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.”
Fuck them. They’re conditional love is no longer accepted here… https://t.co/9YQ5NyvpTK
— Nickle (@Royceda59) August 3, 2020
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.
