The beats are unnecessarily busy at points and surprisingly minimal at others. A lingering appetite for glory also makes room for ego and showmanship to muddy the final mix. The Bad: Going out of his way to be the change with respect to inclusivity in rap, Royce takes on a noble mission to unify rap’s ranks in an era marked by contentious generational beef and cooks the message until the meat is just a bit too tough. PRhyme 2 is a clinic in adapting to a changing climate to retain the freedom necessary to do what you love. In doing so, they create room for themselves in a new era and do a solid job of showing their classmates how it’s done. Where Royce’s peers have angrily demanded to be respected by the young guns, he and Premier invite them to coexist. The Good: PRhyme 2 is about building bridges between hip-hop’s veterans and rising icons, who will predict the size and shape of the next wave. The 17-track project is a booming treatise in line with Premier’s aesthetic that finds Nickel and Primo extending an olive branch to the mumble rap kings and other rising rap acts, who’ve been openly vilified by a large swath of rap’s old guard. The Lowdown: Four years after the self-titled debut of their PRhyme venture, Royce da 5’9” and DJ Premier reprise the project driven by the compositions of analog revivalist Adrian Younge, with their appropriately titled 2018 sophomore album, PRhyme 2, co-produced by criminally underrated, sample-shy Philadelphia native AntMan Wonder.
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