Royce da 5'9"

Released: June 20, 2017

Songwriter: Royce da 5'9"

[Jay Z]
This poetry is thought-provoking and there's thought behind it
And there's great writing in rap as well **Static**
You know you never hear **Static**
Rappers being compared for like the greatest writers of all time
You know you hear Bob Dylan it was, so was Biggie Smalls
You know some of the things that Biggie Wrote

[Sample: Notorious B.I.G. - "The What"]
Excuse me, flows just grow through me
Like trees to branches, cliffs to avalanches
It's the praying mantis
Deep like the mind of Farrakhan

[Jay Z]
Rakim, I mean listen to some of the things he wrote

[Sample: Eric B. & Rakim's "Don't Sweat the Technique"]
Classical too intelligent to be radical
Masterful, never irrelevant: mathematical

[Jay Z]
I mean you take those lyrics and you pull 'em away from the music
And you put 'em up on the wall somewhere
And someone had to look at 'em
They would say "this is genius!" Static
"This is genius work!"

Royce da 5'9", real name Ryan Daniel Montgomery, is undoubtedly one of the underground rap kings of Detroit. The Michigan MC is a long-time collaborator of Eminem’s, meeting him in December 1997, and is noted as one of the greatest lyricists in hip-hop’s history (in 2012, The Source ranked him as the 48th greatest lyricist of all time in their top 50, this questionable ranking unsurprisingly being scrutinized by many as a gross misjudgment).

Although critics have previously cast shade on his ability to create a well-rounded body of work, many, critics included, considered his sophomore effort, Death is Certain (2004), to be a strong album. To learn more in-depth about his solo discography, read this page (the page listed is old, so it is not updated).

Royce is the Bad half of Bad Meets Evil (with Eminem), ¼ of Slaughterhouse (alongside Crooked I KXNG CROOKED, Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz), and ½ of PRhyme (with DJ Premier). Royce currently operates a independent record label, Bad Half Entertainment.

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