Win a Placement & Studio Session with Royce da 5'9"

Royce da 5’9”’s latest and first self-produced album, The Allegory, gives away how much he appreciates the art of sampling. “Right now, I’m down a 1970’s soul sample rabbit hole,” he told Okayplayer upon the release of the—since then Grammy-nominated—album. Sampling 70s music by the likes of The Soul Children, Black Savage, Charlene, and Kool & the Gang on The Allegoryshows just that. Royce eventually found his way to Tracklib. “Tracklib allows me to go ‘digging’ with the best of them,” he told us. “It’s a smart platform that caters to your production style. We’re not worthy at the end of the day...”

It’s now your shot to collaborate with Royce da 5’9” on an official song. So head down Tracklib’s own rabbit hole of all-original music to sample, submit your beat, and you might be the one who we connect to Royce da 5’9” for a remote studio session.

It's free-for-all for this competition. Submit a beat using any sample(s) from Tracklib. Whether you use music from legends like Bob James or Isaac Hayes, dig into collections like ***Multi-Multi Track ***or Choppable Soul, or flip one of the gems recently sampled by BROCKHAMPTON, Kenny Beats, and ESTA. (for Joyce Wrice featuring Westside Gunn)—the choice is all yours. As long as your beat contains one or more Tracklib samples, you can enter this competition to record a song with the one and only Royce da 5'9".

Previous competitions with Redman, Styles P and Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck led to thousands of submissions. So as advised by Royce da 5'9" himself in the video on top of this page: put your best foot forward for your most fire beat...

This competition is open until the end of the day, Sunday June 13th, 2021 (all timezones included).

• You can not send in beats that you've submitted to previous competitions—yes, we will check.
• All beats need to sample from at least one song on Tracklib—the sample needs to be clearly distinguishable.
• You can sample song(s) from any Tracklib song category (A, B or C).
• The beats can only contain Tracklib samples, royalty-free sounds, and sounds you record yourself. Nothing else that needs to be cleared!
• You need to post this photo on your Instagram or Twitter to submit (further info can be found in the submission form). Your Instagram or Twitter profile needs to be public for us to be able to see your post.
• You can submit as many entries as you want as long as they follow the rules.
• You do not have to buy a sample license before submitting beats to the competition.
• In order to win you have to have downloaded the sampled track(s) directly from Tracklib—yes, we will check.

Winners will be announced during the Fall of 2021.

For any questions not answered here: feel free to email support@tracklib.com.

GRAND PRIZE

• Make a song together with Royce da 5'9" which will be officially released
• A $1000 cash prize
• Get connected to Royce da 5'9" and collaborate in a remote studio session
• Writing credits and publishing on the song
• A free one-year Tracklib subscription (Standard)
• A shout-out from Royce da 5'9" himself

2x RUNNER-UPS

• A free one-year Tracklib subscription (Standard)
• A shout-out from Royce da 5'9" himself

With a career spanning twenty-plus years, Royce da 5’9” went on from an early Eminem collaborator to becoming a hip-hop phenomenon. Most recently with this year’s Grammy-nominated album, The Allegory, and the last ten years as part of PRhyme (with DJ Premier) and the now-defunct group Slaughterhouse (together with Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Kxng Crooked). Not even counting the times he acted as a ghostwriter for the likes of Dr. Dre and P. Diddy early on in his career.

If you're new to Tracklib: we're the first and only record store for sampling. We have almost 100.000 actual songs as well as a selection of previously unreleased stems. All available for sampling and official licensing. Tracklib has been used by some of the biggest producers and artists in the world. For example on J.Cole's double-platinum single "MIDDLE CHILD", on DJ Khaled’s Father of Asahd album, on **Lil Wayne’s latest number 1 album, Funeral**, and on "Chain On" by BROCKHAMPTON & JPEGMAFIA.

You can easily search songs to sample by genre, year of release, BPM, song key, et cetera in our Tracks section. You can clear the sample for official release for as little as $50. Sign up now to get a free trial with 15 free download credits. Or read more about how Tracklib works.