KXNG Crooked was once told to take shots at Dr. Dre & Eminem.
KXNG Crooked recently sat down with Math Hoffa for a long 1 and half-hour interview on his ‘My Expert Opinion’ series. On the show, the Slaughterhouse member revealed that he was once told to take shots at Eminem and Dr. Dre live on a radio show. He was at the Death Row Records label at that time when the whole Eminem and Ja Rule beef was going on.
“We just talked about me being on Death Row Records and to slide over there and to be able to… Being myself. I always tell artists to do this. It’s a life jewel, really, but for artists, in particular, be yourself,” says KXNG Crooked. “I was on the radio, live with Ja Rule, Irv [Gotti], and Ja played that joint [Loose Change] that he had dissing Em where he said uh some real crazy stuff about Em’s daughter and all that. He premiered it on the radio, and you know, it was lit, he was at it. And the host was like, ‘Yeah, so Crooked, you’re up next. You’re about to send some shots to Dre and Em, you got something for them?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not my beef. I just got over here, you know. I’m trying to make great music. I’m trying to bring that back to the W. That’s my focus, Yo, Dre is the greatest producer ever. Sounds like Em got bars and all that’. The gist of what I was saying was I don’t believe that Suge brought me to Death Row to be a wind-up doll, go after people, and to be a paper soldier. I believe that it was something deeper than that, and I don’t have any problem with these guys. I don’t even know what this whole shit is about, I just got here. What I’m gonna do, just jump in?”
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He continues, “And little did I know… I was at [record store] Fat Beats. I was about to do this mixtape called Young Boss vol. 1, and half of the beats was going to be Chronic 2001 beats, and the other half was going to be DJ Premier beats. So I went to Fat Beats, got The Chronic 2001 instrumental vinyl, and my phone rang. That was Dre. I was off Death Row at the time, and he was like, ‘Yo, I heard you that night when you was on the radio. Me and Em was listening’, or some to that effect. And he was like, ‘Yo, you never took a shot. Every time they try to get you to shoot at me, you never did’. And he said, ‘I respect the f**k out of that. So, you know, you want to get down, holla at me’.”
“I truly believe that that night is one of the reasons why I was able to have a Death Row past and still be able to go over there to Shady and have a future, and it’s all good. It would have been easy for me to say, ‘Hell yeah, f**k them ni**as, let’s go’. That was easy. But I was like, ‘Nah, I’m not gonna do that’. And that’s just what was on my heart.”
Though he’s had a long and illustrious career in rap, many fans forget that KXNG Crooked started out as a Death Row signee; we actually spoke about his time on Suge Knight’s label right here, an era that Crook obviously remembers fondly. Despite his admiration for the storied label, KXNG Crooked wasn’t always on board with their plans for his career. In fact, while representing Tha Row, he recently spoke with Math Hoffa about an awful request he got.
Check out the interview below.
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