple: On the podcast, we're really never serious about anything, ever.

I've always been outspoken. I've always been honest. I've always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.

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.

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.

I think it's so important that you want to be in the room with these people making music together, because that's what it's all about. Especially hip-hop music, because you have to be vibing.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.