it's pretty interesting stuff, I mean his album was pretty boring but still it was pretty surprising how much it bombed, considering how huge the single was. Def Jam actually released an incredibly stupid statement recently blaming the sales on the confusion about people spelling his name "Buddens", and plan on releasing the next album under both spellings, I shit you not: http://www.streethop.com/rapnews/Def_Jam_explains_Joe_Budden's_poor_sales/2891/
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)
“Pump It Up” came out, was a hit all over the country and so I figured all over they’d want me yeah, the buzz was there, the feeling was timely and Kev said that he would put the whole building behind me yeah, the whole office daps me freely and Mr. Cohen always seems so happy to see me I’m treated like a new man, must’ve got a facelift this is what I dreamed of, welcome to the matrix BET rated me next, we comin’ up, Jersey airtime, MTV buzzworthy if that ain’t make things final the song played all throughout the World Series and the NBA finals wrap up your album Joey, it’s goin’ out now only problem is my voice is goin’ out now doctor said I need a surgery to fix it and it’s somethin’ goin’ wrong, it could be permanently twisted now that’s something I can’t afford so steroid shots in my abs just so I can record all that talkin’ was ruinin’ my chords and on top of it all now Def Jam wants your boy on tour this is important, you can’t back out it’s good exposure and 112’s comin’ back out I’m on the 2nd single, about to shine, June 10th, yep it’s timebut wait, something must be wrong with the SoundScan that’s when it all started to go down, man am I wrong or what here 2 Fast soundtrack did great, and my song was on there are things the way it seems the (?) have a commercial pumpin’ it up with my face onscreen had to change my 2nd single cuz there’s two 112/Budden’s but theirs turned into 112/Luda Lil Jon called me for the “Get Low” remix but Lyor was goin’ through some TVT shit then they went and kept Joe off the Roc The Mic tour somebody probably thought Joe would rock the mic more left the country, did a single with J. Lo but with my luck I knew Columbia would say no radio hates “Fire”, nah, they won’t try it but they love that Rah Digga song that sounds just like it wanna keep me under, dog, I’m the underdog and they don’t want y’all to see up under the fog so y’all, tell they man in the hood gold album, one single, I’d say I’m doin’ hella damn good listen here, Def Jam, are you deaf, man? politics aside, please don’t interject, fam listen to my shit, now listen to the rest, damn (?), that’s without a yes, ma’am three hundred thou budget, I checked, fam did that the last time and I still repped, damn MH thank you, Pharrell thank you, Jim Jones thank you, Lil Mo thank you sad part now is when I walk by and I see Mr. Cohen, he can’t even say hi but I’m a new man, I feel like I got a facelift this is what I dreamed of, time to tackle the matrix
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)
this must be one of the most ridiculous things ever to appear in a press release. so they're gonna clear that confusion right up by releasing TWO otherwise identical albums with DIFFERENT NAMES on either cover? what the fucking fuck. i'm just sad that "the pop off" isn't as good as i'd hoped.
― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)
anyone looking through a common alphabetically arranged record store would SURELY pass "Joe Budden" before "BuddenS" and see the stickers that virtually all major labels put on new albums "Featuring the hit single: ____!" and then the idiot consumer could no doubt match it up.
this is almost as bad as the time I saw someone buying the second album by Matchbox 20 thinking it was a new record by long defunct Mad Season.
― Zachery Shipley, Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― jake in portland (cerybut), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)
al, what do you think of the game?
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)
I've only heard the Game on a handful of tracks so far, and he hasn't stuck out on any of them enough to really form an opinion of him. are there any tracks you'd reccomend?
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)
haha x-post!
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)
for game, check the round here remix with dipset (i found it soulseeking for another dipset/game track that i liked better but couldn't remember the name of)-- he actually sounds like a professional rapper on it (i thought the story about him teaching himself to rap after he got shot was cool, sending out his friend to buy all the classic rap albums he had never heard and studying them). and, i guess, the tupac track from addicted to beef 2 (his freestyles and "hosting" on both addicted to beefs are atrocious). -- that's basically all i know! (i made a thread about him a couple days ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)
ok? ok.
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)
that Round Here rmx was pretty cool. so he just decided to start rapping after he got shot? that's kind of funny, considering he hooked up with 50. I guess he was signed to Aftermath before getting in with the G-Unit, right? you have a good point about how they've got the token southern rapper, the token west coast rapper, etc., I'd thought about that, too. I wonder if 50 is just going to keep picking up new members and making the group bigger and bigger.
I listened to the Budden album all of 2 or 3 times, and always meant to give it another spin but haven't gotten around to it for months and months, so I'm not sure what tracks were good, if any. I liked some of the non-Blaze production, mostly by White Boy, who did "Focus". Budden is just too blah most of the time, though, he sounds kind of like a boring Method Man.
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)
(xpost)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)
-- hh (...), May 3rd, 2004. (tracklink)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)
(x-post: likewise! it's much more enjoyable to talk about specific rappers/tracks in threads like this than all those racially charged clusterfuck 'state of hip hop' threads that always get hundreds of posts)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― hh, Monday, 3 May 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 3 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 3 May 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)