Royce da 5’9” is busy promoting his incredible new album “The Allegory” and doing interviews left and right. While he has plenty of wisdom to share on his own, reporters manage to sneak in an occasional question related to Eminem.
During his recent visit to The Breakfast Club show, he was asked about all this noise with Nick Cannon’s reaction to Eminem’s verse on “Lord Above” when Royce famously advised Marshall not to react to Nick’s frenzy. Royce elaborated on that topic:
Sometimes I feel like it’s a distraction more so than it is just healthy. The thing with Nick Cannon is that I seen that Nick Cannon seemed really, really offended. To me, that’s when it should stop. I know there’s no malice coming from Marshall’s end, it’s not personal coming from his end. The second he started to look super offended they should talk or everything should just stop. Em ain’t running around trying to just disrespect people wives and shit like that. It’s not really that type of thing. I think that the line on the Fat Joe record came from just Nick running around, talking about like he was gonna be coming to Detroit and beat up Marshall and all of that. I think Marshall just got tired of him doing that. So he sent him a line on some hip-hop shit but I think Nick took it way more personal than he was taking shit before. He’s a little older now, perspective changes, even more grown now. Once that happens and people look genuinely offended it stops feeling like a fun situation to me. It’s feeling like competitive hip-hop, it starts to seem personal.
Charlemagne reminded about old discarded Eminem’s records that Nick Cannon unearthed to prove that Em is a racist, which looked more like desperate attempts to discredit an artist than horrifying revelations. Royce agreed:
It looks bad. It looks bad when you’re trying to ruin somebody. It does something to your credibility and I wish Nick wouldn’t put himself in that position because we are who we were, we are who we was before we got here. If that’s what Marshall was it would have shown by now. My credibility is everything to me, my integrity means everything to me. I’m not standing next to nothing that I’m not sure about. I’ve never done anything for anybody to question my credibility. So if I’m standing by it, it’s for a reason. I’m not standing by no shit that’s disruptive to my people. Nothing is more important than that to me. So if I’m still standing next to this man it’s because I feel confident in that.
Watch Royce talking about that below:
