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Dre requested that Royce cut ties with Kino. After Royce's manager Kino stated: "I've seen Em' sit Dre down like a pupil and coach him on rhymes." on a phone interview, Dr. Through Eminem, Royce would also be introduced to both Dr. Royce and Eminem also released a track called "Renegade", from which Royce's vocals would later be replaced with Jay-Z's on the latter's The Blueprint. Furthermore, Royce appeared on Eminem's major-label debut studio album The Slim Shady LP, in which he was featured on a song called "Bad Meets Evil". On August 20, 1998, Royce and Eminem both appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show for the first time. Through his manager Kino Childrey, Royce was introduced to Eminem on Decemat a concert, and the two formed a working relationship they formed up as a duo, Bad Meets Evil, and released several tracks together. While the album did not sell very well, the DJ Premier-produced single "Boom" gained Royce some underground recognition and eventually resulted in the two working together more closely. When the project was heavily bootlegged, Royce left the label for Koch to re-record some of the album, eventually releasing it in 2002 as Rock City (Version 2.0). After Tommy Boy Records shut down, he signed a deal with Columbia and Game Recordings where he started recording an album called Rock City, referring to Detroit's former status as home to Motown Records.

Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, who offered him $250,000 and unlimited beats-what Royce expressed as his "biggest regret" in a March 2016 interview with Complex. He signed his first deal in 1998 with Tommy Boy Records, the label offering him $1 million compared to Dr.

He started rapping at age 18, influenced mainly by Ras Kass, Redman, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Esham, Detroit's Most Wanted, and N.W.A. Similar instances suggest that his name has numerous meanings besides his height. However, the numbers five and nine have been in his life numerous times as he "found his calling" as a rapper in 1995 and in his song "Tabernacle" he discusses his grandmother dying on the fifth floor of a hospital and his first son being born on the ninth.

Royce's name comes from his height, 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm). He moved to Oak Park, Michigan when he was 10 years old, later acquiring the nickname "Royce" during high school after wearing a British link chain with an R pendant resembling the Rolls Royce symbol. In an interview with DJ Vlad on YouTube, Royce stated that his only early stage name prior to the "Royce" nickname was R-Dog, which "didn't even last a year".