Now this is a story all about how Royce 5’9 first met Dr. Dre. Royce was 19 years old and living in Detroit with his parents. His friend, Marshall Mathers was in California working with Dre. Unbeknownst to Royce, Mathers shared Royce’s demo tape with the legendary producer. Then he received a phone call that would put him on the rap map.
“My father comes walking in the room and says, ‘Somebody by the name of Dr. Dre is on the phone for you,’ recalls the “Tabernacle”-emcee in a conversation with HipHopDX’s Live With Steve Lobel. “I had sent my demo to [Eminem]. He was in California. He played it for Dre but he didn’t tell me that Dre was gonna call me. I guess that was gonna be a surprise. I’m like, ‘Dr. Dre?’ People used to play on people’s phone back then, so I knew that it ain’t the Dr. Dre that I’m thinking. I get on the phone like, ‘Hello?’ He was like, ‘Yo, what’s up? This Dre.’ Automatically it sounded exactly like the N.W.A record. I knew exactly who I was talking to. I was like, ‘What’s up, man?’ I wasn’t mature enough to be like, ‘To what pleasure do I owe this phone call?’ I just froze. He just kind of navigated and said, ‘Yo, man. I really like your music, man. I wanted to know if you’d be interested in kind of coming out here and help out working with the album.’ I was like, ‘Would I?’ Then he put me on a plane and that was my first time coming out here to Los Angeles.”
As he tells it, after landing in LA, he took a car straight to Dre’s house where the two immediately jumped into a recording session.
“I remember walking through his garage,” Royce says. “It was this huge house. First time I’d ever seen a mansion. I go in there. There’s an entrance that goes straight into the studio. I’m sitting down and biting my nails waiting on him to come in because Marshall wasn’t there. He comes walking in and he’s like ‘What’s up?’ Dog, when I tell you… I’ve met a lot of people during my journeys in the Hip Hop business. He went out of his way the most to make me feel comfortable knowing that he’s a celebrity and I’m just a kid. We clicked immediately. I got into my comfort zone so fast because there was no pressure, no opinions. He was like, ‘Just write. Have fun.’ He was picking beats, picking drums, real hands-on. That dude is a producer. I just started writing as much as I could, just coming with ideas.”
Royce’s time in the studio resulted in the final cut on 2001, “The Message,” a powerful track about the death of his brother, something that immediately connected with Dr. Dre.
“I didn’t know anything about his brother,” Royce concludes. “I was rapping about my own experience, something that had just happened to me. Everything that you hear on that record—from paging him and leaving 911—all of these things I did myself. It just so happened that he did the exact same thing. That whole concept resonated with him because, for the most part, it’s true to the story. It was meant to be.”
Royce also details how Tabernacle: Trust The Shooter was inspired by an unbelievable 24 hours where his grandmother died, his son was born and he met Eminem. Watch the full video above. Listen to “The Message,” below:
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We actually talked about this during our Music Meeting last week, which is posted on the site. You can watch the playback where he talks about his moniker. He also spells it “Royce 5’9” on the Tabernacle: Trust The Shooter cover. Thank you for the comment though.
Wow, you actually got something right for the first time in your career! Congratulations, peasant!
Shut the Fuck up Dumbass! He works hard and if it wasn’t for him you would not of read it so go to Hell bitch!
Preach!!!
EVERY “Beats by Dre” article and interview, …IS A LIE! . Jimmy iovene simply “makes up story” as he talks. And this…Beats by Dre was TOLD to Dre in 1990 1991 @ Club Glam Slam (1) Because of Eric Wright (Eazy E) and (2) Dee Dee Barnes, that (andre) Dr. Dre of N.W.A.would eminate and “Take a Sh*t” on his problems and suprise everybody. In 1990 1991 we deemed him a good Catalyst and Suiter for what we had. Dr Dre imitates his Buddy EVERYDAY…and Jimmy iovene imitates our MOMENT in time with Dr Dre as he DECIDED to create A NEW STORY (…and more to INCLUDE and STATE that Interscope Singers and Rappers thought of it, such as the LIE from “WiLL i AM” to Steve Stoute about “I said to Jimmy “Hardware”)
Dude, wtf are you even saying?
Funny how everyone in rap says white people stole the culture but whats really funny is you have dr dre behind eminem one of the all time greats and undeniably one of the most succesful rapper turned businessmen he knows race has no issue in this music its hard as long as you have that pain and passion inside of you then you gotta let it all out in your music and that knows no race and look at puff all on board with MGK and rappers like jeezy bun b waka flocka DMX and TECH n9ne all colabing with him and yelawolf has tech n9ne bun b raekwon and gucci colabing with him all you dumb niggas on here bashing on the white rapprrs saying white people have no place in hiphop culture need to go shoot yourself when some of the best commercialy succesful and musicaly intricate artists who are black are always collabing with white artists and dont even see it as a barrier period everyone says white america needs to catch up but i think the black side of america needs to catch up a hell of alot more not to mention this article would not even exist if it was not for EMINEM a WHITE artist putting royce da 5’9 a BLACK artist on with dr dre his career may have kicked off eventualy either way yes but it would not be where it is today and im sure hes thankful as fuck for that too dont matter what color your skin is we are all on this earth and gotta look out for one another
“Beats by Dre was TOLD to Dr Dre (Andre Young) in 1990 1991 in our Car and in PRIVATE as (Dre) sat in our drivers seat @ Club Glam Slam. Later we TOLD Jimmy iovene in (1996 1997 because Dr Dre was always REMINDED everywhere we saw him UNTIL after singing Been There Done That on Saturday Night Live and (this is “the weak album” Jimmy iovene refers to with Steve Stoute on Steve Stoute Jimmy iovene pt. 3 on You Tube) Interscope Records allowed us into Saturday Night Live New York as Dr Dre sang “Been there Done That”, Jimmy iovene said “Sure Thing” to our Dre being in the Car the Phone and the Sony Walkman and we took a picture. See Steve Stoute Jimmy iovene pt. 3 on You Tube. The LIE became F*CK SNEAKERS LETS SELL SPEAKERS and Designers/Investment Procurers Steven Lamar and Noel Lee (Monster) BOTH have told their LIES. Eric Wright was one of TWO issues that Dr Dre was TOLD “F*CK THAT…IN THE FUTURE…THE WAY YOU SOUND IN THE STUDIO shall (1)(2)(3) to. Beats by Dre IS NOT a Dr Dre and Jimmy iovene concept nor invention nor idea. A Steven Lamar has stated that he one day proposed to Jimmy iovene “High End Headphones to be marketed by a Celebrity ” to REPLACE us (but Dr. Dre was TOLD the Car the Phone and the Sony Walkman in 1990 1991). “Beats by Dre” is a Contractual Conspiracy to CONCEAL its TRUE derivation. “Beats by Dre” became and is the GREATEST Corporate Conspiracy of ALL TIME. Also see WiLL I am Steve Stoute pt. 3 on YOU Tube and look at this LIAR also.”1990-1991 @ CLub GLaM SLaM as (Dr. Dre) sat to our left in our car, a BOISTEROUS laugh was shared and hands shaken and pictures taken as Dr. Dre was TOLD as well, “… and charge $2000.00 dollars each for them sh*t’s “, and then we reduced to $1000.00 dollars each, and then we reduced to $800.00 each, and then $500.00. This is the factor that has become referred to as the “Fashion Quality”. “Dr. Dre ” was then TOLD “…muthaf*ckas is gonna be wearing this sh*t, and don’t even got it plugged into nuffin'”. N.W.A. (andre) said “GOTTDUhaymm!!!!”. “In the FUTURE” 2014?, and as SPOKEN into being to Dr. Dre in 1990 1991, many walk around and interview wearing our (Musical Flightline Ear Protection) “not plugged in”, nor with requisite power supply, and even “Off”. That a “Social Status” would derive was foreseen, and that “Status” have (Andre) “Dr. Dre” at it basis. WOW (andre) Dr. Dre. …how yall (Interscope and Jimmy iovene et al.) LIED to do as yall were TOLD”. Dr. Dre and Jimmy iovene, of our instruction made it into the Panasonic Car Phone “H.T.C. and the MBZ 190e “Dodge Challenger 300” and the Sony Walkman “Flight Line Ear Protection”. GOOGLE wellington cousins
Nigga shut the Fuck up with that bullshit!
Wanna a cookie for just coming up with an idea of wireless headphones? Damn your fucking stupid and trying to cry because you wanted to take advantage of a celebs image and he told you to fuck off and did it himself i wouldve done the same dick riding little leech
Then Royce had to tell everyone he was a ghostwriter and almost got himself blackballed out the game
So fucking what? The guy is good enough with his pen to where he can earn royalties without even having to personaly pick up the mic its a pretty common business practice and a way to rack up quick cash i make around $10k a year in just job refferals to other friends companies due to mine being too busy to cover the volume so i have a friend do it and charge a finders fee kinda what he does with ghost writing it should be an honor to be a ghost writer for other artists who believe your lyricaly as skilled as you are now go listen to some drake or something douche
Your right. He ran his mouth like a dude that smashed and told everybody.. Thats a no no
these are the articles im looking for! thank’s DX!
to bad his manager set him back decades … you dont tell the media that eminem out shines his boss,mentor,ect