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Had Joe Budden not become one of hip-hop’s most talented MCs, what career path would he have chosen instead? “I would have become a lawyer,” the Jersey City resident concedes in his authoritative baritone voice, “because I like to debate.” With characteristically wry humor, Budden adds: “But I wasn’t that good at the school thing.” Though his dreams of litigation may have been premature ...more


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