I’ve been a fan of Joe Budden since I first heard Mood Music 3.
Joe has been an advocate for mental health, through his music. As well as being upfront on loss and bad relationships.
This interview with him and Shannon Sharp is a master class of what therapy and being self aware of oneself can look like. None of use are perfect.
This also proves that anything you want to be successful at is going to be a marathon. You have to run these laps, S/O to Nipsey Hussle, to get to the other side of the (pause) rainbow.
100 Hard Truths
Hard Truths About Life is a collection of unflinching wisdom from voices that shaped history. Philosophers, writers, poets, revolutionaries, and survivors speak across centuries with clarity earned through struggle, loss, power, and consequence.
Each page offers a single truth. No commentary. No explanation. Just language that has endured because it names what people try to avoid. Time. Choice. Suffering. Love. Responsibility. Freedom. The cost of being awake.
This book is meant to live in shared spaces. Picked up at random. Read slowly. Put down thoughtfully. It does not tell you what to believe. It asks you to sit with what is already true.
A quiet companion for long nights, hard conversations, and moments of reflection. Not motivational. Not comforting. Honest.
Some pages will feel like confirmation. Others like confrontation. Both are intentional.
This is not a book you finish.
It is a book you return to.
The Travels of Trxp Carter 