Royce Da 5’9 about to take on a new accomplice in the hip-hop world with his new group LP “PRhyme” with DJ Premier. But don’t think that this is the second coming of Gang Starr—far from it. Instead, Royce and DJ Premier are setting out to craft a new musical landscape, with their first full-length LP, announced earlier today, crafted entirely out of Adrian Younge samples.They announced that “PRhyme” will have featurings from Jay Electronica, Common, Mac Miller, Ab-Soul, Killer Mike, ScHoolboy Q, Dwele, and Slaughterhouse. “I want people to appreciate the fact that we didn’t compromise in lieu of the environment. In order to try to change the way that people digest music, we had to take a leap of faith,” Royce says in a statement.The project will also be crafted with only samples from Adrian Younge’s catalog, an approach Premier has never made in his career. “I’ve never sampled just one artist, I’m known for my reputation and my creativity,” he says. “I wanted it to be my traditional thing where I sample everything I find, but I am really proud how the project came out and Royce is one hell of a pusher.”
In an recent interview XXLMagazine asked about 15th anniversary of Shady Records, and on Royce’s long association with the labeland about the Shady XV project..
Royce said “I don’t know much about it. The way that they roll things out over there they kind of keep everything kinda tight lipped. They’re a lot like Apple over there. I know that there’s a piece of work that they’re putting out, they’re calling it a compilation, and there’s gonna be music that was released before to commemorate that first release, and then there’s gonna be new music. That’s all I know.”
On asked about Paul Rosenberg told the other day that there’s gonna be new Bad Meets Evil material as well as new Slaughterhouse material. Have you been working with Em recently…
Royce Da 5’9 Said “Yes, I have been working with Em. There’s gonna be a wide mixture; I think everything is supposed to tie in to exactly what the label embodies, which is Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf, Bad Meets Evil, D12, and I think that’s it.”
XXL also asked him about Going back to battle rap. What goes through his mind when he was battling..
Royce says “I mean, it depends. When I was a kid—when I was 18, 19 years old—not really nothin’. Not really nothin’. It’s just like fighting with me. And I can only speak for myself, I can’t tell you what’s going on in the minds of some of these other guys out here. But with me, you know, it was just like fighting. I’ve always been a competitive, full contact kind of guy. And I never really cared about losing. Wouldn’t have been a big deal to me to lose, and I think that’s why I won so much, because that’s what makes you dangerous. Mentally, you can’t be broken, ’cause there’s nothing there to break. There’s nothing at stake. You’re just fighting. You’re runnin’ into danger, basically, because once you start caring about a bunch of stuff, that’s when your brain starts to work against you. So with me, nothing really was going through my mind, I would just be in there and having fun with it.”
