Joe Budden Talks Total Slaughter Battle, Says He And Hollow Da Don Were Underwhelmed

The streets have most certainly been talking about Joe Budden and Hollow Da Don's recent rap battle but they aren't saying good things.

Following the battle, the rapper turned Love And Hip Hop star discussed being booed and why he reacted by putting the mic down onstage with HipHopDX.

"To be honest, I don't know what happened," he said of the crowd reaction. "I don't know what happened then. It just seemed like they were ready to boo."

Budden then went on to explain what was going through his head during the battle.

"It didn't get to me mentally at all, which is the thing," he added. "In my profession, you don't rap over boos. It's like Rapper 101 to know that if you at a show and n***as is booing, 'Ya'll, go ahead and boo. I got paid already.' I'm either gonna wait for ya'll to stop or I'm getting the f**k outta here. But in battle rap it's very different. You gotta deal with it. You gotta rap over it. You can't let it look like it is affecting you. It wasn't that I was mad they was booing. I don't give a f**k about boos. But my thing in my head was, 'My mic is already bad and I really do have some s**t in this third if I could just get it out.' I can't fight a bad mic and a million people booing. But once you threaten people that are booing, they're just gonna boo more. That's exactly what happened."

More generally speaking, Budden says overall he wants impressed by his own performance. He admits to be "a little disappointed."

"I thought that him and I both underwhelmed," he said. "I know that he feels the same. There were major microphone issues which left us both with a decision to make. Hollow, his voice is higher pitched than mine, so he went with the hands-free mic which enabled him to have an amazing performance even if we couldn't really hear what he was saying. But, I felt my words were really important so I went with the mic that you had to hold in your hand which threw everything else off. Horrible performance which went to a horrible delivery. It went to everything. Really the only thing that was good were my words and that was it."

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