Cyrus Langhorne
Slaughterhouse’s Royce Da 5’9 can’t and won’t let people try to belittle Eminem’s epic BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. Nickel has come forward to speak up in his longtime pal’s defense.
Royce took to Instagram this week to defend Em’s freestyle and question
“Why do y’all care who was in the background of the f*cking cypher? Why do y’all care that it was black people in the background of the cypher? What do you think n*ggas? We was casted? You think it’s some type of imaging that was put together by like some f*cking white force? Like Eminem is my f*cking friend, man. He’s been my friend since ’97. I support everything that he does. Just like he supports everything that I do. And I hope you support everything your friends do and they support you. If you don’t, that’s your f*cking problem. But he got up there and used his own platform. What’d you think my black a** was supposed do? Come out the background and grab the mic? ‘Give me this mic white boy, I’m the one that’s supposed to be doing this. I’m the black one.’ It don’t work like that. It’s a thing called protocol that keeps me from doing that. You want to know how I feel about the state of things, go listen to my f*cking albums. And I’m proud to call Em my friend. And if you got a problem with me supporting my friend, you can kiss my a**. Alright?”
A few days ago, rap veteran Redman came to Em’s defense over the politically-driven freestyle.
“He has power and he used his power on that BET cypher to make a statement for us as well as a people, as all of us as a people, but especially for us. Everyone, anyone should respect that man for that because he didn’t have to do it. It’s not even many of us that wouldn’t step out the box and did what he did and took that opportunity to used that platform on the BET cypher to make a motherf*cking statement.” (BET)
Recently, Internet duo Diamond and Silk clapped back at Em’s freestyle.
Vloggers Diamond And Silk issued a scathing response to rapper Eminem after he demanded fans choose between him and President Trump in a prerecorded video played at the BET Awards. Diamond And Silk said in their response that “when you come for President Trump, we are going to come for you.” The pair say in their response video, “Trump’s your president, so get over it.” (Conservative Fighters)
After the BET freestyle aired, hip-hop artists J. Cole and 50 Cent came through to applaud Em.
Whoa. Rap God. @Eminem thank you. Potentttt
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) October 11, 2017
From the archives for the win! #45 gonna hate this clip praising Eminem! pic.twitter.com/HZEYBsRNSq
— Resist Programming 🛰 (@RzstProgramming) October 11, 2017
Damn wait til the internet find this
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) October 11, 2017
