Royce da 5’9″ talks about Dr. Dre’s advice on Finance.
Royce da 5’9″ who released his new album ‘The Allegory‘ last week, continues the promo run as he sat down with HipHopDx for a new interview session where he revealed the Advice Dr. Dre Gave him and Eminem, was given to Kendrick Lamar and as well.
Royce da 5’9″ revealed the most powerful and resonant financial advice he ever heard from Dr. Dre in a recent interview. To establish the mood, Royce reminisced about his first trip to California, when Dre invited him to work in 2001, which also happened to be Royce’s first time inside a mansion.
HipHopDX asked Royce about the recording sessions in Dr. Dre studio to which he replied, “Well there was a door that we went to I believe we went down some stairs to get in the studio room, and it was just like a studio in a building like rather it would have been in the house or in the building it looked like we were a huge studio in the building but SSL Board a big SSL board and after we had can’t be coming back and recording there a couple of days he actually showed us the house.”
Royce da 5’9″ continued, “So we went through another door and went up some stairs and then and now we’re in his kitchen and that was my first time being in the mansion. We looking around he’s showing us different rooms and then we think that’s the whole house and then it’s like alright now come down here and then we go down another long hallway now we’re on a whole another side and it’s like now he’s showing us more rooms in the whole time I just remember him going, ‘now remember, money is easy to make but it’s hard to keep‘, let me show you this room over here we got this bit but don’t forget ‘money is easy to make but it’s hard to keep’.”
“He just kept saying it over and over again, and he ain’t never lie. That sh*t is easy to make, but goddamn it is hard to keep. That’s why I hate seeing these younguns spend all they money, man.”
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The Slaughterhouse MC reminisced about recording in Dre’s studio during the Chronic 2001 period and getting a tour of Dre’s opulent mansion while relaxing at DX headquarters in Hollywood.
“The whole time, I just remember him going, ‘Now remember, money is easy to make, but it’s hard to keep. Let me show you this room … but don’t forget, money is easy to make but it’s hard to keep,’” Royce said. “Then we was sitting down … and Em is like finally comfortable.”
Then HipHopDx again said, “So the line from ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ that Kendrick used What Dre saying that he would literally say that to people he would bring into his house.”
“Yo bro damn we were sitting down we’re sitting like on these couches,” said Royce, “It’s like a table right here and em is like finally comfortable right, he’s like yeah man you know cause I was thinking to myself and then (puts his legs on the table and instantly keep it down) and some done something and Dre was like yeah cause I was thinking too, by the way, it’s okay you can put your feet on my table, great times great times.”
The 2001 album, released in 1999, was Dre’s follow-up to his 1992 breakthrough, The Chronic. He would eventually meet Eminem five years later and recruit him for the project.
Snoop Dogg, the late Nate Dogg, Xzibit, Kokane, and Devin The Dude, among others, contributed to Dre’s sophomore effort. It opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling around 516,000 copies in its first week.
Royce also discusses his new album The Allegory and other topics in the conversation.
Watch the interview below.
