The Long Beach lyricist wants to channel the energy around Royce’s beef into reviving their superband.
In a long and emotional conversation with the PsaHipHOP host, KXNG Crooked covered the recent fallout between Royce da 5’9 and Lupe Fiasco. He described what Royce was doing as “slap boxing” that Lupe flipped into a full-blown fight. Crook regrets that the admirable cooperation between two powerful lyricists is coming to an ugly end, and their podcast becomes collateral in this war.
Crook, however, is not happy about the waste of time and energy that goes into dealing with this tension and has a better offer for Royce:
When Royce joke around like, “Why Crook and Joell didn’t come jump in? You’re Royce the fuck 5’9! What are you talking about, dawg? Let’s not play. We already know you could go in there in five fucking minutes, and you could tear this shit down. If you ever need us, we’re always in your corner, that’s one hundred. Right now, the bigger picture is this: he’s got a mental health initiative he’s working on, he’s doing shit with the Detroit Pistons, they got Detroit day coming up soon with Marshall and Trick Trick, and all these people trying to create real change for their neighbourhood, for the city. You’re doing all this positive shit on the one hand, and on the other hand, you’re out here talking about tying niggas’ moms up on this record. Not saying that’s what he said, but to me, the bigger picture of that is like, do you really want to be in that frequency over there? And that vibration? This is me talking. This is me and what I like to see my brother doing. I prefer to see my brother over there doing his mental health initiatives, helping the community, trying to change Detroit for the better. That’s what I’d rather see my brother doing. I know a lot of people online want to see the back and forth, and that’s cool too. So half of me, “I’m with you”, it is on that level too because I know what he can do. He’s a killer. And the other half of me is like, yo. And usually, the more positive works for me these days. Because I’m older.
We could take that energy all the way to the Slaughterhouse reunion. I come from the era of niggas getting disco of classic albums. I ain’t talking about just dropping shit on the internet. We can go create a classic album, and we could talk to how many niggas we need to talk to on a few of them joints and give it to the culture. I’m with that type of shit way more than anything that people are trying to bait me into right now.
We could go over there and do that on the Slaughterhouse shit and reunite for the culture. Because I believe the fans deserve one last Slaughterhouse. They deserve that because motherfuckers still talk about Slaughterhouse today. We dropped our last shit in 2012! Nine years ago. The way we’re going out right now as a brand and not at least picking up and trying to do one more for the culture, and always talking to each other about that and not meeting up in Detroit, man… How long do they think they’re gonna have me sitting around here? I’m already looking at retirement. They better hurry up. When I retired, I’m not playing with this shit. Stop playing, Slaughterhouse. Stop playing.
So over this weekend, KXNG Crooked is having a serious conversation with his bandmates, and on Monday we can learn the results of this historic meeting.
Watch the video below:
