Yo, what's up.
This is Royce da 5'9,” and I'm about to see which of these Detroit rap hits gets my cosign.
I think Detroit fosters so many legendary artists over the years because we're inspired
by so many things.
Like Detroit is one of those cities, sometimes like to go to a different neighborhood, it's
like to go to a different world.
You know how Philly has good fighters, boxers, Detroit just has good artists.
Oh, it's starting off good already.
42 Dugg and Gerard Victor.
How can we lose?
Nah I ain’t ever heard that before.
That’s fire.
I love Dugg man.
He real, man.
He real.
He just a bad ass lil nigga, you know what I’m saying.
Just to be honest, you know what I mean.
He personifies a very common voice in the community, even though he stands out like
a motherfucker.
And I just think the universe is always going to show favor to him because he's not pandering
to anybody, he's being himself, he hasn't made any desperate moves to go be friendly
with somebody.
He is being Detroit as fuck.
And people gravitate to him.
I love that.
Oh that’s my baby.
I mean, I love Kash Doll.
I love Kash Doll.
She could do no wrong.
She’s her.
Super consistent, never heard anything that I needed to criticize.
It was basically the perfect verse.
I think once Kash Doll starts releasing her albums, people will be able to appreciate
her lyricism a lot more.
But I mean, she's on her way.
She's super consistent with everything.
She kills everything that she's on.
I just think she has a really, really great personality and people love her.
They love the way that she looks and they haven't got a chance to really unpack how
lyrically talented she is.
So it'll come with time.
I like this kid.
He was just at my studio recently.
I just met him.
I felt like I was meeting a little baby, man.
These kids look so young.
I like what he's doing in terms of sonically, the direction that he's going.
I think that's an interesting direction for a young Detroiter to go.
I'm not really with the whole rapping off beat on purpose thing.
I just can't listen to that.
That shit is like nails across the chalkboard for me.
But I like the fact that they're trying to do something different.
Like that right there, what he's trying to do, I don't even know what that even evolves from.
That's like when you hear really, really young guys thinking like that, that means somebody's
deciding that they want to go their own way.
And that's greatness in the making.
I would say just do that shit on beat so I can listen to it.
Yeah, you know I heard that.
That's Boldy, man.
That’s Boldy.
Yup, Boldy and Al.
That's a cool duo.
Boldy is one of the best rappers in Detroit right now, for sure.
I know Boldy personally, and I know he can do this shit standing on his hands, so he
wasn't really focused for a long time.
He was one foot in the street, one foot out.
And I think he just decided to make a commitment.
And the universe responds to that when you commit, when you decide.
And I think he's getting out of it, what he's putting into it.
He deserves it.
I knew he was going to pop sooner or later.
I fuck with him and his movement real tough, but he's always been focused.
He's been had it.
He'd been had that thing.
That's not the Detroit sound.
That's just him.
I was watching him.
And then the next thing you know, I kinda just looked at his eyes and his eyes was like
real sleepy looking and he was rapping and I was just like, "Oh, that's just what it is.
It's just some laid back G shit."
These lil niggas is crazy, man.
Crazy.
I love these beats.
I don't even know where the hell they're getting these.
Is that a sample?
I didn't even realize that that was the ‘Law & Order’ theme music that they sampled in that.
I thought it was just like some chill '80s shit.
It's a few spots where he'd just fall out the pocket a little bit, but I love his approach, man.
Just laid back.
It's like they just be in their own little world, man.
They all different from each other.
That goes back to what I was saying in the beginning, man.
We've always been like that, tons of moving parts all going at the same time.
You can kinda get kind of a Detroit feel.
But man, all of them are like taking on a form of their own.
42 Dugg is a young goon.
He’s a young goon.
That's my man.
I love that song.
Kash Doll, come on.
That's our queen. That's our queen and I support her in every way.
I love everything about her.
I like Baby Tron.
I like some of his stuff.
He does that thing, where he raps off beat on purpose sometimes.
I can’t get into it.
Boldy is probably one of the best rappers in Detroit right now.
Like him and Alchemist, they could do no wrong together.
I love the Babyface Ray joint.
He got his own style.
I love his flow.
He's always been focused over the years, they whole crew's been doing they thing.
So I always fuck with him.
Veeze, that's my first time hearing Veeze.
But I love that song.
I think that song is special.
I liked that one a lot.
They're cool as fuck in the video.
I love that shit.
I'm proud of my city, man.
So after listening to these Detroit rap hits, the artist who gets my cosign is Veeze because
I never heard of Veeze and I loved the song.
I'm actually going to listen to it again.
And I don't think he had somebody like me in mind when he was making it, which makes
it even doper.
So I’ma to go fuck with that one.
I'm going to listen to that and shout out to him, if you listening, man.
Keep doing your thing lil homie.
I'm sure we'll probably bump into each other at some point.
I got a studio.
I've been over here for about five years now.
It's called Heaven Studios.
It's a great common place for myself and especially younger artists to come through and get supported
and get embraced the proper way.
The way that they deserve to be.
So I'm proud of that because that means I get to break a generational curse in Detroit
among artists going from generation to generation.
So it's always a pleasure to be able to do that.
Therapy is a good idea for longevity, you know what I’m saying?
Like for real.
Because it's a good way to identify with self and if you can identify with things that you
can improve upon, then you can begin to fix things and you can begin to unpack certain things.