Royce
Da 5'9 ~ Make
It Count Part 2
One
1X Tyme : Could you explain exactly what happened with
your label situation?
Royce Da 5'9 : I was signed to Tommy Boy. I left Tommy Boy, then I started
f^&in with Game. I hooked up with Game, then Game got their label deal
through Columbia. So I was on Columbia/Game. Then the album didn’t come
out. Then Koch stepped up to the plate and said we’ll put the f----in
album out, we’re a smaller label; we’ll take the chance. So they
worked out a deal with Columbia, and they had some crazy ass point situation
going on between the two of them. Just juggling my life around! Koch started
acting unsure. I didn’t know if they thought it was gonna be more…I’m
at about 90,000 [units sold] for the Rock City album. It came out way, way,
way after it should have come out.
One 1X Tyme : So, what label are you on now?
Royce Da 5'9 : I’m still on Columbia.
One 1X Tyme : So how does Make It Count come in to play?
Royce Da 5'9 : Make It Count has nothing to do with
them. Make It Count is my sh-- that I’m starting out,
just me, off me learning. It’s starting off of the
ground right now, we don’t have a label deal, or nothing
like that. But we’re about to start putting our mix
tapes out through our own label. Then once we get the label
deal, it’ll be Make It Count, slash, whoever’s
lucky enough.
One 1X Tyme : Okay, so Death Is Certain is coming
out on Koch, then what?
Royce Da 5'9 : I’m a free agent. I’M A
FREE AGENT LABELS!
One 1X Tyme : Can you speak on the Funkmaster Flex situation as far as
beef?
Royce
Da 5'9 : I said “Funk Flex dropping bombs till
he damages thumbs/ Have clue going woooo/ till he damages
lungs…” I should have went in and punched it
over, cause it sounded like I said f--- flex! What do I
stand to gain by dissing Funkmaster Flex[or Dj Clue]!!
I met both of’em, and I speak whether they speak to
me or not. I respect them, I know that they’ve got
a position in the game, and they some ni---s that it’s
important to know. I’m smart, I’m not the f---in
dumb artist!
One 1X Tyme : Could you speak on the situation between
you and Kanye West?
Royce Da 5'9 : Kanye, I met in Miami. We was hanging
in Miami and developed a repoire. You know, when he’d
come to Detroit, he’d hit me, know’em sayin?
You know how when you cool with somebody and ya’ll
just happen to lose touch? Cell phone numbers change and
sh*t like that? We just hadn’t seen each other. Before
we parted ways he had sent me a beat cd. This is before
he was “Kanye”, ya’know’em sayin? He
sent me the beat cd and I did a song called Heartbeat.
I called and told him I two tracked it. I told him if he
could put it aside for me I’d get it. But at that
time my whole label situation was like in the air.
I
was just recording sh*t. But I didn’t have money to
give him at that time. He was like all right, plus he wanted
like 15,000, which I definitely didn’t have. I wasn’t
in the position to just walk into Sony and ask for that at
that time. So I was like, we working on some sh--, just hold
it for me. It’s one beat, ya’know’em sayin?
Kanye can make f---in 3 beats a day. That would be like me
crying over a verse! I can write a verse ya’know’em
sayin, I’m supposed to be a man.
So
anyway, I had the song for a long time. I sat on it, I kept
recording, and Game leaked it. I hadn’t spoke to Kanye
since. Then I read on the internet that he’s supposed
to have a problem with me, and he’s like I’ll never
give Royce a beat again. Which is fine. You know if you just
want to go to that extreme instead of getting at me, at least
asking what happened. If that’s the position he wants
to take, I can’t get mad at him for it. It is his beat;
I didn’t pay him for it. I probably f^&ked up some
money for him.
“KANYE
IF YOUR LISTENING, I APOLOGIZE!” but it is what it is,
the sh-- leaked out, what you want me to do? He sad he’ll
never do a beat for me again, I just hope he not one of them
mu-------as that come crawling back to me when he ain’t
selling beats to nobody, and my sh-- is big. I just think
that’s fake. I ain’t mad at him or nothing, he’s
still cool, if I seem it’s cordial. I just thought that
was kind of a cop out. I think that he could talk to me like
a man, instead of just assuming that I would go behind his
back and play him. I was sitting on the song for like 2 years.
Game leaked it, and I don’t even f--- wit Game no more!
Make It Count!
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