You first heard of Royce Da 5’9″ back in 1999 on a collaboration with Eminem called “Bad Meets Evil”. Now you’ll hear of the first time Eminem and Royce collided – to a pretty comical introduction. Hit the jump.
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During an interview with XXL, Royce opened up about how his manager, Kino, introduced the two.
“Kino was like, ‘Let me introduce you. This is Eminem. So I was like, ‘Waddup, man? How you doing? I like your shit.’ And he was like, Dog. Did you just say, “I’m iller than standing in front of a gorilla holding a banana?”‘ [Laughs] That’s a line that I said when I was on stage, I said it a cappella. I was on my Canibus shit back then [laughs]. So I was like ‘Yeah’ and he was like, ‘Yo, man, that’s fucking ill.’ I was like, ‘Thanks, man.’”
Of course Em would introduce himself like that lol. The two would go on to re-record their first collab “Bad Meets Evil” and have it on Eminem’s classic Slim Shady LP once he signed with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label. The two remain a tight-knit relationship even though falling out for a few years before burying the hatchet in 2008.
And of course you know of Slaughterhouse and the rest is history.
