During the conversation with Royce da 5’9” at Joe Budden’s podcast a lot of things came to surface that were connected to their shared history as well as to current events.
One of the co-hosts noticed some similarities between Griselda and Slaughterhouse – both signed to Shady Records, both popular, both lyrically powerful and musically innovative. However, in Mal’s opinion, Griselda now is doing everything Slaughterhouse should have done, being raw and being themselves, not trying to sound like anybody else and ripping the benefits and seeing the success of that. Royce agreed that there is a lot of resemblances as well as a lot of differences:
As soon as they came around, as soon as Gunn and they came to my studio back in the day, that’s when the preaching for me started. To them. Taking our experiences, as soon as I signed up to Shady, and applying it to them. Sometimes people listen, sometimes they don’t but the good thing about them is that everything Slaughterhouse, all these nuances that made it hard to take it to that level, they don’t have those. They are a unit, they are from Buffalo, they are actually like a crew, family. And then it’s like Gunn is more in control of the aesthetics, a lot of things that you see it’s his taste level, and everybody plays a role. Slaughterhouse was four separate entities of guys who had dreams. I think we took it way further than we even thought it would go. But we made our mistakes. I personally can take the blame for some of creative mistakes. I told Gunn, just stay consistent, you guys keep doing what you’re doing, don’t change nothing. And it’ll grow. Because they are naturally gonna grow as artists. Each time they go back in is gonna be the next step up without having to reach to this step up. We reached for this step up because we got accused of not being able to go right there.
Joe Budden who still obviously has many things to say about why Slaughterhouse was disbanded and did not resolve his differences with Shady Records and Eminem, implied that Griselda is in a better position now then Slaughterhouse was back then because nobody pressures them and allow them to be themselves. But Royce had none of that, you should not and they did not wait for permission to be themselves.
They built that. They built that aesthetic. They built that aesthetic with the fans. They are like a hybrid of a lot of different things, which makes it the first time we’ve seen that. And they realise what the fans were following. Even with the merchandise, they know exactly what it is about them that the fans like. We came together like, “What the hell? Why do they like us so much?”
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