The wait may be almost over for Joe Budden as he signs with Amalgam Digital and waits for the release of Mood Muzik 3: The Album, an albumized mixtape, on February 26th and Padded Room, technically Budden’s sophomore release until this mixtape thing complicated matters, in the second quarter of 2008.

Amalgam Digital has Mood Muzik 3.5, the mixtape version of the mixtape album, for sale as individual tracks but I imagine it’s readily available elsewhere for less.