TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Joe Budden

TITLE: Joe Budden

RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 15min total-109.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-06-10
RIP DATE: 2003-05-29

03 Pump It Up                     3:44

05 U Ain't Gotta Go Home          4:54
06 Walk With Me                   5:34
07 She Wanna Know (feat. Lil' Mo) 4:24

09 Fire (feat. Busta Rhymes)      4:21
10 Ma Ma Ma (feat. 112)           4:24

13 Give Me Reason                 3:07
14 Stand Up Nucca                 3:18

16 Real Life In Rap               4:23

Ask Joe Budden what was the rap record
that changed his life and he laughs. All
of them. Ive been doing hip-hop since I
was 10. I was raised with hip-hop. This

Joes destiny is now your reality with
the release of one of the most talked
about debuts in years. ----- is no
frills,hip-hop that doesnt rely on
gimmicks and formula to get the job
done: just a wicked beat and ingenious

Joe describes the first single, Drop
Drop, as being a combination of West
Coast bounce and east coast lyrical
sharpness. Its catchy, Joe offers, a
good club record and I like it. Another
hot record is Get Right Wit Me which
fans might have first heard on
mixtapes. That song caught a little buzz
in New York and some other areas, Joe
modestly explains. Its another feel good

Feel good songs and club bangers are
certainly part of his arsenal but theres
more to Joe Budden. A lot of artists keep
their art and personal lives separate. I
cant do that. Rap is more therapeutic
for me. Whatever Im going through or
feeling I put that into a song. Such is
the case with moody cuts like Survivor
or Walk With Me, which document the
changes Joe has undergone since making
the move from the street corner to the
record industry. I want to be multi-
faceted, Joe says. I got club songs, I
got girl songs. But a lot of my songs
are personal. Helping to keep his songs
personal and devoid of formulaic beats
is his producer Dubbe, one of the core
members of Joes production unit, On Top.
Most of Joes album was produced by On
Top and sticking with his boys was
crucial. Im not really into having a
lot of big names producers on the album.
Im not putting out a compilation and I
want to give people more of me, as
opposed to me and this established

Joe has been a fixture on the highly
competitive mix tape circuit, appearing
on compilations of nearly every major
DJ including street slingers DJ Clue,
Kay-Slay, Cutmaster Cee and Green
Lantern. In fact it was the buzz from
those mixtapes, chiefly a sizzling
freestyle on a Lil Mo/Fabolous cut,
that helped Joe nab his deal with Def

Born In Spanish Harlem, Joe Budden
lived in Queens till he was 11 and
from there moved to Jersey City, which
he still calls home. . The middle child
of 3 boys, Joe heard music in his home,
(his dad is a multi instrumentalist),
and on the streets. He absorbed the
songs of old school legends like Rakim,
Kool G Rap. Krs-One, and Queens natives
Run DMC and LL Cool J and by the time he
turned 16 Joe had decided to take his
love of hip hop and his burgeoning
skills to another level. I went on a
total rampage in my area. If there was a
cipher on the corner, or a show I was
there. After a while it became common
knowledge in my neighborhood that I was
aiight and my confidence grew. So much
so that Joe started hitting local studios
and getting on mixtapes, doing it for
the love and as means of expression.

Soon low-level industry types started
buzzing around, filling his head with
American Idol worthy dreams. The
prospects of fame excited the
17-year-old but nothing came of any of
the promises and so Joe just persevered
and honed his craft. In 2001 everything
changed as one of Joes self produced CDs
made its way to Cutmaster Cee, who
passed it along to Webb of Desert
Storm. Impressed with what hed heard
Webb offered Joe and On Top the
financial freedom to stay in the studio
and concentrate on making mixtapes. It
was only a matter of time before the
really big guns caught wind of what Joe
was spitting and offered him the chance to
shine on his own album.

Ask Joe what he wants people to walk
away with after checking out--- and he
replies, A better feel of me. Not to
feel me like Im an artist but that Im a
regular person. On mixed tapes my
moniker was Regular Joe and I want
people to know that Im regular and down
to earth and also very serious about what
I do. This is the music Ive been wanting
to make all my life.

You wanted, You waited, We Delivered.