Thats the generation he comes from. Wasnt no help or nepotism in the 90's. You literally had to get it out the mud. These new nikkas cant identify. They all connected to someone even in media. Brent is a plant and even worse Technology is behind his cheat code. Good for him i guess
The Official Joe Budden Podcast Thread
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KFBF
Superstar
Joe at his core is still a jersey dusthead. Theres no rhyme or reason to his thought processes beyond that.
JayStarwind
Superstar
is this why I'm not close with my family? There's three male family members around my age in the immediate family and we rarely hang out.L Ray
All Star
Eh I think it depends. My cousin is my best friend and has been for 20+ years, but he has brothers around my age and I don't fukk with them fags
. Don't even claim em as family 
threattonature
Veteran
How wasn’t there no help or nepotism in the 90s? To get on you literally had to go through a gatekeeper cause there really wasn’t no avenue to blow yourself up. Hell Joe got put on by Clue.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
I like how everyone is missing Con’s point. I’m wondering if nikkas have comprehension skills or not.
KFBF
Superstar
What do you think his point is that everyone is missing?
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
He's speaking mainly for the up and coming rappers. They dont try to break any artist from NY. Its the same shyt 50 and french had to go through. nikkas needed to get to a whole other region get a look.
lol...FNO in my top 5 best tapes....Trinidad James is the reason we got blessed with AON
I don’t know why you aren’t close to your family
I think Joe family knows he’s full of shyt and that’s why he’s no close
You can damn near pinpoint every major rappers co-sign from the mid 90s to the 00s
The romanticizing of 90s hiphop on here will forever be hilarious
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
Yeah and thats clown shyt.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
Nah Ice trying to cop pleas and Joe with the Extras is hilarious 
Thats New York. Where was that in florida or SC or Texas? nikkas had to grind just to be regional. The whole south cried for years about NY hating and not giving them a chance. You wasnt there fam
ReasonableMatic
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threattonature
Veteran
You using 50 as an example? 50 was signed and hyped up way before his mixtape run. Big problem for 50 was all the beef shyt and even then he had major labels in a bidding war to sign him after he got his name big. Before that though he was already working with Nas and Onyx, including being in that Kill It in The Club single with Onyx. Also him dropping How To Rob and dissing damn near every major NY rapper didn't help his cause either.
So rappers like Trick Daddy and JT Money didn't get the Luke cosign? A lot of Texas rappers got on with the Ghetto Boys cosign. The way it usually worked is somebody would have a big breakthrough regional hit that eventually went national. Once that happened these labels would come through looking for the next act from that region (a lot of times with the cosign of the first act that brokethrough) to try and capitalize. It's the reason Cash Money was on the heels of No Limit, Chingy on the heels of Nelly, JT Money and Trick Daddy after the resurgence of Luke, Twista blew up after Bone (who had the Eazy E cosign) and Cruical Conflict's Hay went nuts. After Death Row's blow up you saw West Coast artists like Celly Cell, E-40 and others get crazy attention. Labels back then were looking for the next trend in hip-hop which lead to a lot of artists getting signed and pushed.
I was 100% there. I'm from the midwest and fukked with music from all regions. The majority of artists from that time usually had to grind to build up the regional following which is the same as now. Once they get noticed it still took some sort of industry cosign to push them through to that next level.