Last month, Eminem and Shady Records barraged the public with information about their upcoming two-disc project Shady XV, but since that quick promotional spree we have not gotten any new details on the package, due in late November.
Royce da 5'9" — best known as Em's other half in Bad Meets Evil — is part of the release, but he does not even know what is going on. At least, that is what he told XXL in a recent sit-down interview.
"I don't know much about it," Royce said. "The way that they roll things out over there, they kind of keep everything kinda tight-lipped. They're a lot like Apple over there. I know that there's a piece of work that they're putting out, they're calling it a compilation and there's gonna be music that was released before to commemorate that first release, and then there's gonna be new music. That's all I know."
One of the discs will be a greatest hits release chronicling the 15-year history of the label, which produced hits such as 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Eminem's "Lose Yourself." The other will be new material from the label's roster of rap artists.
"Yes, I have been working with Em," Royce said. "There's gonna be a wide mixtur. I think everything is supposed to tie in to exactly what the label embodies, which is Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf, Bad Meets Evil, D12, and I think that's it."
Royce also spoke about the new album he's working on with DJ Premier, but he kept going back to previous Shady Records releases.
"Yo, there's never been anything more organic in my career besides Slaughterhouse and Bad Meets Evil," he said. "It's kinda like, Bad Meets Evil started from a song, me and Em were just close friends, it made sense. Slaughterhouse house was some wild ... Me and Joe was beefin', we decided we was gonna work. But then he called me the day that my daughter was born, I'm sittin' in the hospital, I ran to the studio to do the verse for him, and then the fans just kinda made us a group. It feels the exact same way. That's how I know it's right."
