PRhyme Discuss Their Origins & Recording in 2014
Royce Da 5'9" and DJ Premier, the dream duo behind PRhyme, have been recording together for fifteen years now, a working friendship that came easily.
"We built a great relationship just off of working with each other and it's like a 'real recognize real' kind of thing. We vibe really similar. If it's not broke, don't fix it. If I do a project, he's one of the first people who is going to pop into my mind because it's just automatic chemistry," Royce Da 5'9" told Fuse. "Every time I've done an album, I've went to Premier. After you kind of hit your mark with someone creatively, and people like it and it connects with people, they start to demand that you do more together."
To be great, you have to learn from the greats. DJ Premier credits his success to his family and his musical inspirations. "The pioneers who did it before me, I studied them so I could be great. Then being a consumer of vinyl and buying records," he started. "I'm a big concertgoer because of my mother. My mother is an art teacher, she taught art. Everyone in my neighborhood knows my mother. She's that known for art class. That's how I learned how to do graffiti and everything. She used to say 'You can't go outside and play until you draw something.' I used to draw a football, speakers and a record player all the time... That transcended into going record shopping with my mother. From there we used to go to concerts." Sounds like it paid off!
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