Royce da 5'9"
Royce da 5'9 "(also Royce The 5'9" ) ( born July 5, 1977 in Detroit, civil Ryan Montgomery ). 's An American rapper and songwriter Its name derives from the hallmark of the car brand Rolls- Royce and its body size from approximately 1.75 m (5 feet and 9 inches ). Royce is a member of the hip hop formations Slaughterhouse and Bad Meets Evil.
Life
Royce grew up in Detroit and met in 1997 on Eminem before it was discovered in 1998 by Dr Dre. With Eminem, he was active with the duo Bad Meets Evil. They produced several songs, one of which was later included See You In Hell in Eminem's album The Slim Shady LP as Bad Meets Evil.
Royce da 5'9 " was involved as a ghost writer Dr. Dre's album 2001, originally at Xxplosive also a Part Some of the songs written by him did not come finally to the album and leakten later. As Royce ' manager at the time publicly announced that ghostwriting, asked Dr. Dre, Royce that is separate from him. However, Royce refused and ended the collaboration with Dre.
Tommy Boy Records in 2000 attention to Royce and took him under contract. The collaboration was short, the announced debut album Rock City was not published. He joined the New York label Game Recordings, which helped him to publish his debut album in 2002 through a contract with Columbia Records. Again, the collaboration was short-lived. The album was commissioned by Columbia from the market and in the same year reshuffled by Koch Records as Rock City (Version 2.0) republished. The executive producer of the album was Eminem. Individual songs were produced by The Neptunes, Trackmasters, and DJ Premier.
In the same year he was trying to get under contract, which was rejected by Eminem, since this would not add new artists at Eminem's Shady Records label. Two weeks after the request signed 50 Cent to Shady Records. This was the reason for beef between Royce and Eminem, who was supported by D12. After several Disstracks it came to an open confrontation between Royce and D12 member Proof, in the course of which firearms were involved. The two opponents were arrested and had to spend in jail, where they attach their differences one night.
2004 Royce published again about cooking the album Death is Certain, which deals content from Beef with the other Detroit rappers. The production was taken over by Carlos, a member of The Hitmen. Also DJ Premier produced a song. Was on the Billboard Top 200 album reached number 161 followed the album appeared in 2005 from the Independent 's Day.
On 19 September 2006 Royce da " sentenced to one year imprisonment 5'9 reason of breach of probation. However, he was released under an employment project in early January 2007.
In May 2007, Montgomery released a mixtape called The Bar Exam along with DJ Premier and Statik Selektah. He then worked as a ghostwriter for Diddy's album Press Play. Diddy showed interest in it to win Royce for his label Bad Boy Entertainment, and Nas also offered to signets Montgomery to his label. Finally came Royce da 5'9 " but at Gracie Productions under contract.
On 13 June 2011, the EP was Hell: The Sequel published, the Royce da 5'9 " recorded together with Eminem under the name Bad Meets Evil and was able to reach # 1 on the U.S. charts.
Discography
- 2002: Rock City (Columbia Records)
- 2002: Rock City (Version 2.0) ( Koch Records )
- 2004: Death Is Certain ( Koch Records, Billboard 200 # 161)
- 2005: Independent 's Day ( Trouble / M.I.C Records. )
- 2008: The Album ( M.I.C. Records)
- 2009: Street Hop
- 2011: Hell: The Sequel (as Bad Meets Evil & Eminem )
- 2011: Success Is Certain