Joell Ortiz Expresses Regret Over Slaughterhouse Breakup For This Reason
Joell Ortiz has expressed his regret over the disbandment of Slaughterhouse due to internal friction amongst the group’s members.
On Monday (Oct. 27), Ortiz appeared with Sway Calloway on his SiriusXM show, Sway’s Universe, and spoke on the split between Joe Budden, Royce Da 5’9, KXNG Crooked, and himself.
According to Ortiz, he looks back fondly on his time with the lyrical quartet and has come to miss the camaraderie and brotherhood built amongst himself and his groupmates.
“When things ain’t right and you wish you could have them back, and I’m one of them people, because that was a special time for me,” the Brooklyn native told Calloway of his tenure with Slaughterhouse. “It didn’t pan out the way I wanted it, and so I felt a way.”
The emcee also owned up to his own mishandling of the tensions amongst his groupmates, which he believes was a byproduct of individual pursuits and egos.
“I wish I would’ve just told dudes like, ‘Yo guys, remember the special stuff?’” Ortiz admitted. “I know it’s business, and I know we all entrepreneurs trying to get to different bags, but I wish I would’ve just said, ‘Guys, we created something that was bigger than all of us individually and it happened organically.’”
“I should have been like, ‘Son, y’all wildin,’” he added of Budden, Royce, Crooked, and himself. “What are you doing? Forget about this, this and that. Let’s keep making fire music.’”
Formed in 2008, Slaughterhouse dropped their independently released self-titled debut album in 2009 before inking a deal with Eminem’s Shady Records and returning with their sophomore effort, Welcome to: Our House, in 2012.
Slaughterhouse’s third studio album, Glass House, was ultimately shelved following numerous delays, leading to the group’s departure from Shady Records.
The crew would later disband in 2018, with KXNG Crooked and Joell Ortiz teaming up for multiple collaborative projects, including the 2022 album, Rise & Fall of Slaughterhouse. That project led to a public fallout between the four members of the group during a livestream following its release.
Watch Joell Ortiz’s Sway’s Universe interview below.
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