The hook may take some getting use to but it fits.īudden goes deeper about his life struggles and staying on the correct path ( “But the boy won’t bend, though the road to the riches is starting to look like it don’t end.”). This song has Budden questioning life and death, which is definitely in his zone “My jargon is I’m a arsonist since 11 when I found out what arson is.” The production here is well down (The sample on the breakdown is hot). I understand the need for the lead single to be for the ladies but the hook is predictable “Yes I am a bad guy, I can see you like it, You can be the headline if I can be your sidekick.” The beat was okay but I guess I was expecting some lyrical gutter type shit. I’m glad that Joe Budden and The Game squashed their beef, but I expected a better song to come out of it. I’m trying to place the sample used (Memphis Beek also used it for “We Are” hit me up if you know).įeaturing The Game & Dominic Produced by Fyu-chur The beat is a great background for Budden to explain how he got here and makes a good introduction to the album. He also uses a classic prayer for the hook ( “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul…”). Joe Budden starts off rhyming with a line from his most well known song “Pump It Up” (Saying that’s where it all started). “I like to welcome everybody to The Padded Room”. Now that Padded Room has been finally hit the street, what’s the verdict? Halfway House was released instead to hold the fans over until then (I really didn’t feel it that much but that’s another story…). His official sophomore album, Padded Room, was originally schedule for an October 2008 released but was pushed back to February 24, 2009. And he even had formed a crew of his own in Slaughterhouse (With Royce Da 5’9”, Joell Ortiz, & Crooked I). He’s aligned himself with a record company that he feels supports him (Amalgam Digital). The Joe Budden of today no longer is the guy who tries to duck the cameras he IS the camera ( ). Even with his Mood Muzik mixtape series, his whole music future looked to be up in jeopardy. Budden’s first album was overlooked (Some say it was too “emotional”) and his second album was shelved by Def Jam. He was a talented rapper that was forced in the whirlwind of “hit” singles and commercial markability. I’ll be honest at one point I had wrote Joe Budden off as another casualty of the Hip-Hop business.
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