P Reign, also known as The King, the King of Da North, released his debut solo single in 2008 entitled “You Know I’m Fly”, which topped the PunchMuch Canadian interactive music channel. His follow-up singles are “Money in My Pocket” (2009) and “In My Hood” (2010), produced by T-Minus. He is known as Preme because of his preterm birth, Preme being a changed spelling of “preemie”, which is slang for premature.

The Canadian Dream is his debut mixtape and was released in early 2008. His sophomore mixtape is called When It Reigns It Pours and was released on November 1, 2010. His third mixtape was to be called True Kings Don’t Die but was changed to Dear America and its release date was scheduled for July 4, 2013 but was postponed and released under Sony/RCA as an EP. He also still release a mixtape a week later with additional songs also called Dear America. Billboard magazine reported in March 2013 that P Reign is collaborating with rapper A$AP Rocky for the next release “We Them Niggas” that was a part of P Reign’s Dear America EP. P Reign is also collaborating with artists such as French Montana, Waka Flocka Flame and Drake. The EP was finally released on September 9, 2014. His song “Realest in the City” featuring Meek Mill and PartyNextDoor reached #1 on Billboard’s “Emerging Artists” chart.

In 2008, Reign was charged with nine counts of weapons possession charges after Toronto Police found three loaded handguns in the backseat of his leased Cadillac. He was acquitted of all charges on May 30, 2011. Reign referenced this on the unofficial remix to the song “Us” by Lil Reese rapping, “Drizzy dropped a hundred on my lawyer and I beat the case!”