Over the weekend VladTV caught up Slaughterhouse emcee Joell Ortiz as he linked with hip-hop heavyweights Erick Sermon and Sheek Louch to shoot the music video for their new single "Make Room." While there we spoke to him about the the new XXL Freshmen cover, the death of Queens rapper Chinx, and Chet Haze's N-word usage. "People probably gon' be mad at me, but if we can say it everybody can say it, to me," Ortiz admits.
"As long as he didn't mean n****r, it ain't offensive to me," he continues on saying, adding that he uses the word on a daily basis in conversation but never means anything by it. "I ain't gon' be the guy to start waving a flag when White people say it."
Joell - who is currently working on his upcoming album "Human" - also gave his two cents on Meek Mill's comments regarding rappers not going back to the hood after they make it big -- this Brooklyn native wholeheartedly disagrees. "As far as going back to the hood, I stay in the hood [so] I gotta disagree with that a little bit because I don't even feel like I go back to my hood -- I feel like I never left my hood," he stated. "I moved though, but I'm still hood, if that makes any sense."
Watch on as he speaks on the latest XXL Freshmen cover (which he's heard "is interesting" due to its "absence of lyricism," and find out how the legendary Erick Sermon made his day after placing Ortiz on his own personal hip-hop pedestal above.
"Make Room" is now available on iTunes.
