--- title: "Royce da 5'9\" speaks on his new album, \"Book of Ryan\"" description: "Royce da 5'9\" speaks on his new album, \"Book of Ryan\"" image: https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hubfs/royce_59.jpg --- [**](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/royce-da-59-speaks-on-his-new-album-book-of-ryan#) - Oct 8-13, 2019 - [Home](https://www.a3cfestival.com) - [Schedule](https://a3cconference.com/shows/index.html) - [Lineup](https://a3cconference.com/lineup/index.html) - [Oct 8-13, 2019](https://www.a3cfestival.com) - [Blog](https://blog.a3cfestival.com) - [Buy Tickets](https://www.a3cfestival.com/tickets) ![](https://udxsva.com/tag?id=11009) - [Home](https://blog.a3cfestival.com) - [Artist Advice](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/artist-advice) - [Music Industry](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/music-industry) - [A3C Updates](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/a3c) - [Events](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/events) - [Atlanta](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/atlanta) - [Opportunities](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/opportunities) # Royce da 5'9" speaks on his new album, "Book of Ryan" ![The Blog Team](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hubfs/a3c17%20red%20plain-1.png) Posted by [The Blog Team](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/author/the-blog-team) on May 4 *So what’s an acclaimed artist to do when they no longer have anything to prove? In the case of hip-hop’s legendary Detroit lyricist Royce 5’9”, you shut out all of the hype that places you in the same esteemed company as such revered, game-changing emcees as Jay-Z, Ice Cube and Eminem and release your most potent, celebratory and brazenly honest album of your 20-plus-year-career. "Book of Ryan," the seventh solo studio project from the grinding rhyme visionary, is a work that defies well-worn, grizzled veteran rap clichés. * For full schedule and more videos go to [BUILDseries.com](http://buildseries.com) Catch Royce and DJ Premier at **[A3C Festival](https://www.a3cfestival.com/festival)** in ATL on Oct 6-7 as PRhyme. ![royce_59](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hs-fs/hubfs/royce_59.jpg?width=584&height=389&name=royce_59.jpg) [![Buy Passes](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/73154/0e06a320-0809-497c-82ed-d30ccf28c12e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/73154/0e06a320-0809-497c-82ed-d30ccf28c12e) Wu-Tang Clan, Lil Wayne, The Diplomats, Curren$y, Young MA, PRhyme, Mannie Fresh, Westside Gunn + Conway will perform with some of Atlanta’s most promising young MCs J.I.D, Childish Major and Deante Hitchcock will perform on the A3C Festival outdoor stage at the GA Freight Depot in Atlanta between Sat, Oct 6 + Sun, Oct 7. 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