Earlier this year Royce Da 5'9" warned that he was going to come for Yelawolf on an upcoming track, which he made good on with the recently released "Overcomer," featuring Westside Gunn.
Royce said in the interview, "He gonna know why. He gonna know why, for sure. I mean, It's a situation going on, especially in hip-hop, OK: We have all kinds of different people, but we have a type of person in particular. We have white people, white people who come into the business and they use the culture—which we got a very open culture, it's here for everybody to thrive."
He added, "We got some white people that come in and use that, and then go and do very evil things behind closed doors—very evil, racist things behind closed doors. They make comments and stuff like that. And I just got to a point in life where if I see it or if hear about it or if I'm involved in it in any type of way ... I have to start holding these people accountable. Because if you don't, the cycle just continues."
Royce addressed the situation on "Overcomer" with the lines, "Yelawolf this is your first and your last pass/I ain't gon' put it on blast, your punk ass know what this about/You think it's 'bout being loud or tryna be hostile/Till you get found face down on the ground outside of Kid Rock house/Though you a vulture pundit, I hope you get sober from this/Men lie, women lie, so do numbers."
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