Slaughterhouse — Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, KXNG Crooked and Royce Da 5’9 — formed in 2008 and dropped two studio albums. Their self-titled debut arrived in 2009 and Welcome To: Our House was released three years later. In April 2018, KXNG Crooked announced via Instagram he was leaving Slaughterhouse but insisted there were no hard feelings about his departure, rather it was “all love.”
The Slaughterhouse name has been a topic of contention in recent weeks after Crooked and Ortiz announced a new project called The Rise And Fall Of Slaughterhouse, a follow-up to 2020’s H.A.R.D. EP. Both Royce and Budden immediately showed their disapproval of the project, with the podcast writing a simple “SMH” in Royce’s post about it.
During a recent episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast, Crooked opened up about the group’s demise and argued Royce wasn’t being honest about what went down.
“Put yourself in the fans shoes for a minute,” he says in the clip. “You’ve been waiting on one of your favourite groups in the world to drop an album for 10 years. Now behind the scenes, I’ve been taking flights to New York, go talk to Paul Rosenberg. I’ve been taking flights to Detroit, talking to Em, talking to Royce, how can we put this back together? It’s not happened in 10 years. So you’re telling me you want me to wait again and then I saw something where Royce said that we weren’t waiting on anybody… that’s a lie.
“So I need to address all this stuff because whenever they say that I just come back with the truth. You can attack my character my integrity, you could try to assassinate it and say that I’m a liar and I’m doing this for money and all that shit.”
KXNG Crooked also suggested Budden was to blame for the hold up on new music from the group, explaining he was already signed to another label when Slaughterhouse got their deal with Shady Records.
“We started Slaughterhouse in the early days waiting on Joe [Budden],” he continued. “When we first got our deal with Shady, we had a song called ‘Session One’ on one of Em’s projects. He was trying to put the group on one of his projects. I think it was a bonus cut or something on the albums. So we did ‘Session One,’ and all the Slaughterhouse fans know Joe Budden isn’t on ‘Session One.’
“Joe was signed to another label and caught up in some paperwork. They called over to Shady like, ‘Hey we have him under contract, you have to get a clearance from us to have him appear on the song.’ All of us supposedly free agents to sign this deal with Shady, and come to find out Joe was on the paperwork, he said that they forged his signature and that wasn’t him. The group was put on the shelf for a minute while he was fighting amalgam digital label in court, and we were waiting on Joe because we couldn’t move forward, and that took months.”
Royce Da 5’9 & Joe Budden Show Disapproval For Joell Ortiz & KXNG Crooked New 'Slaughterhouse’
Budden is certainly salty about the impending project from Crooked and Ortiz. During an hour-long argument captured on Instagram Live earlier this month, Budden remarked he wished nothing but the best for Ortiz. But when Ortiz asked him the check out the upcoming album, he snapped, “Joell, that album can suck my dick, are you kidding me? You want people to listen to this clown show?”
Ortiz fired back, “N-gga, suck MY dick! Don’t go there, don’t do that,” then abandoned the Live altogether. Budden and Royce are obviously opposed to the duo using the Slaughterhouse name, but it doesn’t look like that’s doing much to stop Ortiz and Crooked from moving forward. Check out Royce’s gripes below.
Man Joe and them some clowns. Royce is a bum. Move on without them
I don’t see no reason Crooked would lie and to be honest Crooked and Ortiz are way more credible than Royce and Budden.
Crooked did.it for clout and money because he can’t sell records and he’s not relevant without the slaughterhouse name just like his career before slaughter house
You say that as if royce or joe could sell records by themselves lol
Crook has a shit load of.fans.and has better music then any of your favorite rappers, and is way realer then your fake little Hollywood sell out clowns
You’re on drugs. If you think crook and joell are more credible than Joe and Royce put together
Joe has 0 credibility in rap… hes a podcaster that cant even keep
His podcast together
Once someone is caught in a lie (buddens/royce) that is generally the red flag you need to know to be mindful of the situation, because your being lied too…
Crook loudly quit the group in 2018
so why all the whining ?That album is terrible
Your a Gen z kid.i assume? Nothing Crook puts out is wack sorry
I sense Joe Budden is a bitch, but even before this article.
I HATE THIS SIT WENT DOWN LIKE THIS. ALL THESE DUDES ARE NICE. I’MA FAN OF ALL OF THEM. THERE WAS POTENTIAL FOR SOME DOPE ASS MUSIC FROM THEM AS A GROUP IF THEY CULD HAVE EVER GOTTEN ON THE SAME PAGE.SHAME
^SHIT
Failed relationships with women + failed business deals + failed record deals + failed relationship with other rappers and Eminem + failed podcast with the two other hosts. Joe Budden is the single largest common denominator, go figure. And I’m a HUGE Joe Budden fan.
Right there with you. Social Media and Podcasting made it hard to be a Joe Budden fan. The Em shit showed he didn’t care about Slaughterhouse. Now, this has spiraled out of control…sad to see. The fucked up part is that out of all 4 I’ve only heard one say “I played my part in the downfall” and that’s Crooked I talking about drinking. Everyone else is completely innocent and that’s how you know it’s not likely to be fixed.
I agree with Prezz, Crooked and Joel never gossip like Joe and Royce, so when they do day some shit, you can’t act like its bullshit.
I would agree with Royce and Budden if it was released as a Slaughterhouse album. It isn’t though. They are telling a story. From what I listened to in the album I could see why Royce and Budden reacted the way they did. What happened to “my truth”? Guess it only matters when it is a “truth” you want to hear.
D12. Slaughterhouse. The house that Shady built is about as credible as Dr Dre’s. New industry rule. Do you and don’t come up off the strength of successful artists.
They had a short but good run, we got some good stuff out of them all together. I never bought into Joe Budden being fully invested in the group. Ortiz and Crooked i always came off as the low maintenance less needy members in the group. I rock all of their music as solo artist, so hopefully they can all come together and put beside the nonsense.
Jesus christ what a bunch of petty assholes. who the fuck cares about this?
royce and burden seem like a couple of bitches. royce with his pussy ass woke bullshit and burden with his grandma shit? get the fuck outta here
I meant budden dawg
Imagine a 40 year old man blaming another man for his situation. Everyone is a solo act Crook and Joell could’ve been a duo 10 years ago. Did you see Wu-Tang members crying about another album? Rae Ghost and Meth got it popping on their own.
Actually, Wu Tang has a storied history of infighting.
Most of their fighting was over RZA’s leadership but they didn’t let that stop them. They kept doing features and dropped projects whenever they could. These 2 still had freedom to do whatever outside of the group. Crook’s problem was that terrible deal he signed with Death Row that kept him shelved during his prime – why isn’t he calling out Suge instead?
The only thing I know is, when they where touring Royce got so drunk that he sucked buddens dick when he was sleeping! That why budden don’t want to be in the group anymore and that’s why Royce don’t want it without Joe!
Where do you get that info?
That’s what Joel addresses “when tour was over the show was done” on the new slaughterhouse album! That’s fuckt up man, now I understand why Royce looked so gay on the livestream!
Big fan but all I know is that since I’ve been checking him…every partnership Budden is involved in goes to shit. It can’t be everybody else.