Joe Budden isn’t the greatest rapper alive, by a long stretch, but he may be the most honest. Where Eminem tries to glam up his psychopathology, Buddens is known for honest, self-disclosing rhymes about his upbringing, his own drug use . . . He doesn’t bang or even pretend to bang. This year, he dropped the hotly anticipated Mood Muzik 3, and it lived up to all the hype. It’s one of the best street albums of all time.
But he’s best at battlerapping. Here’s a few reasons why.
1. Kid Brother-Ransom. Ransom and Joe played together with The A-Team for years, producing some of the greatest underground East Coast gangsta rap of all time. But they’ve fallen apart, and here’s why.
2. Joe retaliated with this: Heart of the City (Ransom diss)-Joe Buddens. Using Jay-Z’s beats to respond to a battlerhyme over a Kanye tribute to Jay-Z. Brilliant.
3. And if Ransom didn’t get the message: Ransom Note-Joe Buddens. The spoken intro to this is hysterical. “Someone gonna die tonight. And what do you know? I’m alive!”
4. Joe famously attacked Jay-Z on “Talk 2 ‘Em,” and Jay’s reponse wasn’t so great. A great article about it is here. Joe Budden Diss-Jay-Z. Jay’s more of a braggart than a battle rapper, and he says he’s not coming after anyone in particular, but everyone knew the beef with Joe was on.
5. But Joe’s most famous battle was against G-Unit. Breathe (Freestyle 50 Cent Diss-Joe Buddens).
6. Heartbeatology (G Unit diss)-Joe Buddens. 50 a singer, calls G-Unit the 5 Heartbeats; says 50 will always be a Onyx type. And yeah, I didn’t upload any of G-Unit’s attacks because they’re lame.
7. Lonely At The Top (Game Diss)-Joe Buddens. Joe’s biggest mistake was to attack Game. It was back with Game was still affiliated with G-Unit. But Game never gives up.
8. Buddens-Game. To Ice-T’s Colors, Game murders Joe.
9. Joe tried to spit back with Game Over-Joe Buddens, but he’d already been killed.
10. Last but not least: Def Jam Diss-Joe Buddens. This is more of a bitter story of how Joe’s major record deal fell through, but it’s a great rap.
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June 21, 2008 at 12:30 am |
so stupid if you think Game had a chance against that boy. You must just be writing this shit and not even listening to the songs.
June 21, 2008 at 8:49 am |
You’re right! You figured me out! It’s not a question of taste (mine being good, you being wrong), it’s just that I don’t even listen to these songs! You figured me out and I will now shut down this blog.
Thank you for your kind words and thoughts.
June 24, 2008 at 1:08 pm |
lemme get this straight, lyrically we all knw who is where and id give it to Buddens for lyricism purely. and as for the battle records thrown at each other, come on ! its pretty obvious tht game took it . Buddens sure did his thiang repping Jerz but Game got dude this time, besides, on Big Dreams he says, whoever said gameover musta had a hangover. rightly said. i love buddens, but he fucked it up all with his worldwide debut single, tht pump it up shit. well buddens got game no doubt but game done chopped him up moved ahead and is done chopping newer cats. and no dont temme im dickriding cuz i study this whole shit all day and im looking at it from a subjective perspective.so boy pls stfu and repect the worthy.
July 23, 2008 at 3:00 am |
Joe Budden is one of the realist rappers to ever do it
its a real shame no one takes him serious at a high level
cuz for real mayne joe stays true to himself he really does
mayne joe defiently a real nigga
plus he dont loos beefs, but i gotta admit Game muttha fu*kin murdered his azz on buddens that shit was to gangsta joe might iv got him with the lyrics
but as for that overall shit Game ripped him apart to tell the truth uno?
mood musiz was a classsic street album joe doing it big mayne
stay up nigga!
August 12, 2008 at 10:27 pm |
your an idiot dude, buddens absolutely destroyed game. i dont know if you just cant desifer buddens lyrics or you just didnt hear his other diss track since u didnt list it. but that doesnt really matter cause game over tore game up…so your retarted
August 12, 2008 at 10:35 pm |
i didnt even see what dumb fuck mike said, you are a dick rider.you abvousily didnt hear budden kill game on the “big shot” (billy joel) beat. not only were games lyrics not as good. but just completely and totally exposes him. why dont u go to this link http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/19/rapper-the-game-shot-down-on-change-of-heart/ **thats game on a dating show, before his fake deep voice, before he got some tatoos, before his steriod induced muscles, before he wrote a fantasy/fiction story of his “compton life” (which by the way hes not even from compton). “im a son of a gun, cause moms was a hoover crip” uh game was a fosterchild who was raised miles outside of LA. Budden completely exposed him, ps game was never in a gang even though he claims he is in every song. Study a little harder dumbfuck