Here at 1VIBE we are very big fans of Joe Budden and his talent so its only right we give you a dosage of whats to come. This is going to be Joe Budden’s album cover for his upcoming project titled “Padded Room”. We also have an unofficial tracklisting of the album below which features a track titled “Blood On The Wall” which we recently posted a preview of. The album is supposed to have an October release date.. but we’ll keep you updated when it is all officialy said and done.

Joe Budden - Unofficial “Padded Room” Tracklist

Now I Lay (Intro)
Touch And Go
If I Gotta Go
Don’t Make Me
Outcast
Blood On The Wall
Dreams (In My Sleep)
Couldn’t Help It
Do Tell
My Life
Better Part Of Me
Just To Be Different
Angel In My Life
Pray For Me
All Of Me (Reprise) [Bonus]
1 Night Fuck [Bonus]

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In the video above The Game speaks on the Jay-Z beef and how it started and talks more shit about Hova.. he also speaks about L.A.X. (Part 2 of the video is located after the jump).

The Game also makes it clear that he wants beef with Jay-Z in a recent interview with Complex magazine. Check this out…

The Game: Now, if the man wants to wage a war of words or get into some type of beef, I’m all for it. It would be an honor to beef with Jay-Z. That’s one of the reasons I try to bait him, but he won’t bite. Jay-Z’s smart and he’s going to sit back and wait for this to simmer down. Plus I’m way too disrespectful for the likes of a Jay-Z, and I go too hard. Jay-Z is a subliminal rapper, he uses his words and isolates you like that. I go hard, straight for the jugular, with a knife and I’m cutting your throat and you’re going to bleed all over Manhattan when you beef with me. It’s that serious. When I beef, it’s relentless. I won’t stop until one of us is dead, period. And that’s lyrically. I don’t have to box or fight, or take it to the streets. We’ll keep it a straight wax-war, that’s what beef is all about. But I’m too reckless for him.

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As you may have noticed 1VIBE.NET was offline for two nights in a row. The reason behind this was some server issues that our host had with their clients. Things are back up now and working perfectly. Please bare with us as we get things rolling and as we catch up with the music/videos/stories that we may have missed. No worries though.. we will make sure that we post that HOT & EXCLUSIVE shit which we may have missed. You know how we do.. thanks for rockin with us.. 1VIBE always ontop of the HipHop Game!

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I can so see Curtis reading this and saying “I Get Money, Money i Got… I, I, I GET IT!!”. Money is power homie..

1. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson: $150 million
2. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter: $82 million
3. Sean “Diddy” Combs: $35 million
4. Kanye West: $30 million
5. Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley: $22 million
6. Pharrell Williams: $20 million
7. Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean: $17 million
8. Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus: $16 million
9. André “Dr. Dre” Young: $15 million
10. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges: $14 million
11. Clifford “T.I.” Harris: $13 million (tie)
11. Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter: $13 million (tie)
12. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers: $12 million (tie)
12. Lonnie “Common” Lynn Jr.: $12 million (tie)
12. Aliaune “Akon” Thiam: $12 million (tie)
13. Jermaine Dupri: $11 million (tie)
13. Jonathan “Lil Jon” Smith: $11 million (tie)
14. OutKast: $10 million (tie)
14. Hakeem “Chamillionaire” Seriki: $10 million (tie)
14. Jayceon “The Game” Taylor: $10 million (tie)

Now you know who really banks in from everything that drops in hip hop. This list is fucking dangerous.

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This will be LL Cool J’s last album with Def Jam which is the reason behind the album title “Exit 13″. The album drops in stores September 9th. We have given yall some joints from the album and a few intervies regarding it which you can find by simply searching “LL COOL J” on 1VIBE. What you guys think.. is the album gona be any good?

LL COOL J - EXIT 13 - TRACK LIST:
01. It’s Time For War
02. Old School New School
03. Feel My Heart Beat f. 50 Cent
04. Get Over Here f. It’s Ya Girl Nicolette, Jiz, Lyrikal & Ticky Diamondz
05. Baby f. The-Dream
06. You Better Watch Me
07. Cry f. Lil’ Mo
08. Baby (Rock Remix) f. Richie Sambora
09. Rocking With The G.O.A.T.
10. This Is Ring Tone M… f. Grandmaster Caz
11. Like A Radio f. Ryan Leslie
12. I Fall In Love f. Elan (of The DEY)
13. Ur Only A Customer
14. Mr. President f. Wyclef Jean
15. American Girl
16. Speedin On Da Highway / Exit 13 f. Funkmaster Flex
17. Come And Party With Me f. Fat Joe & Sheek Louch
18. We Rollin’
19. Dear Hip Hop

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With music sales at their all time low it would be a good idea to see how artists match up against eachother and how each genre, Rap and R&B, compare in sales with eachother as well. Below is all the statistics you need to see what is going on these days.

Recent Rap Albums:

Nas’ Untitled has cracked - 300k
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3 - 2.1 million
G-Unit - T.O.S. - 193k
Kanye West - Graduation - 2.1 million
Rick Ross - Trilla - Over 650k
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds - over 150k
Plies - Definition Of Real - 54k short of gold
David Banner - 100k
Three 6 Mafia - 200k
The Clipse Present The Re Up Gang - 10k

Recent R&B Albums:

Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad - 1.5 million
Keyshia Cole - Just Like You - 1.5 million
Ashanti - Declaration - Over 200k
Alicia Keys - As I Am - 3.5 million
Usher - Here I Stand - Shy of a milli
The Dream - Love Hate - is almost gold
Lloyd - Lessons In Love -51k

The big surprise in the Rap album sales is that G-Unit only managed to move 193k records and that Lil Wayne was able to reach and soon surpass Kanye West’s album sales. I do like Rick Ross but 650k is a big number which more talented cats are not moving so i think he should be happy with his promo. Also Nas has yet again moved a good amount of records and im sure he will do more numbers if he drops new videos from his album Untitled.

R&B is defently not suffering like rap albums are but there is a reason for it. In my opinion the quality of the music production and the music itself is at a much higher level than what we are getting from rappers. Surprisingly enough Usher has yet to hit that Million mark and Lloyd is struggling. The Dream had a wicked album and for his first time he did well. Rihanna, Alicia Keys and Keyshia Cole are simply money making machines who are killing the charts… oh did i mention that they are VERY TALENTED WOMEN!

I guess this time around R&B takes the win..

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Oh shit.. i can’t believe The Game really saying this. Homie talkin reckless and letting that tung run loose but i wonder if Jay-Z would respond to something like this. The video above corresponds to the words below:

I’m too disrespectful for Jay-Z, I go to hard. His beef is mediocre beef, it’s more swag and less hardcore. Me, I go in on your grandma, your kids and your girl….it will get ugly and I don’t mind. I have a whole coast to back me. My coast will turn their backs on whoever I beef with. So basically, let me commit suicide because I’m the only cat to commit suicide and resurrect every time. So for Jay to say that about me, that’s cool man because that’s Jay-Z and I’m just lil ol Game. But if you fuck with me I’ll turn to a beast, and ill rip ya head off..bust ya lips…turn the Roc-A-Fella sign, into a pee stain…

I can be a fan of Jay and still rip him limb from limb and still be a fan. After I finish him off, I’m still going to listen to Reasonable Doubt afterwards. I’ll kiss Jay goodbye with his own lips. I’m going to make him mad enough to where he has to say something.

We also got a video of The Game freestyling over the “Aint I” instrumental where he drops Beyonce’s name and says “Fuck Jay-Z” near the end. Its like dude begging Jay-Z to come back at him… its good album promotion so heck why not!

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“I Am King is a statement about all men,” Diddy tells WWD. “We are all descendants of royalty – and if we carry ourselves and respect ourselves in that manner and believe in ourselves, then we are all kings.”

“When a young African-American male or a young Latino male sees this image, they see this elegant sophistication and they see I Am King next to it – it hits their senses and they believe; that’s what motivates me when I’m taking pictures.”

He finishes: “Yeah we definitely do wear jeans that sag off our ass, we definitely like our music loud, but we’re also very intelligent, very smart – you know, as they say about Barack Obama, we’re also very articulate. Yes, we speak well and we can also wear tuxedos. And we also smell good.”

I Am King will be available at Macys in December before rolling out to wider distribution in February. I Am Queen, the women’s fragrance, launches in fall 2009.

SOURCE: DR.JAYS

As Diddy proceeds to get rich… 1VIBE - we the realest kings! Check the rest of the promo pics after the jump…

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Young Jeezy - The Recession (Official Album Tracklist):

1. The Recession (Intro)
2. Welcome Back
3. By The Way
4. Crazy World
5. What They Want
6. Amazin’
7. Hustlaz Ambition
8. Who Dat
9. Don’t You Know
10. Circulate
11. Word Play
12. Vacation
13. Everything f. Anthony Hamilton & Lil Boosie
14. Takin’ It There f. Trey Songz
15. Don’t Do It
16. Put On f. Kanye West
17. Get Allot
18. My President f. Nas

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DOWNLOAD: Mobb Deep- Who The F is This?


And if you got some time.. check after the jump for Prodigy’s latest blog

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