Royce da 5'9" Talks Eminem, Sobriety, Slaughterhouse, DJ Premier

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper, songwriter, producer, and one of your favorite emcee's favorite emcees -- ROYCE DA 5'9". The deep level of mutual respect is clear as Talib opens up by telling Royce how much his work has impacted him and his own evolution as an lyricist. Then show kicks off with talk about the history of Detroit hip hop and the infamous Hip Hop Shop. They go on to discuss and dissect Royce's song 'Tabernacle', Royce's path to sobriety, where he speaks to if he feels he's become a better artist because of it. Royce also talks about his longtime friendship with his manager Kino, he answers the question of if he regrets not signing on with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records. They discuss Royce's long-time friendship with Eminem, and he's asked if there's anything he hasn't shared about Em, and if he thinks it's true that their styles mirror each other, he shares how he feels about the old tapes of Em disrespecting black women, they discuss Em owning up to white privilege and Royce answers to why he felt the need to speak out against Lord Jamar and his public criticism of Em's relevance to the culture.

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0:00.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to be came see the MCO
0:03.4	I love the fact that y'all checking out the people's party and showing us a lot of love
0:07.2	You know what we do we bringing you all the live guests we bringing you the best podcasts on the internet
0:12.2	Just make sure you subscribe and leave a review people's party. Tell it quality. Let's go
0:30.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to says to people's party. I'm still all remote location and quarantine
0:35.9	We still in lockdown. I'm still in the people's party trap house and we still got jazz milleena place to be give it up for my lovely co-host
0:43.0	Jazz mille. What's up?
0:46.0	I'm feeling good. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Welcome to the people's party this guest today
0:52.4	I think is going to be a treat for people who like
0:55.7	Real real real lyricism and dedication to hip-hop music
0:59.8	This is the type of guest that we built this show around
1:03.1	You know what makes me happy about doing people's party? I get to talk to people and
1:07.0	Have conversations that I would have in my normal life
1:11.1	But I get to have it for the masses and
1:14.2	We get to do deep dives and shout out to combat jack
1:18.7	Shout out to Gil Noble shout out to the people we modeled the show after because I feel like I want the level of this show
1:25.3	to be on the level of
1:27.9	Work that this next guest does that he puts into his music
1:31.7	Today we have wanted to undisputed best rappers ever truly your favorite rappers favor rapper
1:37.8	He rose to fame as part of bad meets evil with M&M his most recent recent record allegory has a track called
1:45.3	I don't age for very good reason this man keeps getting better and better and better as studying his craft and master in his craft
1:52.5	He's one of my favorite people one of my favorite MCs
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