Beef is a funny thing in Hip Hop. One minute everything is all hunky dory, and the next, well, it's not. Usually a series of events in and out of music lead to beef being publicised to fans and critics alike, however occasionally it literally comes out of nowhere. This was the case when last year Royce Da 5'9" spit the following bars on his group Slaughterhouse's track "Offshore", taken from their House Rules mixtape:

"While we was doing the album the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League manager was like:
"Them niggas album ain't never coming out, them niggas don't even like each other"/ Well fuck the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League manager/ I would tell you to tell him I said it but talk behind backs is for amateurs/ Bitches, fake niggas, and punks/ I don't know it all I just know how to ball and go out and get eight figures in chunks."

Coming out of the blue - in the fans eyes anyway - questions started circulating as to what may have provoked this. 

Assuring folks that there is, and never was, any beef between the two parties, Rook, one third of the Grammy Award-winning production team J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, took some time out from his busy schedule prepping the group's Lazy Americanz side project to explain what actually happened to force Royce to spit that now infamous line and how he reacted when he first heard it. Not only that, Rook explains how Royce's manager and closest friend Kino then became both Lazy Americanz and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's co-manager.

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Rook talks Royce Da 5'9's "F*ck the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's manager" line. [#illSclusive]

Invited to speak on various topics regarding the behind the scenes of the music industry, ill Will sat down with Special K of The Universal Show on Buzz Radio (103.8FM) this past Sunday in London. Talking about becoming a journalist and the artists he's worked with, Will spoke on publishing, how different the journalism game is now that there's social media, and this year's MOBO Awards. Also offering advice to youngsters wanting to get into the game, Special K asked the right questions and knowledge was dropped left, right and centre.

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