Royce Da 5’9″ teases more music with Black Thought.
Royce Da 5’9″ was the latest guest on Ebro Darden’s “Rap Life Radio” show on Apple Music 1 as part of the promo run for his latest greatest hits compilation “The Heaven Experience, Vol. 1”. The project arrived with some new music, including a Black Thought collaboration “Right Hand Man”.
Speaking to Ebro Darden, Royce revealed that the duo got more unreleased stuff, and they were working on a project at one point. “We go in [Studio] all the time,” he said. “We got way more unreleased stuff than we have stuff that’s actually out there. But we were actually working on an album together at one point…But I mean, it’s going to take a minute to finish something like that.”
The rapper then reveals why the project never came together. “Tariq is real busy. It’ll be times where he’s sending me a verse every week, and then it’ll be times where I don’t get nothing from him for six months.”
On the show, Royce also explained why he decided to do a greatest hits project. “Re-ownership of the masters. And I think that’s very important. It’s the start of a conversation, the right conversation,” he said. “Encouraging artists to look at each song on every project that you do like an asset, like all your intellectual property, look at it like an asset. Because once it’s on the streaming platforms, it’ll just exist, and just look at it like a stream of revenue.”
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He continued, “So, a project like this, that’s why I didn’t want to call it a compilation. I don’t want it to be anecdotal. I don’t want it to sound like a talking point. Everybody’s doing a compilation, or this, or that. This right here, this is just like the lunatics being freed from the asylum.”
Meanwhile, Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg, has disclosed that he helped write the hook for Royce Da 5’9’s 2002 song “Rock City.”
The news was revealed during a conversation between Paul and Royce for the former’s new Curtain Call 2 podcast, which debuted to coincide with the release of Eminem’s new greatest hits album. “They weren’t trying to clear [Eminem] for anything back then,” Rosenberg told Royce. “Jimmy Iovine’s saying back then was: ‘You keep doing the magic trick, you’re going to shake all the magic out of the wand. Quit shaking the wand around every place else, we need it for ourselves. A wand only has so much magic.’”
Check out his interview below.
