RapBasement.com caught up with Joe Budden and asked whether he felt pressure with all the hype ahead of the release of his debut album 'Walk With Me' on June 17th & much more.

Below is the whole entire interview:

RapBasement.com: Magazines such as Vibe, The Source, and XXL have noted your pomising career . Does this worry you that you could end up with the curse of high anticipation like Canibus?

Joe Budden: ( Laughs hysterically) No Shit (Laughs)

RapBasement.com: You like the wording?

Joe Budden: No man,I’m not worried at all. I think that Canibus problem, and I hate to start talking about people, but I think that his problem were more so that he created such a crazy buzz on the streets and didn't have the songs to follow up with em.

RapBasement.com: You can't get but so far with the battle rap shit.

Joe Budden: Yeah, I mean I kinda tried to break that early on when I thought that people started to think I wasn't nothing but metaphors. I tried to throw some songs out there early to just let them know that battle raps wasn't all you would get when you hear Joe Budden. So, no I'm not worried about that happening.

RapBasement.com: With the whole High-Anticipation, do you feel more pressure to succeed in the main-stream market?

Joe Budden: I know that the pressure is on me. I do know that, but no I don't feel pressured. Not at all. I dont know if it's cause the people that are applying the pressure are good at it, or because I'm that calm. I dont know, but I dont feel it.

RapBasement.com: I read that you started in HipHop at the age of 10. Does that mean you started rhyming at that age or just began to feel the Influence of the Music?

Joe Budden: Naw, I didn't start rhyming at the age of 10. But I did start to feel the influence at that age and before. I didn't start rhyming till maybe the age of 14.

RapBasement.com: You've put out several club style tracks. Is that your favorite style or is it just a style to satisfy the label and radio?

Joe Budden: I wouldn't say its a style to satisfy label and radio, I don't honestly make music to satisfy the label. (Laughs) But it just so happened. My favorite tracks are very slow and very calm but the club tracks I like them alot. I used to club alot in Jersey, we would dance and do all that kinda stuff. So, it was good to just see people dancing and vibing, feelin' the song from a new artist when they didn't know how he looked or nothing.

RapBasement.com: You've worked the mix tape circuit alot in your career. Do you feel its benefited you much as far as Street Credibility?

Joe Budden: Definitely. I credit alot of my sucess to the mixtapes. That's where I started. And no matter what I'm doing I would never try to just not go back there. It's like with anything you forget where you come from. Artists can start on a mixtape then never hit a mixtape again. They start to lose their street credibility. But you know more so then that because theres a million artists get on mixtapes It all depends on how you get on the mixtape, what you say on the mix tape and whether or not the people wanna beleave what you're saying.

RapBasement.com: I read that you grew up listening to LL. How was it working with him on the Focus Remix?

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