PRhyme is an American hip hop duo composed of Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5'9' and New York-based record producer DJ Premier. They created their own record label PRhyme Records and released their first album, PRhyme, on December 9, 2014, and its follow-up, PRhyme 2, on March 16, 2018.
The production of each album is based on sampling a single artist's compositions: Adrian Younge for PRhyme and AntMan Wonder for PRhyme 2. Ryan Daniel Montgomery, known professionally as Royce da 59' (or simply Royce 59'), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.He is currently one half of the rap duo Bad Meets Evil with fellow Detroit rapper Eminem, and is one half of the hip hop duo PRhyme with producer DJ Premier. PRhyme is an American hip hop duo composed of Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5'9' and New York-based record producer DJ Premier.
When the concept was originally pitched to Premier, he viewed it as a challenge since he recognized that he was previously known for his beats from obscure samples from many different sources, and this project forced him to find what he needed from a single catalogue of work. They created their own record label PRhyme Records and released their first album, PRhyme, on December 9, 2014, and its follow-up, PRhyme 2, on March 16, 2018. The duo also appeared on the Southpaw soundtrack.įor PRhyme 2, Royce described the process of receiving compositions to work off of directly from AntMan Wonder as being 'like sampling from Mozart but Mozart is actually giving you the music'. In 2021, DJ Premier confirmed PRhyme 3 is in the works.