Kxng Crooked says Slaughterhouse music was mostly delayed because of Joe Budden.
After failing to get Royce Da 5’9″ and Joe Budden on board for a Slaughterhouse reunion, KXNG Crooked and Joell Ortiz decided to go their own way with a new collaboration album called “Rise & Fall of Slaughterhouse,” which was released last week. The project was released with criticism from Royce Da 5’9″ and Joe Budden, who slammed their former label partners over the whole thing, and Budden also got into a heated exchange with Ortiz.
KXNG Crooked now made a visit to Bootleg Kev show, where he explained the whole situation with Budden, and how he always made them delay the new Slaughterhouse music. “Put yourself in the fans shoes for a minute, you’ve been waiting on one of your favourite groups in the world to drop an album for 10 years,” he said. “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. So I need to address all this stuff because whenever they say that I just come back with the truth. You can attack my character my integrity, you could try to assassinate it and say that I’m a liar and I’m doing this for money and all that sh*t.”
He continues, “We started Slaughterhouse in the early days waiting on Joe [Budden]. When we first got out deal with Shady [Records], we had a song called “Session One” on one of Em’s projects. He was trying to put the group on one of his projects, I think it was a bonus cut or something on the albums. So we did Session One, and all the Slaughterhouse fans know Joe Budden isn’t on Session One. Joe was signed to another label, he was caught up in some paperwork. They called over to Shady like hey we have under contract, you have to get a clearance from us to have him appear on the song. All of us supposedly free agents to sign this deal with Shady, and come to find out Joe was on the paperwork, he said that they forged his signature and that wasn’t him. The group was put on the shelf for a minute, While he was fighting amalgam digital label in court, and we were waiting on Joe because we couldn’t move forward, and that took months.” The rapper then revealed that there were several events after that, where they had to wait for Budden to release new music.”
That conversation came to a sudden stop, but it was revealed that the four artists had been working behind the scenes to move the group off of Eminem’s Shady Records, and that Joe Budden had pretty much ended a five-year retirement to re-join Slaughterhouse for a feature for Westside Gunn (which ultimately did not happen). Their main point of contention seems to be a Slaughterhouse record contract that is now on the table. Joell claims that Joe and Royce turned down the contract, but both Joe and Royce deny this.
Watch it below.
