PRhyme‘s self-titled debut was, by all accounts, a classic. Subsequently, the duo — Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9 and legendary producer DJ Premier — earned a nod for Album Of The Year in the 2014 HipHopDX Year-End Awards. The project was a resurrection of ’90s boom-bap and featured an incredible supporting cast as well as beats entirely crafted using Adrian Younge samples.
While it was not the first time the two had collaborated, the project did have an air of organic finality about it, leaving any hope for a sequel out of the conversation — until last month. During an interview with Billboard, Preemo slyly stated the existence of a follow-up. “’PRhyme 2′ is almost done,” he said. “We still have to mix … we still got to get all the features locked down.”
A post on Instagram by Royce, which also tags composer Antman Wonder — a frequent DJ Premier collaborator — proves the two are currently back at it. “I don’t like bothering @djpremier when he gets in his zones,” wrote Royce, brandishing the post with the hashtag #PRhyme2.
While Preemo suggested the project was far along, a post less than 24 hours ago was captioned with “Day one.” This does, however, illustrate that Royce and Preemo are at least in a Detroit studio making it happen.
They followed the release of the original self-titled gem with the single “Highs & Lows” featuring MF DOOM, and a deluxe version of PRhyme that included cameos from The Roots, Black Thought, Joey Bada$$ and Logic. The two have worked together since, notably on “Black History” off of Royce’s Tabernacle: Trust The Shooter, which was ranked “Best Mixtape” in the 2016 HipHopDX Year End Awards.
Individually, Royce is allegedly working on the upcoming Book of Ryan LP, which has been floating around for over a year, while still actively promoting his last project, Layers. Preemo’s schedule is hectic, too. He’s serving as executive music producer for the hit series The Breaks, launching a 16-city tour with his The BADDER Band later this month, and promoting other collaborations like Which Way Iz West with MC Eiht.
Check out the posts about PRhyme 2 above.
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How come everything is a classic? The album was good, great even, but not classic. I wouldn’t even say it’s better than Death is Certain or a lot of Premos early work
You’re right. That word is tossed around way too much. PRhyme was a hot album though and those are a lot more rare today than they used to be. Classic or not it’s the best news of the week to me that PR2 is on the way.
Really ? With some bullshit that’s been called Rap/Hip-Hop nowadays, constantly dropping. PRhyme is a CLASSIC !!!
I agree. No genre of music is more obsessed with labeling something as classic or a masterpiece as hip hop. Nothing can be good or great anymore. It’s either classic or trash. There’s no middle.
PRhyme 2 will sample Antman Wonder like PRhyme 1 did with Adrian Younge samples. Preem let some info out on Royce’s respect the shooter project prior to the Layers album. Antman is a dope ass producer and composer. Check the project he and Skyzoo did remaking Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt. I can’t wait for this.
Good looking out!
God Bless you guys . . . been praying on this day to come . hope it comes sooner
Royce the 59 post “day one”…. Hiphopdx headline-“finishing up”smh
THAT NEW MC EIHT ALBUM WHICH WAY IZ WEST IS GONNA BE DOPE . GEAH MC EIHT IS BACK FOR THE 2017 SHOT . STREIHT UP MENACE . CMW 4 LIFE IT’S A COMPTON THANG
i know the internet backpack “real hip hop” nerds are happy. just wait til yachty drops his album, everything’s gonna change.
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