''On the House'' is the debut

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. It was released on August 19, 2012, as a warm up to their second studio album '' Welcome to: Our House'' with a release of August 28, 2012. The mixtape is hosted by

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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. Joe Budden revealed via Twitter that the mixtape is called ''On the House'' and will be hosted by DJ Drama. A promotional video for the mixtape was released on August 6, 2012, and previewed a song called "See Dead People". Rapper Sauce Tha Boss, signed to

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's COB label, claimed via Twitter that the mixtape would drop on Friday, August 10, 2012. This, however, was not the case.

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released the cover art for the mixtape through Twitter on August 7. 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

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. 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

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* "Back the Fuck Up" recycles "Roman in Moscow" by

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* "Who I Am" recycles "Dead Presidents" by

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* "See Dead People" recycles "1,2,3 Grind" by

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(Hook Only) and "Sirius" by

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References

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