Royce Da 5’9” Turned Down $200K & Unlimited Beats From Dr. Dre

[Uncle Phil 36]

"I made the decision to sign with Tommy Boy instead of Dr. Dre back in the day. I don't really regret it, because by saying that I'm saying I regret where I am today, which couldn't be further from the truth. But sometimes I wonder what would have happened, what kind of music would I have been able to make? Because he was offering me a $200K budget and unlimited Dr. Dre beats, and Tommy Boy was just offering me $1 million. At 20-years-old the million sounded like such a more valuable deal, when in actuality it wasn't at all.

 

[Zero]

1 mill and a career as an underachieving underground rapper 200k budget with the very high possibility of being put on Dre's shelf despite being Em's boy

Dude never had a chance. Be a Slaughterhouse member brehs

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Lmao at "unlimited Dre beats"

 

[NormanConnors]

Dope interview

 

[Still FloW]

1 mill and a career as an underachieving underground rapper 200k budget with the very high possibility of being put on Dre's shelf despite being Em's boy

Dude never had a chance. Be a Slaughterhouse member brehs

BASICALLY THIS... both options were flawed from the start,

he picked the better one.. least he shaped a career for himself than sitting on dres shelf

 

[Mr. Negative]

Be Knoc'Tourn'Al P. Diddy ghostwriting checks

 

[Wallychamp]

Dope interview

 

[NV-ME]

his second act worked out for him. who knows what trouble he would have gotten into as a superstar alcoholic rapper

 

[BK The Great]

he probably wouldn't even drop on Aftermath since Em was getting all that exposure, he would've been on the shelf collecting dust which is the sad truth. he's still well respected for his pen game.

 

[beenz]

Lmao at "unlimited Dre beats"

eminem and 50 have trouble getting dre beats.

royce was smart for taking the $1M. given it took damn near 20 years between the last two dre albums, royce would still be waiting on those dre beats to this day if he would have went to aftermath.

 

[BK The Great]

eminem and 50 have trouble getting dre beats.

royce was smart for taking the $1M. given it took damn near 20 years between the last two dre albums, royce would still be waiting on those dre beats to this day if he would have went to aftermath.

i would say Em had that advantage to get more Dre beats than anybody else who was on the label, Relapse was basically all produced by him. i've never seen any album entirely produced by Dre unless it was Snoop's Doggystyle album or Dr. Dre's himself.

 

[Run Up]

1 mill and a career as an underachieving underground rapper 200k budget with the very high possibility of being put on Dre's shelf despite being Em's boy

Dude never had a chance. Be a Slaughterhouse member brehs

Sad but true bruh

 

[BK The Great]

back in the day them Dre beats was a staple of accomplishment knowing you working with one of the best producers in the game, i wonder how an Royce album with fully produced tracks by Dre would've been

 

[BK The Great]

this is what we would've gotten

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I figure most people know, but a 200k budget is far different from getting 200k.

And unlimited Dre beats doesn't mean shyt if you can't get a release date. Ask Rakim, Hitman, Raekwon, Joel Ortiz, Bishop Lamont, Stat Quo, Slim the Mobster, and a billion other solo acts that never got put on the shelf during their Aftermath tenures.

When Busta Rhymes was finally able to release The Big Bang in 2006 I was shocked. I was also shocked when Raekwon was able to use a few beats from Dre that he got during his time there when he finally released Linx 2.

What solo acts from Aftermath actually got used? Eminem, 50, Obie, Game, The Firm, Eve, and Truth Hurts? Can't be many more than that.

Wasn't Ice Cube signed to Aftermath at one point?