Joe Budden : Highly Underrated
I turned to mix tapes and my previous rap CD's to feed my hunger for lyrical MC's and that is when I came across New Jersey native Joe Buddens freshman album entitled Joe Budden. I had heard Joe Buddens summer hit "Pump It Up" blaring on the radio and was less than impressed at his attempt to sell records with the now coined phrase "Jump Off". Reluctantly I put in the CD anyway and was instantly impressed with what I heard, I was hooked ever since.
Since that time I have purchased and downloaded everything Joe Budden has put his voice on but it was his Mood Muzik 2 mix tape that I realized that, like Mos Def, Joe Budden is extremely underrated. Joe Buddens has an extreme talent of lyrical content, word play, the usage of punch lines, creating original concepts and more importantly his stamina. He raps for lengthy amounts of time and is able to contain your attention because before you can begin to astray the next line grabs and shakes you up.
Overall I love his debut album, I got to know who Joe Budden is because his album consisted of songs like Calm Down and 10 minutes which gives you a personal insight of the life of an MC outside the rap smoke and mirrors that cloud the average artist. Joe Budden succeeds where most rappers don't because of the stamina he displays on his mix tape freestyles and songs not to mention his content is full of passion.
On Mood Muzik 2 Joe Budden has a song called Dumb Out. Dumb Out is a straight seven-minute song of nothing but pure unadulterated lyrical skill. There are no stops, no pauses and most of all there are no choruses. The song is filled with so many memorable lines that the entire song can be entered in the Source Magazine in the Hip-Hop Quotable section. That kind of content is displayed throughout the entire CD.
To add to his list of talents is his ability to paint extraordinary vivid pictures through his music that is displayed on his song 3 Sides to a Story. 3 Sides to a Story is a song that has three separate verses that were longer than the average sixteen-bar verses in regular songs. The song was a story rapped parallel from the point of view of three different people, a young man named Derrick, his sister Sally and their stepfather Boe.
Despite not releasing an album in almost five years, Joe Budden has had his voice on virtually every remixed song in the mix tape circuit. He is found opposite of Remy Ma on Usher's hit You Remind Me, Cassidy's I'ma Hustler & 6 Minutes of Death that also featured Harlem's own Jae Mills & Stack Bundles, Neo'sSexy Love and most recently Omarion's new hit single Entourage just to name a few.
With the southern artists snapping and walking their way into the music industry with catchy Dr. Seuss hooks, 50 Cent and the Game controlling the West Coast & Jay Z's grip on New York it seems as if Joe Budden doesn't fit in the equation although he should. Everyday a one hit wonder, Jibbs, gets into the hip-hop game with one song or some catchy new dance and little by little true talent is eclipsed by the circus that we are calling rap. Artists like Joe Buddens, Common and Mos Def are being replaced with "artists" that will not be here in four months. In that time the next hip-hop clown will emerge with something else new and true artists will become further extinct. Joe Budden will not see that happen not if he can help it. Joe continues to create and release classic genuine music that keeps the talent that has been lost from music.
Joe's passion in undeniably present in his delivery and his talent should not be over shadowed by the likes of D4L, Jibbs or any other fool with a gimmick. Joe Budden is arguably the most talented yet sadly underrated artist doing music right now. When people talk about the best rappers alive the conversation should include Joe Budden right in between Jay Z and Lil' Wayne.
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Post a CommentJay Z may still have a hold on New York radio, it's uncertain. But the real artists out of New York are still prominent underground and in the mix tape circuit. Most of the commercial rappers on the East Coast like Fabolous, Philly rappers like Cassidy, Eve, etc. are pretty nice on a freestyle and in battle. I never did get past Cassidy embarassing Freeway on YouTube, or his freestyle that went on for what must have been like 25 minutes even though only 10 got put on YouTube. I burned that to CD. Even Rakim is underground these days, so I'm not sure why we aren't seeing more of Joe Budden going up against Murda Mook, for instance.
Of course the South has a lot on originality; as weak as some of the artists are the fact that they have a new dance every week and slick beats they continue to make a lot of noise. But d4l and Jibbs, or MIms or even Dem Franchise Boyz. My God; all people need to see is like Jeezy's wordplay, and something fresh and Joe is back in there ...
What I was getting from one of Joe's interviews with The Source, I think it was, is that he doesn't know how to get around the politics of the rap game. Pump It Up was as well recieved as any fo Coolio's sell out records, as there were many of them, so Joe Budden should have had that success. Even Ice T has enough mainstream records that you are hard pressed not to find someone that doesn't know him, though we all know that records like Power are anything but.
Joe caught a raw deal and radio wasn't too interested in the next single the company wasn't too interested in promoting another single and one thing led to another and so on and so forth. Game is underrated, but mainly by female fans. Game isn't mainstream and isn't putting out records like 50, which is the first real indication he wasn't cut out for G Unit. On the other hand Joe Budden is underrated by everyone.
I read this article second to the college debt article and it fit right into the Walmart situation too. I would tell anyone who would listen about how underrated and talented Joe Budden was, loved "10 Minutes" and "Calm Down" although "Fire" was my ish until the chorus with "There's some hoes in this house." But Budden is full of emotion, gifted lyrical content, and storylines. I don't know why the Game got into it with him and thought he was a better rapper. The Game is cool, but Joe Budden is better. I enjoyed the song he did with Marques Houston "In the Club" and how many lyricists do you know that would openly admit that they used to do heavy drugs (was it crack?) and is now out of those stages? Black men don't admit things like that, at least not usually. I'll be glad when he releases another album and the first in line too!