News From The Halfway House.

(Image courtesy of Nah Right)

The homeboy Sammy hit me off with some news on Halfway House, Joe Budden’s appetizer to next year’s long-awaited Padded Room. It’s due out on October 28th — I’m used to saying “in stores” when albums are due out, but this one is only being released digitally through Amalgam Digital. Along with the first single “Touch & Go”, the album will feature a track called “Slaughter House” featuring Nino Bless and “three of the hardest-hitting lyricists out now” (again, Sammy’s words, not mine).

“Slaughter House” should be leaking soon, but, in the mean time, here’s the excellent “Times Are Hard” from earlier this year — an example of what Nino and Joey can do together.

Download: Nino Bless – “Times Are Hard” featuring Joe Budden

This was off Nino’s mixtape, Untold Scriptures (download it here), which also features Kool G Rap, Joell Ortiz, Styles P, Saigon, Crooked I and Grafh. Untold Scriptures, Vol. 2 should be ready by the end of the year as well.