Royce da 5’9″ talks about his new album on Real 92.3 BigBoy TV.
The new Royce Da 5’9″ album ‘The Allegory‘ is out now and he continues the promo run for it. After his interview on Power 106 LA, he made a visit to BigBoyTv on Real 92.3 for an interview with Big Boy. On the show, he talks about his new album, where he ranks it in his catalog, declining a deal of over $1 million from Tommy Boy Records to work with Dr. Dre and Eminem (at 6:30), his kids, being sober, working with Crooked I, the other features on the new album and much more.
The Allegory is the follow-up to Royce’s “Book of Ryan“. On The Allegory, Royce takes aim at those oppressors with a series of interludes that establish how each song fits into the album’s larger message. Each comedy and accompanying song demonstrates the power of knowledge or the perils of ignorance. This strategy works best on songs like the label-hating, phony-exposing “Tricked,” which comes after Eminem’s “Perspective” interlude about white artists being recognized over their black originators, and the incredibly tough Conway the Machine-assisted “FUBU,” which comes just before a white man’s racist rant on “A Black Man’s Favorite Shoe.”
Big Boy also asked (at 22:22), “When Eminem call you and tell you that he’s working on an album, do you write different?” to which Royce replies, “he never calls me and tell me when he’s working on an album“. Big Boy then questions, “how do you know if you got songs when you know music to murder by do you just pop up and it’s like hey I don’t want to tell you.” to which Royce said, “he doesn’t he’s a sneaky bastard, everything with Marshall is on a need-to-know basis, he does not he’s very I think he may be superstitious I don’t know but he never tells he never says I’m about to start an album, he never does that, he just goes in and ‘I’m like you’re doing another one what’s going on you just did one’. A lot of times he likes the element of surprise when he’s playing for other MCs, he likes the element of surprise”
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They also asked him if he ever criticizes Eminem for any song he recorded or something. Then Royce said, “It depends of what the situation is if he’s playing it for me because I did the beat, he made some changes to it and he wants to know what I think, then I may judge it based off of that if it’s his song and he’s playing it for me and he just wants to know what I think then that’s different because how I feel and how I would’ve did it has nothing to do with anything you know I mean so I don’t have to share that but I can let him know if I just dislike it and I tell him that. I’ve never had that situation.”
Watch the full interview below.
