Days after Royce Da 5’9 responded to fellow artist Tyler, The Creator’s comments that the ShadyXV album was “fucking ASS,” Slaughterhouse lyricist Joell Ortiz has offered his own response.
During an interview with Vlad TV, Joell credited Tyler’s comments to the Ladera Heights, California rapper being “very opinionated.” He also revealed that he wasn’t bothered by Tyler’s comments, which were made via Twitter, and added that he thinks the ShadyXV album is “fantastic.”
“I heard about it. That’s like Tyler being Tyler, to be honest with you,” Joell said. “He’s very opinionated. And not everybody has to like everything…Opinion and more opinion. And it’s cool. Everybody knows Tyler, The Creator is very, very opinionated. So, I guess that’s how he feel. I of course disagree. I think the album’s fantastic. I think it’s very, very, very important for what’s going on right now. To give these kids something else other than what’s being shoved down their throat…We on there rapping our asses off. It’s a great album.”
Joell later spoke on Eminem during his interview after he was asked what he’s learned the most working with Eminem. He revealed that it’s Em’s extreme work ethic that he’s had the ability to learn from.
The Brooklyn, New York rapper then recalled being unable to defend Eminem when the musician’s race was brought up during barbershop arguments, since he was unfamiliar with Em’s work ethic at the time.
“Eminem works very, very, very hard…Put it like this, I’m from the projects,” he said. “I grew up in the projects, predominantly black, African American. Pre-music, pre-my career, the thing that was said in barber shops was ‘I mean he’s nice, but the fact that he’s white is why he’s winning.’ I’m being honest with you. That’s what gets said. I mean, it helps that he’s white. And I wasn’t able to defend him cause I didn’t know him. But now I know why. He’s who he is. He lives in the studio. He breathes it…Passionate is an understatement. This guy cares about it. He cares about rap. He cares about what he’s saying. He knows he has such an important voice. He wants to say something. And he says it well.”
Joell’s interview with Vlad TV can be found below.
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Joel & slaughterhouse please grow some balls & say fuck tyler, stop acting like pussies being neutral in assholes that just want to open their mouth to be heard, back in the days Tyler would it get his mouth broken for this “Opinion”, look what happen to Joe Budden when he spoke about Raekwon, that’s how you handle criticism
Lol… Plus tyler is garbage anyways
haha, ya seriously… what the fuck’s Tyler done lately. He “retired” from rap because his schtick was only gonna go so far… he had to quit while he was ahead before he started getting labeled ‘gimmicky’. And Earl and Domo are way better rappers anyway…
I have never seen so many Black and Brown people run to defend a white guy so much in my life. Yeah Em is great, but lets get real here. A lot of his success is due because he is white. The USA is a very racist country that loves to laud the efforts of Whites, especially in Black dominated areas (Amy Winehouse – hello). Em does not need to be defended. How about we speak on how these White artists (with the exception of Macklemore) have not said anything about the recent police brutality? They can appropriate our music, but not support the causes that go along with it.
Well, its true that a lot of his success is due to him being white. He even admits to knowing that himself… but he is also one of the best to ever do it. Also, I don’t know why people look to these celebrities to be the faces of protest or whatnot. Sure, they have a huge audience that they could influence to join the fight against whatever needs to be fought, but the PEOPLE themselves need to already feel like fighting for what they believe in. They shouldn’t have to look for celebrities to do it. These people are not political figures. They are entertainers. And most of all, they are people too… not robots. Let them decide how they want to do things when it comes to that.
Amen to everything Realist said above. And I personally loved Shady XV. Psychopath Killer and Twisted were magic, totally new and totally fresh. Fine Line was genuine Marshall Mathers and literally brought me to tears. Vegas was some crazy good rapping flow. Loved Detroit vs Everybody. Awesome album!
Great great post ninja. These bums are worried about the wrong shit. Eminem is winning, he doesn’t need his ass kissed even more.
Didn’t Odd Future tour with Em? That’s why they won’t diss Tyler – they know him and obviously fuck with him and his crew.
And as for the whole-success-cos-he’s-white thing, go listen/read the lyrics to Em’s second verse on White America.
shady xv was lyrically a banger..best effort em put out since TES.
Naw, son the album was garbage ass! Ortiz saying the doing what the game needs lyrical wise I can agree production wise I cannot…album was littered with straight boo boo tracks….a negro could not finish ONE song! Of course Ortiz would say the album is FANTASTIC…he made the album…
The highlights on Shady XV are dope as fuck I don’t care what anybody say.
Shady XV sucked. only good songs are psycopath killer, down, fine line, Det vs everybody, and till its gone. that label is done. they need a franchise player or theyre gonna sink worse then the titanic. Eminems moving his career into the point where Dre was before he signed em…… basically Em needs to become “Dre in 98” and find his own “97 underground Eminem” to resurrect Shady Recs
Thats why Shady records lost their best A&R last year to Atlantic records cuz he knows theyre a sinking ship outta their lack of building new stars or even attempting to or just stupidity.
Shady was complete dogshit– even the mediocre Re-Up was better– and somewhere along the line Joell became an arrogant whiny fuck. Granted, if my solo career was straight ass like Joell’s has been since “The Brick” I’d never take my tongue out of Em’s ass but it doesn’t mean the rest of us should listen. Joell DOES have sexxxy feet but in 2014, going into 2015, that’s ALL he has left.
Nigga you gay referring another man feet as sexy.
One of the best 2014 albums, hands down.
I thought Em’s verse on “Vegas” was one of the sickest flows ever…. the album as a whole wasn’t like instant classic or anything, but there were definitely some bangers.
Em’s choice of beats have always been kinda ‘eh’ unless Dre or even Bass Bros were behind them. I dunno why, his rhymes are SO fuckin flawless and airtight, you’d think he’d apply the same thinking to his production choices…
True about his weak ass choice in beats. However “airtight” and “flawless” flows? Fuck no. I remember reading an article a few years back where Em was complaining about his older songs from the “Slim Shady LP” and saying how he used to always be a little slower or faster than the beat and he thought it ruined the songs. Apparently that perfectionist attitude doesn’t exist in him anymore cuz these days he tries to rap so fucking fast it’s god awful. His verse on “Psychopath Killer” was painful. He sounded like he was freestyling without a beat because he completely ignored the beat and was just rambling. Completely ruined an otherwise great song with a good beat. The other guys were on point. Em just wants to freestyle aimlessly. Same thing with the Bad Meets Evil album, Royce killed Em on almost every track.
The only black guy named Tyler ive ever heard of… Grew up around a bunch of white kids!!!
I’m tired of hearing everyone that works with Em say how passionate he is about rap. That may be so but half the time he doesn’t practice what he preaches. He’s made a shit ton of pop garbage and has attempted to sing multiple times now. He features more pop singers on his tracks now than rappers. He keeps trying to play both sides and it’s fuckin tacky.
Interscope are probably the one to blame for that. And the fact that EM will do anything they and his fattass manager ask of him.
I agree he used to be the one dissing pop stars hard now he’s collabed with pink, christina aguilera, nicki minaj, big sean n rihanna like 3 times its fucking whack
EVERY PUSSY BENEATH AND ABOVE THIS COMMENT DISSING ANNNNNYYYY MUSICAL RELEASE THAT IS LYRICALLY INCLINED IN AAANNNNYYYYY WAY NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO WATCH DEGR-ASSY OR FUCKIN MR ROGERS OR SOME SHIT YOU PUSSIES…
UNTIL ANNNNNYYYYY OF U FUCKS CAN EVEN WRITE 1 MUCH LESS 8 OF ANYTHING CREATIVE OR RELEVANT OR THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURE SHOULD GO SUCK YOUR YUPPY FUCK BUTT CUNT FACE MOTHERS TIT AND LEAVE HIPHOP CONVERSATIONS TO THE FOLKS THAT APPRECIATE THE CULTURE, AND KEEPING IT ALIVE… MUSIC IS MUSIC YOU FUCKING KNOW IT ALLS. AFRICA BAMBAATTA TO PHARCYDE USED MELODIES AND “SINGING” IN THEIR RECORDS SO ALL THE “I KNOW HIPHOP BUT WANNA BITCH BCZ OF MUSICALITY” ASS NIGGAS, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND LEARN ABOUT THE CRAFT YOU SPEAK OF B4 OPENING YOUR CUNT MOUTHS.
HIPHOP
1 MUCH LESS 8 BARS*
Album is straight dogshit, lots of fast rap about nothing over ass beats and, as if Joell couldn’t embarrass himself more… now this. What a fucking clown, I guess that’s why they call it LAUGHTERHOUSE