Joe Budden Explains Why He's In No Hurry To Listen To Eminem's New Album

Eminem's new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), may be number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but Joe Budden isn't in a rush to check it out.

He explained why in a recent episode of his podcast, and it concerns where he is in life as a 43-year-old.

"I will eventually listen to this, but I haven’t yet," said Joe. "I ain’t thought about it yet ... Maybe my life is litter than you guys' is. In my younger years, I couldn’t imagine a day where I didn’t run to an Eminem project, excluding him dissing me [on] Kamikaze. An Eminem project, you rush to it. I know where he stands as an MC. I know what he does, [but] I didn’t feel that urgency with this. It has nothing to do with him or with music."

"I don’t care about none of the Slim Shady sh*t. I don’t care about f*cking Jennifer Aniston or whoever he’s dissing, f*cking Nick Storm, Nick Fury, or whoever he’s dissing," he went on. "For me, Slim Shady helped me to live and stay alive and deal with depression. Back then, that’s what he did for me ... I was never into the funny sh*t ... I’ma check out the Em album, but I felt good that I have outgrown the urgency of having to rush to it."

Were you in a rush to listen to the album?