No Eminem Or Slaughterhouse Features.
[above2]
Source: Instagram / @royceda59
The first thing we noticed about the track list for Layers was that there was no Eminem feature, no DJ Premier, nor any members of Slaughterhouse on the album. It’s all you. Was that an intentional move on your part?
R59: Yeah, because with the concept of Layers, it’s basically me peeling back all of the layers of all of the different groups and things that I’ve been involved in over the last 10 years. You know, I jumped in a whole bunch of groups. When I decided to form a group with Preem [Premier], that automatically made Preem’s production sacred to me, you know what I’m saying? I don’t wanna abuse that. I don’t want to have him do beats on my album and do a full project with him. It’s no different from me having him DJ for a solo Royce Da 5’9” show. If we’re going to be a group, we have to take it serious. We gotta be a group. We gotta make it right. I also wanted people to focus on me for this project and focus on this layer because I’m going to give you elements of everything that I’ve given you from these groups, but it’s about me right now.
Your creativity has no boundaries at this point in your career. How would you compare your creativity from when you’re working with DJ Premier and PRhyme, to when you’re working with Slaughterhouse, to working with Eminem, and then to focusing on yourself?
R59: Yeah, with me, there’s no limit. There’s no limit, nobody to clear anything with, nobody to bounce ideas off of. The process is a longer process. It’s definitely a longer process. It takes more time, but it’s just me and my thoughts. It’s me getting out a lot of things that I want to talk about. Nothing is inappropriate to speak about. It’s more free. Working in a group capacity is easier. It’s way easier because all I have to do is my part. You know, everybody is working off everybody. Think about it, your standard songs has two-three verses and hooks. If all I gotta do is a 16 and a hook, and move on, I mean, we can do an album in a week. We did the first Slaughterhouse album in six days.
[ad2]
