Fans of Royce 5’9″ should be a satisfied lot this year.
The respected emcee is set to release his new album Layers on April 15th with ‘Tabernacle’ serving as the first single. Along with dropping the music video, he’s been doing quite a bit of press to promote his run.
In an interview with XXL, Royce reveals that before Layers, he will also be releasing an EP titled Respect The Shooter. The song ‘Dead Presidents Heads‘ which he debuted on the same day as ‘Tabernacle’ will appear on the project. In addition to that, right after Layers, he will come back with another proper studio album which he made Eminem hear recently.
You mentioned playing Layers for some people. Have you played Eminem the album?
I haven’t had a chance to play him this album. I played him some of my other album, but not this one because I’ve been real busy running around, doing a lot of traveling. He’s been traveling. We normally travel together because I’m usually in his traveling party but I haven’t been able to travel with him the last couple times he’s left Detroit, so I haven’t really got a chance to see him and play it for him.Did he have any thoughts on the other album?
Yeah, yeah… he loved that one. He said a whole lot of good shit about that one. He was definitely taken aback by that one. He was real surprised. He said he didn’t expect it to be that good even though he expected it to be good. He said I opened up a new chamber, a new part of myself that even he didn’t know about. Songs like “Tabernacle” he was like, “Yo, you said shit in that song I didn’t even know, and I’ve been knowing you for 20 years.”