Hey everyone, Ari Melbert here, and my guest today is the great Joe Budden. As you know, he hosts the Joe Budden podcast, which features a whole range of artists from Pusha T to Nikki Minaj to all of his opinions. And he's here for a digital exclusive on the beat. Nice to see you. Nice to be saying. How are you doing, Art? I'm doing great. Like many people interested in music, I listen to you, you and your folks. Thank you. A lot of people watching this may, but let's take a quick look at the majesty that is the Joe Budden podcast. Let's do it. Did I hit the round of applause button already? Yeah. All right, so it's cool to hate. All right. I don't make singles. I don't make like that, really. As the guy that's been tagged, there's the one hit wonder. Push has made big records. What are you doing over here? How long is this show going to be? A man, right? Yeah, my job. You're going to stop me from working? Oh, no. That's true. You've been tripping lately.

I'm going to ask it like this.

What are you trying to do with your job?

Are you having fun and we get to have fun along with you?

Because you're up close and personal with this and you've lived it.

Or do you have a goal, too, with what you're doing now?

You want to have fun, but the most important thing for me is sharing information, spreading information. I didn't have those outlets when I was coming up when I was

20, 21, 22. So today, for there to be so many different platforms where artists and people in the

entertainment industry can just kind of be privy to things that

they shouldn't be privy to. I'm all for that. So we want to make people informed and aware.

I always think about that when you meet with someone and they ask you questions that are

publicly available answers because it's not always a good use of your time. But nowadays,

with the internet, there's more noise.

There's some more misleading stuff.

But there's a lot more information if someone's coming into the industry, as you say, or just interested in it that you can collect. You mentioned when you were young, you were young 20s. We have some of that too. Let's take a look at the young Joe Button. This is your boy Joe Button, aka regular Joe, BKA, still regular, aka Jump Off, BK.K. Whoa.

Same guy?

No.

And what would you tell him?

Not the same guy.

What would I tell him?

What would I tell my younger self?

That's always a good question. I would just say be comfortable in your skin

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