On the House (album) explained

On the House
Type:Mixtape
Artist:Slaughterhouse
Cover:OnTheHouse.jpg
Released:August 19, 2012
Recorded:2012
Genre:Hip hop
Length:72:44
Label:Shady
Prev Title:Slaughterhouse EP
Prev Year:2011
Next Year:2012

On the House is the debut mixtape by hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse. It was released on August 19, 2012, as a warm up to their second studio album with a release of August 28, 2012. The mixtape is hosted by DJ Drama.

Background

On July 7, 2012, Royce announced in an interview with Jenny Boom Boom that the group would release a pre-album mixtape around the first week of August.[1] Joe Budden revealed via Twitter that the mixtape is called On the House and will be hosted by DJ Drama.[2] A promotional video for the mixtape was released on August 6, 2012, and previewed a song called "See Dead People".[3] Rapper Sauce Tha Boss, signed to Crooked I's COB label, claimed via Twitter that the mixtape would drop on Friday, August 10, 2012. This, however, was not the case.[4] Royce Da 5'9" released the cover art for the mixtape through Twitter on August 7.[5] Amazon.com posted the album preview of Welcome to: OUR HOUSE with individual snippets of all the songs. The rumored track tentatively titled "All I Want" featuring Eminem which many thought would be on the DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz On The House mixtape is actually titled "Our House" and will be featured as the first song on the Welcome to: OUR HOUSE album. On August 16, Joe Budden released the song titled "Truth or Truth" through Twitter. On August 18, Thisis50.com released the official track list as seen below and, according to Joe Budden's Twitter account, there will be a sequel to the mixtape track titled "Truth or Truth Pt1" as being Part 2. Royce Da 5'9" confirmed On The House was to be released on August 19, 2012, at 12 pm noon EST via Twitter. However, the song "Coming Home" featuring a sample of soft pop hook was produced by Arxym Jai (Jai Dave) in the last minutes of the mixtape which resulted in a delay of an hour.

Track listing

Recycled beats credits

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jenny Boom Boom Interviews Slaughterhouse @ BET Awards 12. Jenny Boom Boom . 2012-07-07.
  2. Web site: Twitter / JoeBudden: Real shit tho, the verses on . Twitter.com . 2012-08-21.
  3. Web site: Slaughterhouse Officially Announces Mixtape . The B.O.S.S. Board . 2012-08-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131104073110/http://www.thebossboard.com/article.php?newid=1189 . 2013-11-04 . dead .
  4. Web site: Twitter / SauceThaBoss: Slaughterhouse "On The House" . Twitter.com . 2012-08-21.
  5. Web site: Twitter / Royceda59: RT @Dramalikethedj . Twitter.com . 2012-08-21.