Bio

Royal was born October 6th 1982 in Harlem, New York. At the tender age of two his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. There he grew up around influences such as R.Kelly, Twista, Da Brat, and other local artists. Some of his other influnces were Nas, Jay-Z, Tupac, Biggie, BONE Thugs and Harmony. Surrounded by pimps, mobsters, and hustlers he remained out of that life style until age 13. Where he and a group of friends were introduced to the life of a gangster. They joined the G.D.'s aka Folks. He was also exposed to hip hop for the first time when he started making his own tapes of himself rerapping some of his favorite artist' songs. He later began writing his own rhymes. At age 18 with his family tired of the life style of his actions they uped and moved to Orlando, Fla. His senior year of highschool is where he really began to get into music. While in Orlando he met up with a group of friends (Tek, Trama, Truth, Xaqution, Pistol P, New York, Killa T, Ashley, Hard Times and more) They all first came together to form The Oracles but was quickly changed to The League of Kings. Collectively they made music unheard of before. A mix rap, hip hop, and rock. They entered in thier local school talent show (Evans). In 2001 he recorded his first song professionally. Entitled Mission Impossible. A song with the Dr. Dre's Imfamous beat "Phone Tap" With up's and down's with the group a negative feed back from a southeren dominated music stream they stopped all together. By the summer of 2004 after one of thier group members passing away ( R.I.P. New York) Certain members decided to bring it back and at least try for him. Now with thier own Independent upstart label SoundLab Productions, they are venturing into more avenues. Meanwhile Royal has started his own solo career. His brash mellow tone along with cocky, educated, seductive and lyrical ryhmes along with production by Teknique, Shane, Lyvwre, and more producers his debut should be one of the new bright spots in hip hop today