Crooked I “How Slaughter House Came About”
TSS: How did Slaughterhouse come about?
Crooked I: Man, it’s a kid named Nino Bless, dope emcee from Brooklyn. Joe was working on his record Halfway House, I think, so he’s in a conversation with Joe. It’s funny ‘cause he told Joe, “Look man, you ain’t up on Crooked? You ain’t banging his shit?” Joe’s like, “Man, I don’t listen to Crooked.” You know how Joe is—“I don’t listen to Crooked. Send me some music.” So Nino takes it on himself and sent him like 6 or 7 of my Weeklies. Joey’s like, “Yo, can you call that nigga?” (Laughs). “I gotta wrap this song up quick. Man, how quick does he work in?” At that point, me and Nino was just working so he was like, “Yo, dude will send them verses back to you the next day or the same day.” He sent me the beat and I jumped on it.
As I’m recording the song for that, a cat from out here calls me and he’s like, “Yo, I got this website. I wanna know, can you do a song with Royce. I was thinking you, Royce, and Budden.” And I’m like, “Yo, this is odd. I’m just doing a song right now with Royce and Budden on it.” So, after we knock the song out or whatever, the response was crazy because each of us had our own Internet fanbase. Joe has is, Royce has is, I got mine, Ortiz has his and Nino has his. It kinda shut the Internet down for a minute, you know. We saw that and said, “Yo, let’s do another joint.” So, I flew out here and we recorded “Onslaught” at Red Spyder’s studio and it was magic.
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