Joe Budden chopped it up with Angry Fan Radio recently about his battle vs. Hollow Da Don on Shady Records' Total Slaughter battle card.  He spoke about the overall experience and how he felt as though "God gave me everything," regarding obstacles that he had to overcome as the battle played out.  

Joe explained that while the general consensus from the fans is that his second round was his best round, he initially thought before going into the battle that his second was the weakest of his three rounds.  He also addressed being booed heavily in his third round and why exactly he decided to drop his microphone and stop rapping at one point.

"To be honest, I don't know what happened," Joe said.  "I don't know what happened then. It just seemed like they were ready to boo.  It didn't get to me mentally at all, which is the thing.  In my profession, you don't rap over boos. It's like Rapper 101 to know that if you at a show and ni**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*ck 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*ck about boos. But my thing in my head was, 'My mic is already bad and I really do have some sh*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."

Joe also admitted to feeling disappointed at the way his performance and delivery went down in the battle.

"I thought that him and I both underwhelmed.  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."

Source: HipHopDX.com