Eminem Says "Renegade" Originally Featured Royce Da 5'9

Eminem recently said the track, Renegade which appeared on Jay-z's Blueprint album in 2001 originally featured Royce Da 5'9. In case you don't know, eminem handled the production of the track. Let me let y'all read the news before i say more of what i got.

In 2001, Jay-Z released “Renegade” featuring Eminem off of The Blueprint, serving as one of the standout cuts from the album. But what most listeners may not know is that the record was originally a collaboration between him and Slaughterhouse member Royce Da 5’9”.

Em, who produced the cut, recorded the track with Nickel Nine before passing it off to Jay. “That record was actually made... We were starting to make that record. It was a situation where Jay had called me and I had another record that I wanted to present to him,” he told MTV News’ Sway. “At the time, we were recording on two-inch reels. What happened was there was a beat that I had an idea for me and Jay to do a song together. But the reel with the beat on it was in L.A., and I was in Detroit and Jay was on a deadline.”

Instead of whipping up a new beat, Em took out Royce’s verse to make room for Jay. “I kind of approached Jay like, ‘Yo what about this record? I already have this, it’s already here.’ And he was working a deadline. He was working on a real short window of time to get it done, so that was kind of how that record came about,” he continued. “I actually sent him the track and he put his verses on there and sent it back and I mixed it.”

Em and Royce are currently prepping the release of their collaboration as Bad Meets Evil titled Hell: The Sequel, dropping June 14th.

Men!!! So, i guess this explains why jay sounded so out of place on that track. One thing, they were not in the studio together, and jay also had a deadline to meet...also add the fact that em had already completed the track with someone else on it. Jay would have waited for the other track or just totally forgotten about the collabo all together...If he had, Nas wouldn't have said- "eminem murdered you on your own track"...and it would not have caused a whole lot of people to shift their focus their. Because, truly, nobody was saying anything about that till nas dropped "ether". Jay-Z dropped blueprint in September 2001, and nas dropped ether in December.


But if it had happened that way, renegade would have just been another track, because "eminem featuring royce da 5'9" cannot be as big a statement as "eminem featuring jay-z".