CyHi The Prynce talks about the “Dr. Dre & Eminem” type project with Kanye West.
CyHi The Prynce recently sat down with HipHopDx for a new interview with Trent Clark and Kyle Eustice, where the Georgia rapper was asked about his 2015’s “Elephant In The Room” which is a Kanye West diss track, and if it was a marketing thing or he was legit mad at Ye. Then CyHi The Prynce revealed that it was actually a planned thing to appear on a joint album with Kanye West.
Although he was never formally signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label, CyHi The Prynce has been long associated with Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music label. So it came as a bit of a surprise when CyHi released a song called “Elephant In The Room” in 2015, in which he shoots up the Def Jam Recordings headquarters, kidnaps Kanye, and tosses him in his truck while dissing everybody who was in his way.
“That was actually for an album we were doing,” says CyHi The Prynce. “We were going to do this like Dr. Dre/Eminem album and that was a song Kanye actually gave me. So, I wanted to make it feel like that kind of vibe when I did it. You know how Eminem used to always go at Dre? You Know That’s what I wanted to do.”
Despite the fact that the project was never completed (at least not yet), Kanye and CyHi have collaborated on a number of projects over the years, including Ye’s 2010 masterwork My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. CyHi, on the other hand, hesitated to pick his favorite Kanye endeavor when asked.
“To me, I think all his albums are great,” he said. “I really feel like a lot of times what he does is he pushes the envelope. When you first come in the music game, you kind of want to be like everybody else. You kind of want to fit the algorithm, fit the mold, fit what a rapper looks like, act like, talk like. Then once you’ve won the 21 Grammys and all the other great things you’ve done, now you’re just trailblazing. I think with him, it’s just that’s where he’s at. He comes with a new idea and people get to sit and study it, and then they try to make a better version of it.
He continued, “When I seen Basquiat paintings, I thought they were terrible when I first seen them. My five-year-old nephew could do this. But then when somebody explains it to you, when you see the pain in that stroke, when you understand where it ain’t like ‘I’mma write this lyric down’ versus ‘I’mma just go in here and say how I feel,’ because a lot of times. Ye tells me, ‘English is not our original language.’
Check out his interview below.
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