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Joe Budden Podcast Journey: From Slaughterhouse Breakup to Hip-Hop Media Empire |   🎧 The Unfiltered Voice: Joe Budden's Pivot from Lyricist to Media Titan Joe Budden’s career trajectory is one of the most compelling narratives in modern hip-hop. Starting as a celebrated lyricist with a platinum hit, he later became one-fourth of the lyrical supergroup Slaughterhouse. Yet, it was the seeming end of his traditional music career—and the eventual dissolution of the group—that paved the way for a second act far more impactful: The Joe Budden Podcast. This extensive article chronicles the definitive journey of Joe Budden from a respected, yet often commercially frustrated, rapper to the undisputed king of independent hip-hop media. 💥 The Rapper’s Frustration: Why Slaughterhouse Became a Stepping Stone For a generation of rap purists, Slaughterhouse (comprising Joe Budden, Royce Da 5’9”, Joell Ortiz, and Kxng Crooked) was the ultimate dream team, a collective built on lyric...

As Hip hop supergroups continue to excite Hip-Hop fans, it is hard to forget the importance of Slaughterhouse and its short-lived impact in the hip hop fraternity. A decade ago, the collective of some lyrical geniuses Royce 5’9, Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, and Kxng Crooked was at work on their sophomore album and first on Shady Records, welcome to: Our House and corresponding mixtape On The House. Released in the summer of 2012, that album, executive produced by Shady records boss himself Eminem, would top the charts to reach no 2.. It was a very momentous affair for four top-tier lyricists who had been deemed industry outcasts at past points in their careers.  In the later 2010s, as Slaughterhouse began work on a third album, the crew disbanded. Joe Budden went solo and pivoted his career to a full-time media personality, whose views and opinions eventually clashed with fellow industry folks such as Eminem. Amid a Grammy-nominated solo album run, Royce put together anothe...