Folks have been waiting for an album of Royce Da 5’9 over Premier‘s beats since they first heard Boom! and Friends, and Hip Hop just didn’t help matters at all. While talk of a full length album together is still lingering, a mixtape together will have to do in the meantime.


Royce and Primo along with Statik Selektah will drop The Bar Exam on April 10th. The mixtape will feature another Royce/Prem future classic in Hit’em! Plus you get Royce rhyming over plenty of Primo‘s legendary beats as well as production from Carlos “Six July” Broady, J. Cardim, DC, Bink! and Statik Selektah.

Royce spent nearly the entire past year up north for a parole violation and is currently out on a 12 hour daily work release. The Detroit native is getting out this summer, hopefully not long before his next LP Street Hop hits the shelves via his own M.I.C. label. Premier will be executive producing the album.

The Bar Exam will be available exclusively on hiphopsite.com, nickelnine.com and select mixtape locations on April 10, 2007. Traffic Entertainment will distribute the official
retail release worldwide on May
27, 2007.