Yesterday, Slaughterhouse’s BET Hip Hop Awards cypher video was released. The group, which consists of Crooked I, Joe Budden, Royce Da 5’9 and Joell Ortiz, filmed the cypher earlier this year at an undisclosed location in downtown Los Angeles.
Crooked I recently spoke with HipHopDX about why there should be no restrictions during cyphers.
“It was a real dope atmosphere,” Crooked I said. “DJ Premier was back there spinning. It felt like real Hip Hop was in the building from the start. Of course, we went in and did our thing. My only thing is BET sets us a certain amount of bars that we can spit. Well, they gave us a certain amount of bars. I don’t know about everybody else. I was just thinking, ‘I wanna spit more bars.’ A cypher shouldn’t have no limit on the bars. You should just go.”
Crooked I also addressed whether Slaughterhouse followed the guidelines set by the network.
“They sent an e-mail out that they wanted everybody to spit 16 [bars],” Crooked I continued. “Slaughterhouse, we’re on some rebel shit from the gate, so I think we probably all did 24s. But, I was like, ‘If I could give these niggas a cold 50 [bars] right now, I’ll shut BET down forever.’ I would have put an ‘Out of Order’ sign on BET. I think that’s what niggas wanna see. In the classic cypher that we did with Eminem [in 2011], I know Em did 40 plus [bars]. He absolutely murdered it. Then again, that’s Eminem. He can do whatever the fuck he wants to do.”
Slaughterhouse’s 2013 cypher verse can be viewed below, via YardieGoals.
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Crooked I Praises Eminem’s 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher Verse
During the interview, Crooked I also explained why Eminem didn’t need to drop a verse this year, despite having an upcoming album on its way with The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
“Em made his statement,” Crooked I said, referring to Eminem’s 2011 cypher performance. “You’ve got a lot of artists who’ve sold multi-platinum albums who would never get in a cypher because they’re in fear their fans would see them get bodybagged by other rappers. So, instead of catching that L live on TV, they’ll avoid cyphers. So, just the fact that Em came down, probably one of the biggest selling Hip Hop artists of all time, and then jumped in a cypher and gave 40 plus hard bars, then he don’t got nothing else to prove.”
The 2011 Shady cypher, which included Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf and Eminem, can be viewed below, via Shady Records.
Shady Records 2.0 Boys 2011 Cypher (Uncut) from Shady Records on Vimeo.
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kendrick did like 50
The 2011 cypher was legendary, and not just because of Em’s verse, but Slaughterhouse’s as well. 2013 one was a huge letdown.
After just listening to the new one, I fully agree.
Considering the 2011 cypher was dope but the album was a disappointment, I’ll take a less dope cypher but a much better album. Need better production on it this time around.
DJ Premiere?
And you double checked and still thought it was right? lol
Time to get you culture vultures up outta here
This is exactly what I just said in another post! This guy is a straight clown, he’s the cardboard roll when the toilet paper is all gone! I wonder what these guys salaries are looking like, to get on here and publish articles for the world to read and not know what the FUCK they are talking about! sign me up!
lol Rory
this ain’t Complex, XXL, or MTV, they most likely interns working for goods and resume points.
And the secret is, they’re trolls boosting the views for ad money.
this gotta be the shittiest media player ever. just stops randomly in the middle of a verse and cuts to a commercial then comes back???
JO is skinny as fck!
I love joe
besides that was em’s second. this is joey and joell’s 3rd.
this was whack. straight up.
your life is wack, get off the internet and change that
kmkm
the powers that be must implicitly state that every semi-successful rapper MUST crown Em is the best rapper alive or the Jewish label execs will nuder your career….
my boy was there doing sound. He said all the rappers had to do multiple takes and Em did it in 1 take. So sick
“You’ve got a lot of artists who’ve sold multi-platinum albums who would never get in a cypher because they’re in fear their fans would see them get bodybagged by other rappers. So, instead of catching that L live on TV, they’ll avoid cyphers.”
^ real talk
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This is dope man Im happy to see BET playing these dope rappers!
They all killed it.
Maybe I got to say the flow of Crooked I in some point was murderous.
Crooked I destroyed that ish
Crooked I had the second best cypher in 2013 next to Kendrick, and he even went in 2011, the dude is a monster like the comments in the article says, BET would be out of order cause he can keep going
Budden is underrated
word
Royce’s word play killed it hands down
are these guys selling records tell me how many they sold
Yup you’re a fuckin retard..
joell killed it hands down
Joell has lost mad weight
royce was better before the gucci
slaughterhouse is over
and blackhippy on there way out
once they reach mainstream the good tracks stop coming
black hippy was better 2 years ago
from wale to kendrick every new schooler has sold out with there debut album
its like dope mixtapes then trash albums
same thing going to happen to schoolboy q joey badass and action bronson
action or joey baddass should have won rookie of the year
who the fuck asap furg
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