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Joe Budden & Royce Da 5’9 Address Slaughterhouse Beef

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John Ricard / Getty Slaughterhouse, the rhyming quartet consisting of some of the brightest lyricists of their era, enjoyed the limelight under what was later viewed as a troubled major label deal under Eminem‘s Shady Records. Two of its members, Joell Ortiz and KXNG Crooked, recently released The Rise and Fall of Slaughterhouse, causing division between the group and some bitter feelings to boot. During episode 517 of The Joe Budden Podcast, Royce Da 5’9 visited the program to continue the conversation regarding group tensions, which exploded in grand fashion during an Instagram Live session featuring Ortiz. Nickel Nine, like Budden, took umbrage with the fact that Crooked I and Quick (Ortiz) decided to go their own way and air out grievances on wax. “I’...

Slaughterhouse Turmoil: Joe Budden & Joell Ortiz Have Heated Exchange

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty We’d like to begin this post by respectfully stating the obvious that during their reign, Slaughterhouse was comprised of four of the best MCs of their lane at the time. These days, the talented quartet are now at odds and a recent IG Live session with Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, and Royce Da 5’9 went extremely left for reasons we’ll explain below. For those unaware, the aforementioned Ortiz and KXNG CROOKED (AKA Crooked I) are currently on track to release the joint album The Rise & Fall Of Slaughterhouse next week and dropped off a pair of singles that sparked a fair bit of discussion among fans. CROOKED explained via a tweet that he was ready to move on from Slaughterhouse after being largely inactive for a decade. For context, Th...