Curren$y and Royce da 5'9"

Born on 4 April 1981, Curren$y signed with Master P’s No Limit Records in 2002. He was also a member of 504 Boyz and made multiple appearances on Master P’s “Good Side, Bad Side” record in 2004. Later that same year, he signed with Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment and released a mix tape entitled “Welcome Back.” Additionally, Curren$y started Fly Society, first as just a clothing company, then as a company that also released music. Led off by the single “Where Da Cash At” he released his mix tape album with Young Money Records “Music To Fly To” in 2006.

In 2009 Curren$y signed with Amalgam Digital to released his album “This Ain’t No Mixtape,” which was followed shortly by the release of “Jet Files.” A year later he released “Pilot Talk” which featured guests such as Snoop Dogg, Mos Def and Big K.R.I.T. A mere four months later he followed up with his fourth album, “Pilot Talk II” which featured Fiend and Raekwon. On 11 February 2011 signed with Jet Life Recordings, an imprint of Warner Brothers Records. He released a ten-track album for free entitled “The Alchemist” followed by a mix tape “Weekend At Burnie’s.” Early the next year, Curren$y released his next album, “Muscle Car Chronicles,” followed by a consistent release of albums and EPs, and in 2014 he released “The Drive In Theater.”

Having developed the nickname Royce during high school for wearing a pendant resembling Rolls Royce’s logo, Ryan Montgomery began rapping age 18. Influenced by the likes of Ras Kass, Redman, Tupac Shakur, N.W.A., and The Notorious B.I.G., Royce was introduced to Eminem in 1997, which marked the beginning of a fruitful albeit tempestuous working duo named Bad Meets Evil. After appearing on Eminem’s major-label debut “The Slim Shady LP” on the track “Bad Meets Evil”, the rapper settled with the label Koch to released his debut “Rock City” in 2002. The album earned favourable reviews from critics, peaked at No. Eight on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, largely aided by the singles, “You Can’t Touch Me”, “Rock City”, and the DJ Premier produced “Boom”.

Following an ugly battle with fellow Detroit natives D12 that culminated with Royce fighting the rapper Proof in the street, Royce found his stride once again releasing “Death Is Certain” in 2004. The album has long been dubbed Royce’s finest work, earning critical acclaim from the musical press, and drawing comparisons to Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. Featuring Ingrid Small, Cha Cha and production from 6 July, the album spawned the singles “Hip Hop” and “Death Is Certain Pt. 2 (It Hurts)”. Royce’s follow up, 2005’s “Independent’s Day”, despite featuring guest appearances from Cee Lo Green and Yo Gotti, failed to reach the success of its predecessor.

In a collaboration with DJ Premier and Statik Selektah, Royce released the mixtape “The Bar Exam” in 2007, followed a year later by “The Bar Exam 2”. Also in 2008, the rapper announced his feud with Eminem and D12 had been resolved, paving the way for future collaborative material. In 2009 Royce released his debut album as a part of the supergroup Slaughterhouse, alongside Crooked I, Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz, entitled “Slaughterhouse”. The album earned strong reviews from critics and peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 aided by the singles “The One” and “Microphone”.

Royce’s fourth solo studio album “Street Hop” was released in October 2009 featuring the singles “Shake This”, “Part of Me”, and “New Money”. In a collaboration with Eminem under the moniker Bad Meets Evil, Royce released the album “Hell: The Sequel” in 2011, followed by his fifth solo album “Success Is Certain”, both of which proved popular with the critical press. A second Slaughterhouse album arrived in 2012 entitled “Welcome to: Our House”, followed by a contribution to the Shady Records release “Shady XV” and DJ Premier release “PRhyme” in 2014.