Artist: Joe Budden
Genre(s):
Other
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Im Back
Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
Joe Budden
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Mood Muzik 2 (Can It Get Any Worse?)
Year:
Tracks: 20
The hapless success of 50 Cent in early 2003 open the floodgates for other street-level, mixtape-bred rappers, one of whom was Joe Budden, a Jersey City rapper with a decided loose cannon style molded from days of freestyling. Born in Spanish Harlem and raised in Queens, Budden came of eld across the Hudson River in Jersey City, which he proudly continued to repp in his rhymes despite its passably distasteful reputation relation to more traditional rap gentility grounds like Harlem, Brooklyn, the South Bronx, and Queensbridge. Following some troubled teen days that included a erolia minutilla of sizable dose ill-treat, Budden cleaned himself up and focussed his sights on hip-hop fame. He teamed up with producer Dub-B (aka White Boy) and began devising demos, one of which terminated up in the hands of DJ Clue. Soon afterward, Budden was a mixtape fixture, freestyling over pop beat generation on mixes by New York's star DJs, to the highest degree notably Clue, DJ Kayslay, and Cutmaster C. In particular, his "Grindin'" freestyle off heads, as did one of his White Boy productions, "Focus." It wasn't long earlier Budden united On Top direction and went to do work with Just Blaze, one of New York's hottest producers of the instantaneous, topper known for his work with Jay-Z simply besides respected for his sure-fire mercenary do work, such as Erick Sermon's "Respond" and Cam'ron's "Oh Boy." Indeed, a sure-fire attain resulted: "Pump It Up," a club-ready track that connected all over, from MTV to the streets. While all of this was going down, industry hulk Def Jam signed Budden and prepared his self-titled debut record album, which charted well its opening hebdomad, earned some critical fiscal backing, and foreshadowed a bright succeeding for the refreshingly unique rapper.
