Joe Budden & Royce Da 5’9 talks new KXNG Crooked & Joell Ortiz album on “The Joe Budden Podcast”.
After numerous efforts to reunite the rap group Slaughterhouse, KXNG Crooked and Joell Ortiz decided to go their own way with their latest project “The Rise & Fall Of Slaughterhouse.” The album was released earlier this month with disapproval from other two members of the dissolved group, Joe Budden and Royce da 5’9.
Before the album was released, Joell Ortiz and Joe Budden got into a heated verbal exchange on IG live in presence of Royce da 5’9. “Joell, that album can s**k my d**k… Are you kidding me? You want me to tell people to listen to this clown show? Get the f**k out of here with that man,” said Budden. “S**k my d**k… Don’t go there, Don’t do that,” responds Ortiz before leaving the live conversation.
Now Joe Budden and Royce da 5’9 again connects in the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast”, which is titled “Crook & Joell Are Playing The Victims”. “One way to look at it is if it gave you the fulfillment you were looking for. We don’t qualify to say if y’all hit y’alls mark. If there was a certain reaction that they were looking for from us, I would need to know what that is,” says Royce.
“They kept saying, ‘just wait until you hear the album,’” said Budden. “For me, it was a little anticlimactic. It was like a rollercoaster. You watch it go up. It’s going up and it’s going up, and you expect the … and then you’re let down.” Royce continues, “It speaks to their sense of quality control… There’s such thing that you can do to bring down the quality of the brand. There’s such thing you can do to raise the quality of the brand.”
During a recent episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast, KXNG Crooked discussed Slaughterhouse’s downfall and said Budden wasn’t telling the truth about what happened. “Put yourself in the fans shoes for a minute,” he said. “You’ve been waiting on one of your favourite groups in the world to drop an album for 10 years. Now behind the scenes, I’ve been taking flights to New York, go talk to Paul Rosenberg. I’ve been taking flights to Detroit, talking to Em, talking to Royce, how can we put this back together? It’s not happened in 10 years. So you’re telling me you want me to wait again and then I saw something where Royce said that we weren’t waiting on anybody… that’s a lie.”
The “Rise & Fall of Slaughterhouse” charted in Billboard 200 at number 152, with US sales over 8,000+ in the first week, and over 15,000 worldwide.
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