In 2008 Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, and Royce da 59 gathered to contribute to a cut Joe Budden was working on. The cut, Slaughterhouse resulted in the formation of and the name of this hip-hop supergroup. Slaughterhouse was also the name given to the collectives debut released in August of 2009. Though the debut hit the #25 slot on the Billboard top 200 (and the #2 slot on the Top Rap Albums chart) Slaughterhouse has never been issued on vinyl. An oversite thats being corrected as of RSD Black Friday 2022.