With the recent release of his latest album, Rage & The Machine, veteran rap-star Joe Budden's been sitting cozily at the highest of iTunes' Hip-hop charts. Meanwhile, the Slaughterhouse MC just dropped the music video to the album's third single, “I Gotta Ask”, earlier this morning.
In regard to the album, Budden told Ambrosia For Heads that Rage presents his “first album where it''s not very introspective. It's not so told from a personal point of view. It's not so autobiographical. This one, we really stuck to Hip-hop and our passion for it, and that New York sound—heavy samples, hard drums, just a lot that that has kinda been absent, or it's not just as promoted as some other music.”
“I Gotta Ask” befits Budden's latter description perfectly, and is already considered setting itself apart as the exact sound the veteran artist set out to accomplish. The visuals further enhance this through depicting a day-in-the-life sequence as a critically-acclaimed veteran Hip-hop artist, topped off with his razor-sharp rhymes flying through the microphone, of course.
With the album debuting at top ten overall and holding the iTunes rap chart at #1, as well as the release of “I Gotta Ask”, Budden expressed “I'm overwhelmed with the love the project has received. I've never had more fun creating a project than I did with Rage & The Machine.”
Check out Budden's latest music video below.
By Jods Arboleda for RAPStation.com
