Watch: Royce Da 5’9 Reveals How His Dad Thought Dr. Dre Was Actually A Medical Doctor

Royce Da 5’9 Reveals How His Dad Thought Dr. Dre Was Actually A Medical Doctor! Royce Da 5’9 is most certainly at the peak of his career with The Allegory having earned a nomination for Best Rap Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. This is no mean feat especially for an artist who was once questioned whether he could make it in Hip Hop by his Dad. In a recent appearance on HipHopDX‘s Hack3d series, the Detroit MC was surprised by his father, Greg, when he told a story about the time when Dr. Dre rang the family’s house phone and he mistook the mega producer for being an actual doctor.

“I remember when I told him, ‘You’ve got a phone call,’” his dad said. “I asked him what was wrong with him. He’s like, ‘What do you mean?’ I said, ‘You’ve got a phone call from your doctor.’ He said, ‘The doctor?’ I said, ‘Yeah, somebody named Dr. Dre.’ By the time he got out the shower, I heard all the slipping and sliding and falling into the toilet and on the floor trying to get to the phone, right. I didn’t know who Dr. Dre was and once I’d found out who Dr. Dre was I was like, ‘OK, well my son is onto something.’ Somebody recognizes him for what he is because, at that point, I wasn’t quite sure.”

He continued, “I knew he had affiliations and ties to some real big people, Eminem being one of them, a good friend of his. Marshall’s been to the house along with Paul Rosenberg and stuff, so we were familiar with him. But a call from Dr. Dre, that’s good.”

Royce explained further that the surprise call came about after Eminem played Dr. Dre his music for the first time and impressed him enough to want to connect during the making of his 2001 album.

“Marshall was staying out there,” he said. “I sent my demo out to Marshall and I told Marshall that I had been in New York and I had been taking meetings in New York. I was entertaining a deal with Hurby Luv Bug, I signed a deal with Hurby Luv Bug. Marshall was like, ‘Let me tell you something Royce. You ain’t signing no deal with no Hurby Luv Bug.’ So he told me to send a CD of my music out there. He played it for Dre but didn’t tell me he played it for Dre. Instead of just calling me and saying, ‘Royce, I played Dre your stuff, he love it, I’ma link you all up so y’all can talk,’ he just let Dre call me.

“I was sitting in the room and my dad came in and he was like, ‘Ryan, there’s a Dr. Dre on the phone for you?’ I was like, ‘What?’ Got on the phone, I’m like, ‘Hello?’ He’s like, ‘Yo what’s up, it’s Dre.’ Sounded exactly like that, ‘Yo what’s up, it’s Dre. Marshall played me your stuff, I like what you’re doing. I want to know if you’re interested in coming out here and messing with us man, we working on the album called The Chronic [2001].’ As if I didn’t know what The Chronic was. So he just asked me would I be interested in coming out there, I told him, ‘Hell yeah.’ He put me on a plane, I went out there, that was my first time seeing a mansion.”

He added, “First time being around a big celebrity like that, my first time just even being around anybody going through the album process that was my first time. I took a lot from that whole experience.”

Watch the interview in the clip below;