imo, i think joe budden did not blow up.
all because he was a conflict of interest artist.
signed to replace jayz leaving with lyor cohen.
until, jay was offered the ceo position and other amenities to stay at defjam.
which made it so jay did not bail with lyor.
imo, once jay stayed.
budden was a conflict of business interest signee for jay and the payola fund was stopped.
to fund joe budden to the top.
as before when jay was headed out the door with lyor.
joe budden was the beneficiary of an incredible sizeable push to be a superstar jayz replacement biter style artist.
i also believe joe budden's content and skillbase on his mixtape run with dj clue.
was purposefully made to bite jayz directionwise. as clue would have had insider trading.
to know to make or groom an artist to fill the void.
as a replacement at defjam when jayz left.
i also,..believe juelz santana's original debut lp sales and impact.
also suffered from this insider administrative changing of the guard of lyor to jayz, as well.
as juelz was administratively moved to being handled by la reid.
which is why juelz's second album achieved success.
with more buzz and a higher effective self paid for grassroots pr run.
plus a hefty return to reid point wise.
to justify the move to la's portion of the defjam umbrella as well
imo,..joe budden should have also tried to position himself with reid in this time as well.
instead of challenging the machine in a grassroots manner.
where it was obvious once jayz was in a position of power. joe budden was in jayz's sights.
to be remedied and marginalized into and branded a non-draw.
after receiving a significant push that could be traced back to a spreadsheet and not producing a return.
which gave the label cause by simple spreadsheet to shelve joe budden's second album in limbo.
till he could create a substanial grassroots buzz. on par to his skirmish with jay and other battles he had previously. as his grassroots battle campaign significantly worked against him administratively as well.
with the sales spike era all being a lie. built off payola and label bought lp's via outsourcing marketing firms. joe budden just never produced and never knew what to do effectively. with his own publishing dollars rolled into his own self-funded marketing campaigns to be effective in a grassroots manner. to ever succeed, as a grassroots draw in a world of well executed payola, in the sales spike era.
plus, joe budden's efforts unbeknownest to him, pigeon holed his draw.
by his own failed grassroots campaigns like zack ryder in wwe.
so his grassroots campaign made him appear as a lower tier draw and he became what he really was not. as joe budden is really a pop rnb collab type rapper. who should have been at the very least.
a double platinum artist with the right payola in the sales spike era.
the rest is history,.......
art barr
. Plus I think dude just is one of those self sabotaging types.
@ Obarth... no kidding, "Roll Your Backyard" might be the worst song title ever in life.
)... but it died out after that. I actually believe that the joint with 112 woulda been a good place to go for the next single, but there was some label mix-up shyt that caused "Fire" to be the follow-up, and that joint was 
forgot all about this