Tag Archives: team

‘To have him on our team is only gonna make us better,’ Crooked I says of Royce. By Rob Markman Slaughterhouse’s Royce Da 5’9,” Crooked I and Joe Budden Photo: MTV News NEW YORK — All for one and one for all. Last week, Royce Da 5’9″ hoisted his first gold plaque for his and Eminem ‘s Bad Meets Evil EP Hell: The Sequel, and his Slaughterhouse bandmates couldn’t be happier for the Detroit spitter. “It feels great to actually be accomplishing things,” Royce told MTV News backstage at Rock the Bells. “Five years ago, I was in jail, so this is phenomenal for me, and I feel like it’s starting the machine and it’s starting the Shady Records movement, because this is a good springboard to get the Slaughterhouse project off the ground, and we wanna make being lyrical cool again. We want the kids to look at lyricism and feel like that’s cool.” In January, it was announced that Eminem had signed the quartet — comprised of Royce, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Joe Budden — to his Shady Records label. While the foursome have been working on their Shady debut, Em and Royce revived their Bad Meets Evil group and dropped Hell: The Sequel in June. Now, three months later, the project has moved more than 500,000 copies, making it Royce’s first gold record. For the rest of Slaughterhouse, Nickel Nine’s success provides inspiration. “I was actually there when [Eminem’s manager] Paul [Rosenberg] came in with the plaque, and that’s an ill moment in history, because it’s more than full-circle in my eyes; it’s like full-circle and then some,” Crooked I said. “I proceeded to get drunk off a bottle of Mo