Royce Da 5’9 Stands His Ground After Ranking Snoop Dogg’s ‘Doggystyle’ Over All Eminem LPs

    Royce Da 5’9 isn’t here to appease Eminem’s Stans.

    After Snoop Dogg told The Breakfast Club he doesn’t place Slim Shady in his personal Top 10 and went on to credit Dr. Dre for a lot of Em’s success, Em’s ever-loyal fans rushed to diss him. When the convo made its way to Instagram, Em’s longtime friend and collaborator Royce hopped in the comments to add his two cents – and he actually agreed. He even went on to put Snoop’s classic 1993 debut Doggystyle over Em’s entire catalogue.

    “Snoop is qualified to say everything he just said,” he wrote on Sunday (August 2). “And yes, I agree that Dre gave us the best version of Marshall we could’ve ever seen. I completely understand his criteria he’s going by. I’m the other way around as a fan. Snoop ain’t as high on my list as Em but I can’t live without Doggystyle. I’ll take that over any Em album… It’s all subjective.”

    Naturally, the Stans soon turned their ire on him, accusing the Detroit native of being a fickle friend to Em and theorizing he’d one day stab him in the back. But Royce doesn’t care. When a fan tweeted him about pissing the Stans off, Nickle Nine made his stance clear as day.

    “Fuck them,” he wrote in a retweet of the fan’s comment. “They’re [sic] conditional love is no longer accepted here.”

    While on The Breakfast Club, Snoop said Dre put Eminem in position to win but never disrespected his longtime friend.

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    “Eminem? The Great White hope?” Snoop said. “White rappers had zero respect in rap, let’s keep that 1-thowwow. None. He [Dre] has probably put Eminem in the position to where he could be like labeled as one of Top 10 rappers ever. I don’t think so, but the game feels like he’s Top 10 lyricist and all that comes with it but that’s just because he’s with Dr. Dre and Dr. Dre helped him find the best Eminem he could find.”

    He later answered to the backlash he received for this statements and shared his love for Em, then clarified his Top 10 list consists solely of MCs who came before him. Check out Snoop’s Top 10 list below.

    116 thoughts on “Royce Da 5’9 Stands His Ground After Ranking Snoop Dogg’s ‘Doggystyle’ Over All Eminem LPs

    1. Royce still moving scary. Follower. Going with Snoop. Em saved his career, he doesn’t have to say this publically. Also I feel Bass Brothers were better production for Eminem. Royce is coming off as a dry drunk. He quit alcohol now his emotions are spiraling. Not trying to diss him. He just moves spooky. Best of luck to him.

        1. I agree. Royce is not political rap. Royce is dope rhyme rap. He can be dope but chooses to go political which he is not good at. Public Enemy is the rap brand for that. Royce scares me. As a fan of his old work I hope he goes back to his old Royce style.

    2. Royce a real bitch-ass hoe, nobody would be checking for anything he dropped in Hip-Hop in 2020 if he hadn’t been on Em’s nuts for the past 10+ years… That Bad Meets Evil album basically gave Royce a 2nd chance at having a successful career… But now all of a sudden since the popular thing in Hip-Hop is to hate on the white man Royce wants to get his 2 cents in as well and talk negative about Em… Just remember Snoop ended his diatribe with “I can live without that” live without what?? White people rapping?? If so that sounds pretty racist to me and since Royce is out here acting like a fake MLK and schooling people on racism why didn’t he bring this shit up?? Is it because black people can’t be racist?? Or are Royce and Snoop racists?? That’s what it looks like to me!

      1. Music To Be Murdered By was trash how’s that sound b*tch? U’re a p*ssy in real life and u’re nothing without your device in hand. U prolly jack off 20 hours a day and doesn’t go out.You’re a f*g, a p*ssy, a stan. F*ck you.

          1. You wrote a long ass article b*tching and moaning about Royce and couldn’t stay off Em’s Dck for a sec. U got triggered by Royce’s valid opinion. I got triggered by your stupid brain.

      2. Black people cant be racist because racist is a systematic thing and we have no power. 2… you must be fucking dead if you don’t like Allegory. See?? You are an All Lives Matter racist. That’s all you are. You just need vindication that you are cool. YOU AINT BLACK!!! You ain’t gonna ever be black. Why don’t you work more on finding black friends instead of putting you hopes in a poor white kid that grew up in a black neighborhood and learned to embrace black people without trying to put his racist bullshit on them. Em used to call Denaun and Proofs mothers “mom”. Can you say that you can not make racial biases?of course you can’t cause you just All Lives Mattered is all! I’m waiting for you to Zelig heil out of here

    3. Snoop only has 1994’s Doggy style. He treated Tupac poorly when he was living. Snoop clearly said racist things over the last 10 years. The Versus was a great move. But it’s all from his pre 2000 era. Snoop is nowhere near Jay Z, Krs, Eminem, Ice T, G Rap in terms of anything in rap. If Snoop and Royce don’t stop this negative direction they’re in they will not reverse the mistakes they’ve made. And Em just showed Snoop love on the Cudi track. Cudi and Em are still Relevant.

      I hope Eminem’s next album sounds like 1997 underground Em and he attacks everyone. Good luck.

    4. What did he say wrong? He said he ranks Em higher than Snoop (as an MC)… then said he couldn’t live without Doggystyle. What’s wrong with that? He didn’t disrespect Em and he’s right about ‘Doggystyle’, it’s a certified classic! People be in they feelings when someone states their opinion. It’s crazy.

    5. I agree I’ll Take DoggyStyle over and Eminem Album. Doggystyle is my Favorite Hip Hop Album of all time.

    6. snakes…………………… wouldnt know Royce if I knew found out about Detroit which I wouldnt know existed if not for Kid Rock and Eminem. Two white dudes. Fucking Racists snakes…

      1. Didnt Kid Rock.act black when he first came out with the spiked hair dancing like Vinilla Ice. Than he was performing with Jayz than starting dissing Beyonce. Would Kid Rock have made it out of Detroit hoods rocking a Confederate Flags. But once he is was successful he turned on the black community that welcomed him. And Royce is racists because he agrees with snoop. I am tired of racist white people in hiphop. The I love black misic but I hate black people is getting old.

    7. Y’all Eminem Stans need to get over it. First y’all want to go after Snoop who didn’t put Em on his top 10 list. Mind you Snoop doesn’t have any issues with Eminem, they have actually done songs together. However, Eminems delusional fans who think if Eminem isn’t mentioned then a person is hating or being bias wanted to try to hate on Snoop. NOW Royce has said Doggie Style is above all of Ems albums(which he’s right the only album that comes close is the Marshal Mathers LP). This is Eminems best friend a person who has done albums with him and he is telling you this. Stop acting like this dude is the Jordan of rap, he’s not automatically in everyone’s top MC list.

    8. You don’t even have to like Em or pump his music BUT if you gonna front on his lyrical skillz you are obviously a delusional hater …Snoop doesn’t have even a fraction of Em’s lyrical prowess…and we just found out Jay Z wrote one of Snoops best joints with Dre…Em bodied J on his best album…FOH Snoop fraudie fraud

      1. None of em’s albums changed my life. Doggystyle did. If the album (a full body of work) aint on your emcee criteria list, then you might as well acknowledge spoken word poets too.

    9. I don’t know why people take offense to this.. music just hits different when you’re younger. I’m the last ten years, my two favorite rap albums have been Man on the Moon and Good Kid Maad City. Both are stone cold classics imo. But neither one will ever touch Stillmatic or the Eminem Show in my mind because the latter two came out when I was a freshman in HS and affected me differently. They hold a special place in my heart. I know I’m rambling but what I’m trying to get at is that these artists probably inspired Snoop and as good as his contemporaries and the younger generation might be, Snoop was in a different stage of his life where music didn’t impact him the same way. Nostalgia is a strong motivator.

      1. Rock n roll is a black artform. And YES you see black people complaining about white people stealing it ALL THE TIME..

    10. I think everybody knows that Doggystyle is better than any of Em’s albums. In fact, Doggystyle is the best Death Row album period. It’s also the best album that was touched by Dre. So it’s better than any of the Aftermath joints, any of the Chronic joints, any of the NWA joints, etc. That being said – Snoop isn’t close to Em overall and everyone also knows this. The mans second album was trash and he didn’t make anything decent until being on a fading No Limit Records and needed Dre and the Neptunes to resurrect his career. Also, Too Short was my favorite artist growing up. He has no place on a Top 10 list and nor does Ice-T. Ice Cube is extremely questionable as well as he was amazing with Dre and the Bomb Squad and past 95 has been garbage. Still love Cube overall. Top 20 not Top 5.

    11. Man Em has a couple fire albums … one being a top 10 … but Doggy is one of the best musical albums of all time … not just hip-hop … it’s sequenced like the comic that came with the physical … storytelling through a coherent amalgamation of song and skit … does Em have the edge on lyrical and technical ability … sure .. he has to because he’s white … and at the time of his rise a mediocre or low skill level would have resulted in mockery and failure …. but Doggy is a screenplay … it’s not just about good punchlines or syllable count … his flow is tight and clean so you can visual the story … and if you tell me that Snoop and that Dre are not in the top duos in hip-hop I ages e to know what dispensary you use … cuz you twisted on a level I’ve never reached

    12. doggystyle favorite album all time period. Eminem show is em’s best album period. Doggystyle beats that all day everyday.

    13. Eminem rhyme style is a hybrid of redman, nas, 2pac, and busta.
      Listen closely.
      He is his own man and earned his right regardless of the tone of his skin but these are the facts of life.

    14. Here’s the thing why Eminem deserves to be on a top 10 list when being more objectives and not just talking about personal faves. He is possibly unparalleled technically due to his aspergers (he said he had it) and being a near savant at it. No one comes close to his rhyme schemes or intricacy. It’s true he has used the ability to make some wack music, but his first 3/4 albums were fire, which comes to the second reason he makes the list…he did something original. The Slim Shady character is genius…the wacky loony tunes psychopath funneled through hardcore hip hop was amazing, and it worked. It’s nonsense that he was a white people thing…every Eminem concert I went to in the early 200s was still majority black people. And third reason is he has longevity. He had some wack albums but he is still here, putting out fire like MMPL2 and Kamikaze. His last album was ok as well…not great but ok. How many other rappers influenced the game like that and made an impact, have that level of technical skill and longevity, and a badass catalog of songs behind them?

        1. You mean not on, right? Yeah it’s a wack list. Snoop is wack so it makes sense his list is as well.

      1. Jay z, you asked whohas influenced the game like that have a top tier level of technical ability and longevity and a badass catalog of songs behind them, Black thought is another, Mos Def is another, I think Lupe fiasco beats eminem at metaphors alll day his whole albums are metaphors and concepts. Don’t get me wrong Em is a bad motherfucker i love his work as well but he aint in my top five might push for ten but Big Pun to be doesnt have the catalogue but was eons better technically and at song making(actual songs that can bang out for decades) I don’t think eminem music has aged well, i love slim shady Lp and mmlp but after that its all a bit funny. But i get you man.

        1. You make a good argument man, and that’s well thought out reasoning. Em is sitll in my top 10 maybe even top 5 but I don’t disagree with anything you have said. Hell DMX is possibly in my top 10 and he certainly didn’t have longevity.

    15. well it is important to stand your ground I guess.

    16. I mean this ain’t even controversial. Eminem is a great emcee but Doggystyle is in my top 5 albums of all time. Em has got bars for days but his albums don’t have much replay value for me. Once an Em album is a year old I will rarely touch it. Doggystyle still gets regular spins. It’s timeless. It will still be rocking parties in 2050.

    17. Snoop needs to have a sit down with Lord Jamar. Both jealous of Eminem’s clout in the rap game and can’t handle a White rapper beating them at their own sport.

          1. He said they’re jealous and can’t handle a WHITE RAPPER beating them. If that’s not racist, then ok dool.

    18. 2Pac,JayZ nor Chuck D isn’t in Snoop’s top ten.Thats ridiculous! With all that’s been said about Em, who produced DoggyStyle?

      1. As an “MC” strictly speaking, 2pac is not even known for being a super lyricist or havin an incredible flow. He’s mostly known for the social and political message in his music. Therefore it doesn’t surprise me if he’s not mentioned in a top 10 mc’s list where lyrics, wordplays and flows are the criterion to make it on such list. Only bitches feel some kind of way when 2pac is not ranked among KRS One, Rakim, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, etc… As far as Jay-Z… well he’s overrated as fuck !

      1. ??? People still play songs off of doggy style….when was the last time some body said “Hey, put that Marshall mathers lp on!”

    19. Mr. Royce, we respect your opinion. But you claim Eminem is your friend, so why not keep that to yourself instead of taking it to social media. This is the kind of thing Proof will never do. Just unfortunate that he’s dead and Em took you along.

        1. No but it does mean keeping your mouth shut if your opinion isn’t elevating them. If you disagree it’s prolly coz you’re a shitty friend with shitty friends and haven’t learned better.

          1. That’s just false LOL. I’m glad I’m not friends with you and shouldn’t live for your dumb expectations. Learn better.

      1. It’s also the same shit he said to Budden, Royce told Budden he should keep negative opinions of friends private now here the clown is. Royce is a joke the last two years, a bigot and a racist and I guarantee he’s allowed new people with those views in his circle the last 2 years because he was never an open Kweli before this (Kweli = ignorant bigot)

      2. Denaun is Ems best friend… not Royce. Em signed Royce. Denaun and Em lived with each other before Em married Kim. Denaun was 17 I believe. They still are best friends. That’s why Denaun is his hype man. Royce started talking to Em again after they ran into each other at Proofs funeral. They haven’t been best friends the whole time and Royce said last year that it’s a long way to get Em to trust him again because it might take Em a week to call him back when before, he’d call back immediately. But you probably don’t know what happened there either. How good of a fan are you? Denaun and Em are like two arguing old women. That’s why they still fight about Bob stealing Ems Pacer and Denaun saying he never stole it because he had no money to go anywhere anyway. Royce works more with Em cause Denaun does his own thing in the studio as a producer and he’s been singing a lot but he said a while back on chat that he drops in on Em a couple of times a week and then Em gets him mad and he leaves.

    20. And I ain’t mad if you say doggystyle is better than any Em album.
      Doggystyle is way up there in classics, in the pot of classics doggystyle rises to the top

      1. shut up, no one is mad about his top 10. it was the other things snoop said about eminem that people have a problem with.

    21. Em doesn’t have to be on Royces or Snoops top 10. I think it’s funny that stans, who are a majority non black seek legitimacy in black rappers having him on their top 10. Em being on their top 10 isn’t going to make you black!! For some reason, they will never understand that. That’s why they keep putting up their “Eminem is the best black rapper alive” posts up on IG. Em grew up in a world none of them could imagine: being poor and white being surrounded by blacks. Most of them are middle to upper middle class and would never understand that so I just think that is funny. Also worth noting is that Em didn’t have Dre or Snoop on his top 10 but they are crying snake because Snoop didn’t have him on theirs. Cry me a River. Snoop and Royce are black. The black experience is different than the white experience therefore they are going to have different favorite rappers than Em. Ems early catalogs was primarily him talking about his mom being on drugs, how much he hated Kim and drugs. Don’t get me wrong. I do have Em in my all time but I don’t personally relate to his earlier catalogue but what redeems him to me is his last 5 albums. And yes, I do love Revival but for reasons stans can’t understand. It was Em putting away his anger and starting a new chapter in his rapping and using wordplay more. How many times do you think he can kill his moms and his ex wife??? But I guess that’s what stans love. The immaturity of it all.

      1. No one is saying Em is greatest black rapper alive, don’t be a dumbass. They’re saying Eminem is greatest rapper Alive. Only bitches change conversations for the sake of winning them.

        1. Have you gone on Instagram??? White kids putting up posts of Em being black with the “Best Black Rapper alive”?? You don’t think that smacks of racism?? Or the picture of 50 being white and Em being black? You really tried it!

      2. like snoop, like royce, you completely miss the point. NO ONE is mad about his top 10 list. its the comments about how hes only respected or considered a goat because of dr. dre, its the comment about how he can live without any of eminem’s albums. it was him bringing up his race and white rappers to qualify what he said about em. THAT is what the backlash is over. the extra commentary that he didn’t need to say at all about another man he claims to be family. same with royce. saying he put ds over em’s entire catalog. they said too much about their own homeboy. just say your top 10 and keep it moving. again, no one cares about a goddamn top 10 list bro. stop pretending thats what the contention is.

        1. I like em but he’s right! His music was never vital to the culture. Not everyone could relate to wanting to kill there mom’s lol. Without dre he wouldn’t be considered top 10. And as much as you hate to believe it, him being white is a huge reason. Em even said so himself.

        2. You didn’t even watch the whole interview. That was a sniper. He gave Em mad respect in that interview and it was all truth. Em is the great white hope and nobody in the black community respected white rappers until Em came out. Before Em, there was Snow and Vanilla Ice. But if you look at Snoops list, 3 of his top 10’s are regional to him. West coast. He didn’t even put Pac on there. And the rest were old school.. he gave Run And D their own place on the list because they were great rappers individually, not just in Run DMC. Watch the interview. You look stupid. Everyone knows that The Breakfast Club hates Em anyway because of Charlamagne the God so you falling for fake hype.

    22. Hey Eminem fans, you heard Royce man. You’re love and support is no longer accepted by Royce so now he has about 20 fans.. good luck Uncle Tom

      1. Your racism exposed. This is the heart of Eminem Stan’s. Pure racism. They demand black rappers worship their white messiah. Who inferior. But u triggered unless everyone says wat u demand that he best. Disgusting

      2. Uncle Tom was a man that refused to hit or degrade his race of black women. Learn history before you call a person a “uncle tom!!!” Sambo!!! That’s the master lover word!!!

    23. There goes that wished for bad meets evil album out the window. Not that it was happening anyways. Royce is usually the Stan. I wonder if there’s something going on

    24. F*ck those stans. Stans are snakes for turning their backs to Royce for his valid opinion, I repeat, valid opinion. Stan stands for F*g9ot.

    25. *earlier comment didn’t post*

      Well there’s goes any chance at a new bad meets evil happening now it seems. Maybe something is going on behind the scenes now?

    26. The insecurity, entitlement and toxicity of Stan’s. They demand other rappers bow down alliegance and kiss em ass or .. they get triggered. This behaviour speaks volumes about their hero they worship.

    27. Eminem show kills all of snoops shit in my opinion, yes we have all partied a millions times over to snoops shit, that dosent make him a better mc or have a better album.

      1. Actually it does mean better music album lol. When is the last time you did anything a million times to a eminem album?? Besides be depressed lol. They both goats, snoop just has better overall music

    28. It ain’t Stanish to say that every n!qqa that made money from associating with Eminem somehow ends up dissing him either straight up or underhanded. These some two-faced bastard muthafxckers. Fxck giving him props as a lyricist you insulted the only guy that reserected your failed ‘career’ wft is that? Snake sh!t

      1. It’s not a diss for 1. For 2, eminem ain’t do shit to boost Royce career lol. And 3, stop dick eating lol. You don’t know em stop taking shit personally! Sensitive ass

    29. Royce is right! Doggystyle is my favorite position!! I love it when my bf hits it from the back!!!

    30. I’m a huge em fan. He has super dope music. Doggy style is like in the rap commandments. Snoop is qualified to say this.

    31. So Royce can’t have an option ? Being someone’s friend does not mean you have to be fake. He kept it real and spoke his mind like a real man. If that’s how snoop and royce feels, well let them. Some of yall are too sensitive like little h*es.
      Man up. smh

    32. the issue isnt em being left off the list. the issue is targeting the white guy for no reason at all. no reason to bring him up just to bring him down.

      1. “The issue is Targeting the white guy” said No one ever!l Lol doesn’t even sound right lol. Sensitive mfs

        1. Imagine theres a black country star that is considered one of the best country stars and on a lot of top lists. It’d be really weird if the big older country stars started randomly talking about how the black guy isnt the best or in their top list. you little bitches would be crying “targeting the black guy” so dont act like yall arent the most sensitive. go ahead and say “its different! we’re black!” or whatever tf argument you have.

    33. Who produced “Doggy style”? Who groomed Snoop into being the best
      doggydog version of himself? Folks often project their own faults and shortcomings onto others… Snoop is an icon and “Doggystyle” is one of my favorite rap albums of all time, (on my list) out ranking anything Slim has done, but I’ve always considered it a Dre album preformed by Snoop more than an actual Snoop album. In an original freestyle battle Snoop wouldn’t stand a chance against Shady and if you’ve ever been to a Snoop show you know it’s not much more than Snoopy singing karaoke… He couldn’t make it to the second round at a Scribble Jam event.

      1. He never said dre didn’t help him too smh. And how doggystyle sound like a dre album when snoop wrote dre album lol. So technically, it sounds like a snoop album imo. Freestyle battles dont matter or Scribble jam snoop better

    34. Doggystyle was the first rap album I ever had, so it’s impossible for me to diss it. BUT to act like Dre gave Em all this help and not Snoop? He basically taught Snoop how to use his voice, he caught Em with the SSLP essentially done already, this shit is getting ridiculous smh…

    35. Kool g rap is def top 10 even top 5. He pretty much started street rap with his different styles and paved the way for Wu tang, mobb deep, nas, biggie, nas, jay z etc… Eminem is top 20 at best.

    36. Kool g rap is def top 10 even top 5. He pretty much started street rap with his different styles and paved the way for Wu tang, mobb deep, nas, biggie, big pun, jay z etc… Eminem is top 20 at best.

    37. Doggystyle produced by Dre and his camp. Don’t know what the big deal is here. Dre brought out the best in Em according to Snoop, and the album Royce can’t live without was produced by Dre as well, so he clearly brought out the best in Snoop too. Nobody ever mentions Snoops 17 other albums…

    38. It’s not a diss at all to say that Doggystyle is better than any Eminem album. People are acting like he’s saying Doggystyle is better than Em’s whole catalog, which isn’t what he’s saying at all. Doggystyle is a top 3 debut album, up there with illmatic and Ready to Die.

      1. The Eminem Show > Reasonable Doubt > Doggystyle. I have maybe 3 favorite songs for Doggystyle, this is overrated shit

    39. What you morons don’t realize is that they’re acknowledging Em as the best rapper alive because they keep comparing their albums to his. Keep purposely leaving Em off their lists, etc. If Em was trash they wouldn’t even bring his name up. Em got real estate in Snoop’s brain and Royce’s. Not saying they’re not nice mc’s, it’s just subconsciously eating at them.

      1. Royce is better than Eminem and Snoop makes better music, and that is eating you subconsciously.

        1. lol Disagree Snoop never been great… Real talk lets keep it ? Dude projecting. Snoop would have never been shit without Dre, Dre made everyone sound good. Look what happened when snoop ass left Death Row and was without Dre for the longest. He went on to No Limit Trash ass music during that time. Snoop was made Snoop by Dre. Dre’s talent is on that level he a titan he made the pantheon Snoop just a salty looking down at Zeus cause he thought he was the chosen one. Dude permafried fam. Love him but he permafried

    40. Some people can’t read. Snoop clearly said and his list displays only O.G MC’s…EM isn’t a O.G all of Snoop favorite MC’s are from the 80′ and early 90s. Everybody list WILL NOT HAVE SHADY ON IT….some people list is what they relate to. We are not robots that like the same shit.

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