Finally, Nardwuar landed his J. Cole interview. The interview with Dreamville head honcho has been at least a couple years in the making.
In almost 1 hour long interview, J. Cole briefly talked about getting inspired by Canibus, Eminem, Royce 5’9″ and Big L.
“Canibus was huge inspiration on my teenage years of rapping. Just ferocious, barred up, lyrical, punch lines, any cypher, any gathering of three or more people that wanted to rap, destroying it. That was my whole mo, my forte and Canibus was big part of that. Eminem was big part of that. Royce 5’9″ as big part of that, Big L was big part of that.” – said Cole.
At one point during the interview (After 43 minutes), J. Cole confirmed that he told Dr. Dre about Kendrick Lamar: “Who told you that? Who gave you that piece of information? The answer is yes, I did. I’m not gonna say I was the first to tell him but when Dre was working on Detox album, yes, I was like ‘you gotta sign this kid from Compton. Shout out to Dr. Dre, he made right decision.”
One of Detroit’s finest Big Sean joins NORE and DJ EFN on the latest episode of Drink Champs for more than 3 hours interview. At some points of the interview, Sean Don talked about Eminem and Royce Da 5’9.” You can check the conversations below:
NORE: Because you love your city so much, I just want you to say one thing about this one person that we bring up.
Big Sean: Alright.
NORE: Eminem?
Big Sean: God emcee.
NORE: Big Proof?
Big Sean: Legendary. Legendary. I feel like he inspired Em a lot. He was really the one who brought D12 together. He was a backbone of that. He was cold lyrically.
NORE: Royce Da 5’9″
Big Sean: Rap god, just like Eminem.
Later in the interview, NORE tells Big Sean to do a Quick Time of Slime and asks some comparison questions. If he picks both or none, he drinks, if he picks one of them, then other people in the room drink. Of course, one of the questions was, Eminem or Royce 5’9.” On which Big Sean responded with:
“Royce Da 5’9″ is literal big brother so I gotta go with Royce. Eminem is, like I said, god emcee and it was dream come true to work with him but I’ve been in real trenches with Royce.”
You can watch the both part of the interview below:
This week, Icewear Vezzo set down with Lando Bando and responded to Royce, agreeing Royce that Eminem is not obliged to do anything but if he was in Em’s shoe, you would act differently.
Yesterday, Royce responded back with an Instagram video, saying: “I don’t want none of this stuff to overshadow the way I feel about Vezzo, Young Veeze, Payroll, Peezy, Sada. I can just keep naming people. I’m extremely proud of you all. And I understand exactly how you feel. We don’t disagree on anything. I understand how you feel. I felt the same way when I was in your position. Maybe I said too much when I did my interview.” – said Royce
“Let me just say this: Feel how you feel. I’m not here to change, your feelings, validate your feelings. My job as an OG, is just, when you feel like to do something that can be done to rectify it or gets you to a better place, let me know, I’m here. In a meantime, I support all of you. A hundred percent. Keep doing your thing. I’m proud of you all. Alright? love and respect!” Royce added.
You can watch the video below (slide right to watch the full clip):
“I never met Eminem. I don’t know what that ni**a look like. I never heard from him. I don’t know anyone who ever met him other than Big Sean and Royce. I don’t know anybody that he ever reached out to show any type of love to. This is what people gotta understand: For me, I don’t expect a ni**a to do nothing. I mean, he ain’t obligated to do nothing. We ain’t investing in that ni**a. We ain’t the reason he’s rich. You ain’t put that ni**a. He ain’t gotta do s**t. I f**k with Royce. Royce my big brother. I got love for Royce but I gotta disagree with him. He basically said that for ni**a to show love, you gotta be his favorite rapper. That’s what he said. Why would Eminem reach out and do s**t when we say our top five rappers from the city and we don’t mention him. So he gotta be one of our favorite rappers to show some type of love? I don’t think that makes sense. Because why would a ni**a lie? You want us to represent Detroit properly right? We don’t need no ni**as that’s capping. Ni**as should be able to be themselves. If a ni**a gonna show love do that because that’s what you feel like you need to do. For me personally, I would feel like I’m supposed to do that because this is my city. The city I represent. It would be only right from me to reach back out and tap in with young ni**as. I’ve done songs with almost every ni**a in Detroit and I ain’t as big as Eminem. And you think them ni**as told me I was their favorite rapper? F**k no.”
“I was not listening to Lose Yourself and this type of songs. I love my mama. I was not beefing with my mama. I don’t wanna kill my mama. My mama raised my. My mama’s black queen. She taught me what it is to be a man. She showed me how to treat other black women. How to treat women in general. I can’t relate to disliking my mother and I’m not saying Eminem is wrong for that. I just say I can’t relate to that. I was listening to the ni**as I could relate to. And no I don’t think Em owns us anything. He is not obligated to do anything. That’s his money. That’s his career. That ni**a’s a legend. One of the best lyricist of all time. Because we don’t listen to him, it don’t take away from his talent. That ni**as from Detroit. You can’t take that from him. He is really from this b**ch. He struggled in this motherf**ker. We ain’t taking away anything from him. He’s an amazing lyricist but he did not motivate us bro.”
“What Royce said, that literally means ‘in order for me to show you love, I need to be in your top five on interviews, f**k what you feel. And you if don’t, I can’t show you any type of love.’ I think Royce was mad at Em before. They had problems. They might have been for exact same reason as we are. So, I don’t think it’s fair from Royce to be in good spot with Em and not allow us to express our feelings. Because he’s in a good spot with him. You know me and every other ni**a that’s turnt right now, you know how many young ni**as we done motivated just DMing them? Like ‘hey bro I see you. Keep grinding. Keep shining. This could have been a ni**a that was about to give up. Thin ni**a was about to quit. He thought he could not rap. He thought nobody was listening to him. We was gonna get back to the streets, robbing and selling dope and popping ni**as. He was gonna do that but the ni**a that he admired told him don’t do that and you are doing the right thing. That’s all it took. So doing stuff for us does not mean physically. It just means motivating ni**as who need the motivation and might need a little push. Who other better to do it than a ni**a that’s statue, an icon?” – said Icewear Vezzo.
Couple of days ago, Royce Da 5′9″ took to Instagram to question why 50 Cent publicly apologized to Pop icon Madonna for making fan about her latest photshoot but did not do the same for Hip Hop legend Lil Kim.
In the video shared on social media, Royce sends message to Fifty: “I have some stuff on my mind I want to get off. I was thinking about the effect hip-hop has had on the world and how we pretty much took over the world. So I got two messages. First message is to my brother 50 Cent, who is one of our kings. If I am a young person coming from another genre or come from another walk of life and I am following the way things are right now, I would think that Madonna is worthy of an apology, but Lil Kim is not. That ain’t the message we want to send, is it? Nah, that is not the message we want to send.”
Then Royce sends second message to Lupe Fiasco: “I know that you and Virgil were real tight. RIP to the brother Virgil. I know me and Lupe had some rap disagreements recently but I just wanna say no rap disagreement should ever supersede our mental well-being and brotherhood. And when I say brotherhood, I don’t mean friendship. That’s not the same. Friendship is not necessary, brotherhood is. So, I just want you to know Lu, that my well wishes and my thoughts are with you in your time of grief and if you need anything on this side, you know the number. Love and respect to you all. Peace.”
Nickel shared the video with the caption: “A message to 2 of our GOATS, Respectfully… 50 Cent and Lupe Fiasco. R.I.P. The Great Virgil Abloh.”
Under the post, producer Symbolyc One commented: “This is why I love you bro.”
Royce 5’9″ has recently set down with Lando Bando on TheHipHop Lab where the two discussed many things, including Eminem’s cameo in 50 Cent’s “Black Mafia Family” TV show.
“I love the BMF series. I didn’t go into it expecting anything in particular cause I never knew anything about Meech anyway or the vague stories that I heard in the past. That’s not my generation so all of that s**t is interesting to me. The best part about the series to me is little Meech. He’s doing magnificent job.”
“That Em episode. That’s funny. Man, that s**t went by so fast. I wonder why he didn’t play bigger part. They could have figured out a way to work with White Boy Rick into there. I didn’t know Eminem is going to be in that one. Maybe Meech and White Boy Rick encounter was just brief. I don’t know. I thought he was gonna bump him into prison or some s**t but it’s dope though.” says Royce.
You can watch the interview and Eminem’s cameo after the jump below:
Royce Da 5’9″ has recently set down with Lando Bando on The Hip Hop Lab where the Detroit legend had a long conversation about why young Detroit rappers misunderstand Eminem.
“I think the youngins are just regurgitating anecdotical s**t. I don’t think they understand how much they don’t make sense. It’s like, you go and do an interview, you say your top five is Juan, Blade, Herc, Malik and Jesse. ‘What about Eminem? Oh, no, no, no, no. I didn’t really grow up listening to that but I think he is a great lyricist tho.’ I can respect that answer. So…8 Mile, that was not an accurate depiction of Detroit ni**a? Ain’t nobody be on 8 Mile…’I like Royce, Slum Village but they ain’t real Detroit sound.’ I could even take that. Now you are in a position where you can go out and paint the picture of Detroit however you think the world should see Detroit. The fact that you benefited from years and years of groundwork that myself, Marshall, Sean… There are ni**as who are benefiting from things that you don’t even realize. Maybe they will realize in retrospect.”
“Now that you have arrived in this place and Detroit is more visible in terms of the world viewership, just connected to the rest of the world. We used to be like a sea market. Me, Marshall, Slum Village, we were representing sea market. That’s were the no-fly-zone came from. People used to just come here, shoot through real quick, grab a bag and keep it pushing. Trick Trick said ‘no no no no, no more!’ He ruined his relationships, he put his livelihood on the line to stand on the frontline of the city. Nobody gotta say thank you for it or nothing like that. These are just facts. All of these are documented. So, now, you guys got how you all wanted. You are cool. The world loves you all. The world is biting your style. You rap like Detroit, you sound like Detroit, you look like Detroit. What exactly do you want Eminem to do? Do you want to sign to Shady Records? Everybody wanna sign Icewear Vezzo right now. Everybody wanna sign Peasy. Do you see them sign to Shady Records? I think the reason Shady Records is so successful is because they know who they are.”
“They have been publicly condemning Marshall in an attempt to separate themselves from being associated with his name because they think that’s the cool thing to do. It’s not cool thing because ‘Eminem doesn’t f**k with ni**as,’ it’s considered cool thing because ni**as have found a comfort zone in complaining about things. I wonder if they know how crazy they sound. They are making demands based off of an assumption that you have that this person does not f**k with you. They have nothing, no actions, no previous that they can correlate any of this feelings to. They are like ‘WHY HE DON’T EMBRACE ME.’ It speaks to your ignorance and immaturity and how reasonable that you even are willing to be to demand that he pull up. Pull up WHERE, NI**A? FOR WHAT? WHAT ARE WE PULLING UP FOR? Bro, you are talking about grown a** man. Put a daughter to a college. He has been famous for 20 years. The man has not hang out in a nightclub for more than 10 years. The man has not took a drink, thought about drug in over 10 years. He is not same young, wild, out here having fun Eminem that he was when G-unit was running around.”
“Have you seen Eminem on tour? He is just who he is. When he was out and was moving around a certain way, he conducted his business in a way that was indicative of what he was doing at that time. It’s no different from now. He is conducting his business but it’s indicative who he is now and where they are as a brand. Who they sign is none of you ni**as f**king business. Why the f**k do you care if Shady Records sign Griselda? And you don’t want to give him credit just because it’s not the kind of music that you are not into? So we are looking at bunch of crybaby ni**as complaining and yelling about perceived problem not coming with any solutions.”
“Nobody blew the whistle about Marshall getting on that f**king 95 minutes song with all these f**king rappers he didn’t know. He did that because I called him and talked him into it. And it took me a long time to talk him into it. Thank God he adores Sean, he loves Sean. He did not like the beat. You don’t understand how it feels to have a beat that you don’t like that you gotta write the song to. And you gotta represent yourself in somebody else’s world that you don’t even understand. And they don’t understand yours but you are forcing it because you wanna try to make people feel better. Em been damn near on every album Sean got and they shot videos.”
“My first impression at Sada Baby was he creatively fearless. I gotta respect that before anything. That ni**a entertained me before I even understand what he was saying. And I’m not sure that I’m an executive that’s gonna take to the next level. I was sitting there when Dr. Dre played My Name Is sample to Eminem and Marshall said ‘Hi, my name is…’ and Dre was like ‘WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? YOU GOTTA DO THAT’ and he picked a piece of the record that had been sampled over and over again on classic records in hip-hop history but this was way at the end of the song where not other producer would thought to even pull from and that’s where the My Name Is came from. And My Name Is is the reason why Marshall is the Marshall he is today. Without Dr. Dre to have that divine instinct to be able to figure out which record takes you to the next level…without that.. you know what I mean?!… Dre did it over and over again. He did it for Game, he did it for Fifty, for Marshall, he did it for Snoop. Four times he changed the world. He did it with NWA, he did it with himself, he did it with D.L.C. So, Sada Baby, Tee Grizzley, they don’t need Eminem. Who knows what Sada Baby needs? Who knows if he needs anything? That’s up to hi to find that you and figure it out during his journeys. It’s up to us as OGs help facilitate that and do anything we can to water the seed.” – said Nickel
Then Royce continues talking about Kanye West saying signing Big Sean was the worst decision he has ever made, Donda album, Drake and more. You can watch the full thing below:
On this day, exactly 19 years ago, in November 26, 2002, Royce Da 5’9″ dropped his major debut album “Rock City (Version 2.0)” featuring guest appearances from Eminem, Pusha T, Pharrell, Twista, DJ Premier and more. The album is an updated version of “Rock City” which Royce released independently at the end of 2001.
First week sales for the album is unknown but “Rock City” reached No. 7 on US Billboard Independent Albums chart and No. 29 on US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Royce’s first ever solo effort received generally positive reviews from critics, praising Royce’s lyrical delivery.
The first single of the album “Boom” reached No. 48 on US Billboard Hot Rap Songs charts. The disk also has a Side B song, titled “Soldier’s Story.” “Boom” was later sampled on the track “Crash”, performed by Schoolboy Q in 2019.
The second single “You Can’t Touch Me,” which also has Side B with a song titled “D-Elite”, reached No. 66 on US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.
The third and final single is the album title track “Rock City,” featuring Eminem’s vocals on the chorus and scratches. The song charted at No. 99 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Track chart. Music video of the song features cameo from Big Proof.
Page Kennedy drops lyrically star-studded track “The Gran Finale 2021,” featuring The Game, Royce Da 5’9″, Ransom, Locksmith, KXNG Crooked, Grafh, 3D Natee and Mysonne from Straight Bars IV mixtape.
“AYE ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! I decided to give hip hop a gift. This is the greatest 10 min of lyrical assault you will ever heard maybe ever in your life. Enjoy.” said Detroit rapper on his social media accounts.
In the song, The Game mentions Eminem and Dr. Dre in the following lines: “You know who the king of Cali, 20 years vet, in my ally, Dr. Dre bread a problem child, Glock and my aftermath letterman, Ask Busta, ask Em, he’ll kill you where you stand before he lets you pass him.”
“Darkness” single from Music To Be Murdered By album has become the latest song from Eminem’s catalog to reach 100 million streams.
After “Godzilla,” ft. Juice WRLD, “Those Kinda Nights,” ft. Ed Sheeran and “You Gon’ Learn,” ft. Royce Da 5’9″ and White Gold, “Darkness” becomes fourth track from the album to surpass 100 million mark.
“You Gon’ Learn” and “Darkness” are both produced by Royce 5’9″ and reaching this milestone made the Detroit legend celebrate the achievement on Instagram.
“Thank you my dear, brother Eminem. Trusting in my ability as a producer without a placement yet… These are my first two placements … If only people knew how many quiet wins there were…” said Royce.
On the post, Joyner Lucas commented: “I take back all the s**t I used to talk about your production my brother. 🤣 Lemme get a beat.”
This week, RJ Payne came through with a new track titled “Hells Fury” featuring heavy lyricists including our boy Royce Da 5’9″, Papoose, Rah Digga, and Cory Gunz with DJ Kay Slay behind the keyboards.
The latest from RJ Payne comes just a few short months after he released Leatherface 3, his second project of the year following Beautiful Payne 3.
Some of the quotable lyrics from the song are: “Talk about the new Scarface, I go Brad Jordan on ’em, before corona / I put a hole in your son, that boy gon’ need an organ donor / Smokin’ on your disrespect, dead packs, stank weed / Catch me doin’ the Drink Champs, make all you n***as drink pee / To withstand the fentanyl, the bricks tan, the pink keys / I did it all with quicksand, may change you n***as sink fees.” raps our boy Royce!
IDK has just released the deluxe edition of his USEE4YOURSELF, which includes an extended version of the song titled “Dogs Don’t Lie,” featuring Royce Da 5’9″, produced by Kurtis McKenzie, DJ Dahi, Blue Rondo and IDK himself.
In the song, London-born rapper shouts out Eminem with the following lines: “My wit come from Ye, my swagger a little Jay / My humor from Eminem, this beat like Just Blaze / Get b**ches like I’m Pharrell, am I lying? No, I’m for real.”
Royce also mentions lots of huge names in his verse: “If your blueprint ain’t come from Hov, then you should copy LeBron’s / If you losin’ yourself for gold, then that’s what got you to bronze
Muhammad Ali, Haile Selassie, Gaddafi, Saddam / The Black man is God, not a godd**n mafia don / If you ever meet B.I.G. in Heaven, ni**a, tell him I’m dope.”
