NUMBER TWO IN OUR LIST IS NONE OTHER THAN ROYCE NICKLE NINE!!! IN 2011 ROYCE FINALLY SEEMED TO BE GETTING PROPS DUE, EMBRACING THE UNIVERSAL LOVE RECEIVED PERFORMING AS THE BAD HALF TO EMINEMS EVIL, SEIZING THE SHADY RECORDS DEAL AS ONE QUARTER OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE WHILST MAINTAINING THE UNDERGROUNDS TRUST AS WELL AS DROPPING HIS 5TH SOLO STUDIO EFFORT "SUCCESS IS CERTAIN"!!! THROW INTO THAT IMPRESSIVE CATOLOGUE OF AYEARS WORK - TWITTER BUZZ THANKS TO HIS "HI RIHANNA" SHADY 2.0 BET CYPHER APPEARANCE WITH HIS NUMEROUS GUEST APPEARANCES AND FREESTYLES THIS CAN EASILY BE SUMMED UP AS ROYCE'S MOST PRODUCTIVE YEAR TO DATE.
WE'LL START AT THE BEGINNING WITH THE "SLAUGHTERHOUSE E.P." AND IT'S ROYCE WHO GETS THE SHOW STARTED WITH THE OPENING VERSE FOR THE DRES FEATURING EP OPENER "BACK ON THE SCENE"
Slaughterhouse family, ridin' like a taxi
And yeah, I'm like Dres, I am like the black sheep
I just want a GANGSTA Bitch, R.I.P. Apache!!!
ROYCE SHOW'S ONCE AGAIN AS HE DID ON THE "SLAUGHTERHOUSE LP" THAT HE CAN RISE TO THE CHALLENGE OF SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT WITH OTHER'S WHILST STILL ATTACKING EACH AND EVERY BEAT AS IF IT WAS HIS OWN PERHAPS BEST SHOWN ON "EVERYBODY DOWN" WHERE ROYCE FINISHES THE OPENING VERSE
"I'm a cheddar getter, you a teller
I don't care, whatever, I'll just scare the witnesses
I'm the illest in here, bring a pen and pad
And don't compare the sicknesses
Where the fuck the ruler at, so we can measure sentences
I am better than I've ever been, never been better
I don't follow trends, I set trends for the trendsetters,
- nickle"
NEXT ON THE MENU FOR ROYCE WAS THE RETURN OF BAD MEETS EVIL - ROYCE DA 5'9" & EMINEM!! "HELL: THE SEQUEL"
A DUO LAST HEARD TOGETHER IN 1999, SO YOU COULD SAY THEY HAD A LIL SOMETHING OF A BATTLE ON THEY'RE HANDS WITH LIVING UP TO THE EXPECTATIONS OF ALL OF THOSE FANS THAT PURCHASED THEY'RE 1999 GAME RECORDS RELEASED "BAD MEETS EVIL" AND MAINTAINING THE EARS OF THE MODERN LISTENER!! ROYCE POSSIBLY MORE SO AS TRYING TO STEAL EMINEM'S SHINE FROM A LEGION OF STAN'S IS A DAUNTING TASK FOR ANY RAPPER YET ROYCE ATTACKED THIS RELEASE WITH THE SAME MOMENTUM THAT HAS BEEN CARRYING HIM THROUGH THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS!
THE FIRST TRACK TO LEAK FROM THIS PROJECT WAS FAST LANE WHERE VOICE SHEDS LIGHT ON THE RECONCILLIATION AND HIS PROWESS ON THE M.I.C.
"Me and Shady deaded the past,
so that basically resurrected my cashflow
I might rap tight as the snatch of a fat dyke
Though I ain’t wrapped tight, my blood type’s the ’80s!
My ’90s was like the Navy, you was like the Bradys
You still fly kites daily!"
OTHER STAND OUT TRACKS FROM THE E.P ARE THE FULL SLAUGHTERHOUSE & EMINEM COLLABO "LOUD NOISES" WHICH WAS PRODUCED BY MR PORTER, THE HAVOC PRODUCED OPENER "WELCOME TO HELL" AND THE MIKE EPPS SAMPLING "I'M ON EVERYTHING" NOT TO MENTION THE BONUS TRACKS INCLUDING THE EARLY LEAKED "ECHO" & "LIVIN PROOF" WHICH BRINGS US TO "SUCESS IS CERTAIN"!!!
ONE OF ROYCE'S MOST SOLID SOLO RELEASES TO DATE CARRIED THE SINGLES "WRITERS BLOCK" FEATURING EM WHICH ALSO RECIEVED THE REMIX TREATMENT FROM NONE OTHER THAN DJ PREMIER & THE TRAVIS BARKER FEATURING "LEGENDARY"!!! ANOTHER QUARTER OF THE SLAUGHTER POP'S UP TO SUPPORT ROYCE ON THE MR PORTER PRODUCED "MY OWN PLANET" AS WELL AS RECIEVING PRODUCTION FROM LONG TIME COLLABORATORS DJ PREMIER "SECOND PLACE" & THE ALCHEMIST ON "I AIN'T COMING DOWN" OTHER PRODUCTION IS HANDLED BY STREETRUNNER & NOTTZ!!!
SUCCESS WOULD DEFINATELY SEEM CERTAIN FOR ROYCE IN 2012 AS HIS 2011 RELEASE PROCLAIMED WITH THE MAY RELEASE OF THE FIRST SLAUGHTERHOUSE FULL LENGTH ON SHADY RECORDS AS WELL AS PUTTING IN WORK ON A SCHEDULED 2013 BAD MEETS EVIL ALBUM AND MORE SOLO WORK!!
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