Icewear Vezzo reacts to Royce Da 5’9″ comments about Detroit Rapper’s attitude towards Eminem.
Earlier this month, Royce Da 5’9″ sat down with The Hip Hop Lab for an interview with Lando Bando where he talked about several topics. The host also asked him about the misunderstanding between the young Detroit rappers and Eminem.
“I think the young rappers are just regurgitating anecdotical s**t. I don’t think they understand how much they don’t make sense,” said Royce. “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.”
He continues, “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.”
Now Lando Bando sat down with Icewear Vezzo, one of the current trending rappers from Detroit, and asked about his opinion on Royce’s recent statement. “I never met Eminem. I don’t know what that ni**a look like. I never heard from him,” he said. “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.”
He continues, “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 me. 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.”
According to Icewear Vezzo, one of the pioneers of modern Detroit rap, the renowned rapper no longer has a connection to the ghetto as he once did. Instead, the current crop of Detroit rappers has a stronger connection to the underground rap culture than most people realise. “People like me and other rappers like Tee Grizzley, Peezy, Babyface Ray and Snap Dogg grew up on Chedda Boyz, Street Lord’z, Blade Icewood, Rock Bottom, the Lost Boys, the real underground gangster rappers in Detroit. If it wasn’t for them, I literally wouldn’t be rapping,” he tells HipHopDX. “Those guys were rapping about shit, and you were able to see them in the hood passing money out, or giving back.”
“We’d see them in our hood pulling up in cars they actually rapped about, being at clubs that they were actually at, wearing jewelry that we actually saw. Like, for us it was like Eminem was out of touch, so he wasn’t anybody we could actually relate to.”“I can honestly speak for other rappers like Tee Grizzley, Peezy, Babyface Ray, Snap Dogg and they would all say the exact same thing,” The Drankgod says confidently but without a hint of disrespect.
Watch the whole interview below.
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