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Slaughterhouse founder Joe Budden has released his new solo album, No Lost Love. On the heels of November's free A Loose Quarter mixtape, the LP features lead single She Don't Put It Down Like You and "NBA."
Joining Budden on No Lost Love are guests Crooked I, Emanny, French Montana, Joell Ortiz, Juicy J, Kirko Bangz, Lil Wayne, Lloyd Banks, Omarion, Royce Da 5'9", Tank and Wiz Khalifa, while production credits include usual suspects araabMUZIK, Beewirks, Cardiak and T-Minus.
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Fans can also check out Joe Budden's previous albums: Joe Budden - A Loose Quarter | Joe Budden - Mood Muzik 4: A Turn for the Worse | Joe Budden - Padded Room | Joe Budden - Halfway House | Joe Budden - Mood Muzik 3: For Better or For Worse
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Joe Budden ft. Wiz Khalifa & French Montana - NBA (Never Broke Again)
Joe Budden, Wiz Khalifa and French Montana may each be at a different stage in his career, but they’ve got one thing in common: having made it thus far in the game, they’re Never goin’ Broke Again. The...Read More
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Joe Budden - Castles
With the second season of Game of Thrones less than two weeks away, I could not be more excited. Perhaps I am too pumped up because I saw the title of Joe Budden’s latest, Castles, and figured it would be an epic ode to the...Read More
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Joe Budden ft. Fabolous, Twista & Tank - She Dont Put It Down Like You (Remix)
If it takes a second or two for She Don’t Put It Down Like You (Remix) to stream, don’t flip out about your Internet connection. Given the heavyweights on this remix of Joe Budden‘s current single, you should be...Read More
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Joe Budden ft. Lil Wayne & Tank - She Don’t Put It Down Like You
Joe Budden has a reputation for messy public breakups, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t cherish memories of the good times he and his exes enjoyed together—particularly when those good times happened to take...Read More
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DJBooth Album Review
A lot of words will be written about Joe Budden’s new album, No Love Lost, but I’m confident I’ll be the only writer who opens their review with a quote from Walt Whitman: “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Hip-hop likes its artists consistent and predictable. You can be “crazy” or outlandish, just as long as you’re crazy and outlandish in the same way every time. (See also Juicy J, Rick Ross, etc.) But human beings, real human beings, are inherently messy. We contain multitudes, contradictions, even hypocrisies. And with apologies to Kanye West, there may not be a rapper alive today more devoted to revealing his true humanity, contradictions, failures, triumphs and everything else that goes along with being alive, then Joe Budden.
Budden spent his early career with his face splashed on MTV, then spent the next several years raising a middle finger to the major label machine, and is now signed again to a major label…as part of a group. He clearly makes music with mainstream radio play in mind, then will turn around and release a 20 minute drug abuse narrative that mainstream radio wouldn’t dream of touching. He’ll swear he doesn’t give a fraction of a f**k about fame, and then sign up for a VH1 reality show. It should be no surprise then that No Love Lost is just as wide-ranging and complex as its author, but perhaps the biggest testament to Joe’s skill is that the project still sounds cohesive.
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, and Budden’s prolific social media output, we know that he’s currently head over….Jordans for his new lady, Kaylin Garcia. In that context is a track like Switch Positions featuring Omarion (aka Mr. “Now That I’m Signed to MMG You Can Still Be Hard And Have Me Sing Your Hook”). As the title may suggest, Positions is as close to a love jam as you’re going to get; in between all the double entedres there is some real, dare I say, true romantic in Joe’s delivery. And Positions has nothing on You And I, which lyrically exhibits some of Joe’s trademark dysfunction, but is ultimately a pretty pure love song. In fact, he just goes ahead and ends each verse with a candid, “I love you.” Get out the bubble bath and rose petals ladies, a kindler and gentler Joe Budden is on the way…
….wait, on second thought, you might not want to be so quick to make No Love Lost the soundtrack to your next seduction. There’s also no shortage of Joe’s trademark audio therapy sessions, although unlike Mood Muzik they’re all a respectable six minutes or under. All In My Head brings on the recently sober Royce Da 5’ 9” for a gripping look at the destructive nature of addiction, while he completes the Slaughterhouse circle by recruiting Joell Ortiz and Crooked I for the fearlessly honest Skeletons. There aren’t many emcees on Earth with the depth and talent to rap like this; in fact, there may only be four, and Joe’s one. The more rock-infused Runaway (in fact, there’s a lot of rock infusion happening on this album), the title track Outro, there’s some serious lyrical firepower throughout No Love Lost, and Budden spends most of that firepower blasting away at his demons.
And then, in between the declarations of love and the relentlessly dark lyrical explorations - and the relentlessly dark declarations of love (word to Castles) - we’re given a series of tracks that might best be described as club bangers featuring some famous rap friends. No Love Lost contains both the original and remix to She Don’t Put It Down, a track that definitely plays in the Bandz A Make Her Dance ballpark, as well as the Wiz and French assisted NBA and the Juicy J-enhanced Last Days (speaking of Bandz).
Ironically, on Slaughterhouse’s welcome to: OUR HOUSE these fluctuations between bearing their hearts on their sleeve and strapping a Rolex to that same wrist left the album feeling scattered, but with Joe’s distinct style steering every track, No Love Lost is a much more cohesive and focused work, despite similar fluctuations. Budden’s pulled off a rare feat, but what can I say, the man’s always defied easy definition. He is large, he contains multitudes.
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Average Member Rating: Total Ratings: 15
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I like this album a lot. You never know what you're gonna get with Joe but he is my favorite lyricist hands down and I hope this album gives him the exposure he deserves. The only songs I didn't like were "NBA" and "Last Day" but even they had a place on the album trying to get some big name features. Much respect to Joe Budden, if you've been sleeping on him you need to wake up.
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| Posted on Feb 06, 2013 |
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Joe Budden killing it like always...
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| Posted on Feb 07, 2013 |
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Great album.. wanted a little more mood muzik joe but cant complain. He is in a different space n place in his career and life and is dropping great music that reflects just that.Good features and great lyrical content & concepts... #RealestToEverDoIt
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| Posted on Feb 07, 2013 |
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Great review. I've been a fan of Budden since his earliest days and I've never felt as happy about a project as this one. It's his most successful attempt at bridging the gap between radio friendly and "mood muzik" we've heard thus far in his career. Not must else to say but great job Joe. I'm proud to carry the flag as a fan. Keep doing what you're doing. Salute!
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| Posted on Feb 07, 2013 |
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| Posted on Feb 08, 2013 |
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DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 14 |
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Great way to start off 2013, Joe Budden's got another one in the books
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| Posted on Feb 08, 2013 |
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Definitly not what I was expecting, But Joe never disappoints me. Joe's lyrics are relatable to me, I guess thats why I dig his music. Stand out tracks for me. Castles and Runaway.
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| Posted on Feb 08, 2013 |
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| Posted on Feb 08, 2013 |
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Honestly Joe my favorite hip hop artist but not really feeling this album I agree with NINO RIVERA below wish I coulda got a little more MOOD MUZIK type stuff but he is trying to keep himself relevant so I aint hatin'
Only songs i really like are Ghetto Burbs, My time, and more of me. All that gay wiz khalifa lil wayne trash can gtfoh sorry joe 2 stars cant wait for another mood muzik though |
| Posted on Feb 10, 2013 |
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| Posted on Feb 14, 2013 |
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I really didn't like this album that much. I understand that Joey wants some mainstream appeal but this whole album is just way too glossy and ritzy. His verses were great but he just doesn't sound right on the tracks. Songs like NBA and Last Day could have been taken off the album. Some of my favorite songs were Ghetto Burbs, Skeletons, and Runaway.
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| Posted on Feb 17, 2013 |
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BY FAR THE MOST UNDER RATED ARTIST AND IN MY BOOK ONE OF THE GREATEST HE TALKS REAL LIFE
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| Posted on Feb 22, 2013 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 17 |
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Best Commercial release for joe I think, was excited for this to come out finally
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| Posted on Mar 01, 2013 |
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| Posted on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Decent. Like his tapes and him in Slaughterhouse better
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| Posted on Jun 08, 2013 |
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