Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, KXNG Crooked and Royce Da 5’9 — formed in 2008 and dropped two studio albums. Their self-titled debut arrived in 2009 and Welcome To: Our House was released three years later. In April 2018, KXNG Crooked announced via Instagram he was leaving Slaughterhouse but insisted there were no hard feelings about his departure, rather it was “all love.”
The Slaughterhouse name has been a topic of contention in recent weeks after Crooked I and Joell announced a new project called “The Rise And Fall Of Slaughterhouse” a follow-up to 2020’s H.A.R.D. EP. Both Royce and Budden immediately showed their disapproval of the project, with the podcast writing a simple “SMH”.
During a recent episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast, Crooked opened up about the group’s demise and argued Royce wasn’t being honest about what went down.
“Put yourself in the fans shoes for a minute,” he says in the clip. “You’ve been waiting on one of your favorite groups in the world to drop an album for 10 years. Now behind the scenes, I’ve been taking flights to New York, go talk to Paul Rosenberg. I’ve been taking flights to Detroit, talking to Em, talking to Royce, how can we put this back together? It’s not happened in 10 years. So you’re telling me you want me to wait again and then I saw something where Royce said that we weren’t waiting on anybody… that’s a lie.
“So I need to address all this stuff because whenever they say that I just come back with the truth. You can attack my character my integrity, you could try to assassinate it and say that I’m a liar and I’m doing this for money and all that shit.” Check out the full interview below and give your thoughts in the comments.