ROYCE 5’9”

Detroit’s Royce da 5'9" is something of a rapper’s rapper: hard-working, well connected, indifferent to trends but passionately dedicated to the craft. And he brings it all together on Layers with textbook boom bap, as confident and cinematic as it is cool. “Highest exalted/Call me commercial?/I’m highly insulted,” he drawls on “Shine,” delivering a workingman’s credo that surfaces again on the album’s title track, alongside Pusha T and Rick Ross: “I philosophize with wise words from learned lessons/In my world, mistakes turns to blessings.” Not that he’s too humble to flex when he’s ready—just listen to “Hard.”

Past Shows


Jun
4
th
2016
7th St Entry
Jun
4
th
2016
7th St Entry

ROYCE 5’9”

with Grafh and Metasota

More Shows

May
22
nd
First Avenue

Napalm Death and Melvins

with Hard-Ons (with Jerry A) and Dark Sky Burial
Jun
15
th
7th St Entry

Samantha Crain

May
2
nd
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Mar
15
th
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Maude Latour

with MARIS