When Royce Da 5’9 isn’t participating in spirited debates on the Clubhouse app or arguing with Benzino, he’s talking about making music with a purpose. During a recent appearance on the Apple Music show The Message with Ebro Darden, the Bad Meets Evil MC opened up about a bevy of topics, including his Best Rap Album Grammy nomination for The Allegory.
According to Royce, he’s not exactly proud of the accomplishment but isn’t ashamed of it either. As he explained to Darden, “It feels cool. I’m not going to lie, man. I’m a little bit embarrassed because I’m one of those guys who was like, ‘Fuck the Grammys.’ And I’m totally like, ‘I’m fucking with the Grammys this year.’”
The Allegory — which received a 4.2 from HipHopDX in February 2020 — was nominated alongside Nas’ King Disease, Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist’s Alfredo and D Smoke’s Black Habits. It serves as Nickle Nine’s first Grammy nod.
Royce also explained he’s still trying to figured out who he is as an artist and insisted he’s not trying to be a celebrity.
” [That’s] extremely important because, until you get to that point, you can’t even answer the simple questions, like who do you work for?” he said. “Do you work for the people? Are you an employee of the people? Because me, personally, I just put paint on the canvas and hang the shit up. You can come in and look at it or you don’t have to come in and look at it.
“I’m OK with that. I’m not here to be famous. I have no good experiences associated with being famous.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Royce touched on Lil Wayne’s controversial comment about racism in which he said in 2016, “Racism does not exist.”
“Cash Money, they signed their deal in 1997,” he said. “So from then to now, they’ve walked billions of dollars into the Universal building. You can’t tell me that you feel like Universal has been protecting Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne, I heard come out of his mouth in an interview that racism doesn’t exist.
Nas, Royce Da 5'9 & Jay Electronica Among Those Nominated For Best Rap Album Grammy
“Being famous early for a Black person is crippling. My brother, you’re going to jail for the second time. The first time you went to prison, you went for a gun that wasn’t even on you. That’s racism Lil Wayne.”
Why does this guy want to be oppressed so badly?!!
There seems to be power in oppression.
I love Royce, but he is always looking for shit when it isnt there. It gets tiresome and then when real instances of oppression and racism occur people are more dismissive and casual about it. Yes, it is true, I cannot speak to how a black person feels in society and all that, but it works both ways, black people dont know what it is like being white. I’m not saying it is a good or bad thing, but it is different. The way white people act affects the lives and experiences of black people, but the same happens the other way. Only a small percentage of white people are racist and even smaller percent have control. So when you say black people get arrested or struggle because of racism, that diminishes the fuckery that white people who get arrested or denied opportunities go through and that turns white people against these social justice movements. People get power and they get corrupt, the people in power in the US are generally white. But it is not a white thing. There are black oppressors of their own people all throughout Africa, it’s a power thing not a race thing.
Please STFU with your minority thought ass
Your Black Lives Matter 400 years of bakery terrorist ass mad?? Ur mother didn’t take you out at the Planned Parenthood clinic?! LOLLL
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Congrats Royce’
Ya heard me
These crusty ass fools out here knowutimsayin
Yeah Royce racism exists, your the biggest racist on the planet! You better start drinking again, fuckin alkaholik piece of shit!