Royce Da 5’9
Witness To History Podcast: Method Man & Royce Da 5’9″
The Witness To History: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness returns with its latest episode which features top tier MC’s Method Man and Royce Da 5’9″. Repping Staten Island and Detroit, respectively, these two rappers have created thick chapters for themselves in the book of Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop Wired Director of Content Alvin aqua Blanco held […]
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...
Where’s The Lie?: Royce Da 5’9″ Criticizes 50 Cent For Apologizing To Madonna But Not Lil Kim
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NPR / NPR 50 Cent is always good for a funny troll but one of his peers is calling foul. Royce Da 5’9” has called him out for apologizing to Madonna but not Lil Kim. As spotted on Complex the Fif’s judgement has come into the question in the eyes of the Detroit lyricist. Last week the Queens, New York native swallowed his pride and sent the Queen of Pop an apology for clowning her for a recent risqué photo shoot. “I must have hurt Madonna’s feelings” after she “dug up [an] old MTV TRL photo from ‘03” he said. “OK I’m sorry I did not intend to hurt your feelings, I don’t benefit from this in anyway, I said what I thought when I saw the picture because of where I had seen it before.” Related Stories The rapper turned television mogul lives for th...
Royce 5’9 “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert,” Strick & Young Thug ft. Kid Cudi “Moon Man” & More | Daily Visuals 9.13.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NPR / NPR NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts have become a hit amongst music artists who look to participate in the intimate concert series for the sake of the music culture. Now for the latest installment, Royce 5’9 takes to the mic and celebrates 8 years of sobriety (props!) while churning out some fan favorite cuts. Accompanied by a live band and backup singers for his Tiny Desk (Home) concert, Nickle Nine takes the mic and belts out some of his classic cuts such as “God Speed,” “Dead President Heads” and “Boom.” Wonder why he didn’t break out the rocket launcher we know he has. Elsewhere Strick and Young Thug links up with Kid Cudi for the clip to “Moon Man” where the three go on a wild trip in a motorhome and hit the desert armed with nothing but smoke and pan...
Royce Da 5’9 Calls For DJ Vlad Boycott After Juvenile Interview
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Royce Da 5’9 has previously made his disdain for Hip-Hop’s agent provocateur DJ Vlad known in the past. The Detroit wordsmith once again took aim at Vlad, this after an interview with Juvenile went left after the mention of Young Buck. The New Orleans rapper sat down with DJ Vlad for a recent video which covered his extensive career, his upbringing, and more. However, Juve’s tone shifted drastically when Vlad tried to steer the conversation into when Young Buck was aligned with UTP and Cash Money Records early in his career. Juve immediately shut it down and tried to move on, but Vlad kept pressing the issue. The video of Juvenile’s reaction towards Vlad’s Young Buck question went wide and had folks wondering what exactly was the r...
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Royce da 5’9 Trolls Benzino After Ridiculous Boxing Match Challenge [Video]
Source: Catherine McGann / Getty Benzino is still salty at some folks almost 20 years later after the fact. One individual is hitting him where it hurts. As spotted on Complex the Boston native recently went on Instagram Live with Queenzflip. While the conversation originally spawned out of him calling out the emerging media personality for showing favoritism to certain artists, the talk track then pivoted to Ray’s indelible hate towards Eminem. So much so the Boston native challenged Slim Shady and his long time collaborator Royce da 5’9 to a boxing match. “I will fight any one of these n***as. At 55-and-a-half-years-old. I will step in the ring with any of these n***as,” he revealed. “I feel like I’m in great shape. I would love to step in the ring with Royce or Eminem. And we can d...
Royce da 5’9 Boots ‘The Source’ Co-Founder Dave Mays Out Clubhouse Room Over Eminem Beef
Source: Catherine McGann / Getty It is a well-documented fact that Royce da 5’9 and Eminem are close friends in Hip-Hop and that their connection is more of a brotherhood than anyone on the outside can understand. While hosting a Clubhouse chat, Nickel Nine got into some funk with The Source co-founder Dave Mays regarding Slim Shady which got testy. As Clubhouse becomes one of the hottest spaces online for industry minds to meet and, at times, hash out their varying opinions, fans are uploading the previously privatized chats to social media, especially when veer off into the spicy side. Inside the room featured the likes of Just Blaze, Van Lathan, Punch of TDE, and King Los among others discussing Eminem’s legacy, loosely at that, along with the aforementioned. It appeared that many in th...
Benzino Threatens Joyner Lucas, Gets Into War Of Words With Royce Da 5’9
Source: Prince Williams / Getty In a VERZUZ battle that nobody asked for, Benzino reportedly called out both Joyner Lucas and Royce da 5’9 for reasons we’re not even able to discern on our best days. As it stands, the Boston veteran didn’t get the exact response he wanted and now it’s gotten ugly to the point of threats and low-blow insults. The war of words came to our attention late but from what we’ve been able to follow via social media, Benzino caught a shot from Nickel Nine via Instagram which featured a screencap of a tweet of the initial call out. From Royce’s IG: Y’all owe me for these laughs. I want my flowers for these hysterical outbursts during these trying times… 🌹🌹This muf*ka dun challenged me to a Verzuz battle… 🤦🏿♂️ He ...
Royce Da 5’9 Speaks Truth About Harmless Lil Pump After Struggle Rapper Comes For Eminem
Source: Catherine McGann / Getty Absolutely no one in their right mind thinks Lil Pump is in the same league as Eminem. Nevertheless, the Trump-supporting rapper dissed Slim Shady, and was promptly read for filth by the rapper’s fellow Detroit native and buddy Royce Da 5’9. You may have seen Lil Pump roll with the tired “Rapper X is old” cliche to try to diss the Hip-Hop legend. “F*ck Eminem, you is lame as hell,” said the “Gucci Gang” struggle rapper. “Ain’t nobody listening to your old ass. You is lame as f*ck bitch.” Sound like he’s still made from when Em hurled a jab his way back in 2018 on “The Ringer.” Afterwards, Royce took to his IG to issue a statement on the matter. “I’ll slap them glasses so far off his face, they’ll land in a whole nother genre…” wrote Nickel Nine. “Not cuz I’...
Checking Coonchi: Royce Da 5’9 Reacts To Lil Wayne Endorsing Trump
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Wayne joined a growing list of Black entertainers who have lined up to be down with MAGA and flat out endorsing President Donald Trump. However, in this case, it appears that Lil Tunechi is actually Team Trump and Royce Da 5’9 could hardly believe it. Taking to Instagram, the Detroit wordsmith and podcast host shared his thoughts on Weezy F. Baby’s endorsement of the former business mogul and reality television star. “This ain’t the Iconic Genius that said. {And I Quote} “Bitch, real G’z move in silence like lasagna”…. Nope I rebuke you, Satan…Stay away from our [GOATS] .. And Wayne would’ve NEVER worn a shirt to the White House…,” read Nickel Nine’s Instagram caption of the photo of Wayne and Trump grinning side by side. In case anyone was wondering, Li...
