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The Rundown: PRhyme, PRhyme - The hip hop world was abuzz with anticipation when it was announced that hip hop producing giant DJ Premier and Detroit rhyme slayer Royce da 5'9" were becoming a team under the name of PRhyme. The result of this collaboration is the self-titled LP that boldly offers a rap music purist's dream of concrete-busting beats, '90s retro New York-style samples and unwavering kinetic rhymes. Click on and peep the breakdown of PRhyme's ambitious debut.  (Photo: PRhyme Records)

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"PRhyme" - With an eye that oscillates between suspicious police officers and celeb-hungry groupies, Royce sets off the LP riding a Primo meld of plodding piano samples and a thick backbeat. "Seems like the fans be like f**k honesty," he spits. "My favorite rapper was signed to Duck Down, so they're signed to the Duck Dynasty." (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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"Dat Sound Good" feat. Ab-Soul and Mac Miller - Primo's signature buttery scratch sends out the chorus of this collabo between Royce, Mac Miller and Ab-Soul as the three tag team a flurry of rhymes meant to challenge the ear as will as blow ya mind. "I'm in tip-top condition with a hustler's ambition," rhymes Royce. "I'm sick and damn hot, I should be in a damn kitchen."(Photo: PRhyme Records)

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"U Looz" - "And this is for the real hip hop n***a," Royce contends, "who would never ask me if I was here to replace Guru." PRhyme flexes stylistically supreme atop Primo's thunderous horn/snare sample replete with a showcase of the DJ vet's scratch mastery.

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"You Should Know" feat. Dwele - Royce uses this head-nodding rhythm (accented with excerpts from a Malcolm X speech) to catapult another flurry of verses that confound as well as excite. "You rise to fame then die so they can say you barely won," he spits. "And they keep your masters so your children become bastards, having to ask executives for they daddy records: sounding like Blind Mellow Jelly son." (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

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"Courtesy" - Over Primo's sampled mix of church organs and atomic drums Royce, yet again, lets metaphors and hyperbole rain in a torrent of heartfelt verses. "I'm from a family of alcoholics and coke addicts," he confesses. "Daddy taught that if the a** is so fat that it's a fact that if you with ya h*e, no matter, it's still appropriate to scope at it." (Photo: Royce da 5'9 via Instagram)

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"Wishin'" feat. Common - Royce teams with Common to lyrically walk through the landmines of their respective hoods, each flexing a dizzying, cinematic flow.  (Photos from left: John Ricard / BET, Apega/WENN.com)

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"To Me, To You" feat. Jay Electronica - Royce uses another Preem organ/drum chopped rhythm to match Jay Electronica verse for verse.  (Photo: Royce da 5'9 via Instagram)

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"Underground Kings" feat. ScHoolboy Q and Killer Mike - "All I give a f**k about is the money," Royce spits on this collabo with Killer Mike and ScHoolboy Q. "But when I got it, I don't give a f**k about it." Without concern for the current popular aesthetics of pop rap, the three bash words against Primo's towering double-timed rhythm.  (Photo: PRhyme via Twitter)

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"Microphone Preem" feat. Slaughterhouse - With a title that plays off Eric B. & Rakim's 1988 classic "Microphone Fiend," this cut closes out the LP with a team effort between Royce and Slaughterhouse.  (Photos from Left: John Ricard / BET, Johnny Nunez/WireImage)