Continued from “CyHi The Prynce G.O.O.D. Music’s Second Coming Part 1″ CyHi The Prynce: I felt

like this is my take over and I feel like Kanye is the King. I feel

like you may be in bondage from the other rappers that you hear, but

now freedom is about to ring, you’re about to be set free. I’m about

to take over the rap world, that’s what I’m here to do. With that

song I let people know. I’m one of the strongest lyricist from my

city and in hip hop, but nobody ever knew it so now they get a chance

to hear the real. I’m off the shackles now. With that song I let the

real king be featured in one of my verses.  No disrespect to the

other kings out there but I had to come with the true king to get my

point across.  

AllHipHop.com: So tell me if the release of Royal Flush is meeting your expectations? 

CyHi The Prynce: Absolutely,

It’s over exceeding my expectations actually.  I have to give

a lot of credit to Kanye because he let the world know that I am a great

artist so now everyone is more attentive. Now all of the clever and

little witty things that I might say that use to go over some people’s

head are catching them dead in their tracks.  I love the mixtape,

it’s everything that I wanted it to be even down to the pictures and

graphics.  

AllHipHop.com: Tell

me the most truthful song that you’ve ever penned and why was it important

to make a record on that particular item? 

CyHi The Prynce: 

A lot of the songs are super real.  For example “Can’t Find

Love” is definitely a real life situation for me.  All my songs

are actual things that I have either went through, or thought about

at some point in time.  I don’t do no lying! Everything I talk

about is meaningful on some level. The song “Hear Me Out” that was

about a time in my life where I was facing a lot. I had just lost my

sister and my nephew and a few close friends. I had a girl that I really

liked but we just didn’t work out and that kind of hurt my feelings

as well.   

AllHipHop.com: I’m

told that you haven’t had a girlfriend in about seven years. Why?

I mean I know you get plenty of women so what’s been missing? 

CyHi The Prynce:  It’s nothing to do with the women that I’ve been meeting. I grew up with three sisters plus my mother and I just respect women so much. I understand that commitment and marriage are nothing to play with. I have way more respect for a woman than she probably could ever think that I do.  Girls get mad at me like “you’re not supposed to tell me that you’re with another girl” but I’m like listen if I was to lie to you, it would hurt you more. I’m not into the lying and cheating bulls**t. Plus I want to marry my best friend meaning that the women I settle down with will have to know everything about me and I want to know everything about her. I’m not the whole girlfriend/boyfriend type either you’re my fiancé, wife, or we’re just friends.  

AllHipHop.com: So we’re

going to walk thru the signing with Kanye. Tell me how you first learned

that Ye had interest in signing you? 

CyHi The Prynce: NoID called and he was telling Greg Street that Kanye wanted to talk to me and that he wanted to do something with me.  Due to the blogs and everything the word was growing on me. L.A. Reid was actually about to go to Hawaii to meet Kanye so sent my homeboy Boo down there. When I went to meet him Kanye was rapping and quoting my lyrics so I was just excited because he liked where I was going with everything. When I was in New York for the XXL shoot that the deal was going to be official.  

AllHipHop.com: Tell

me a little about the new album? Guest Appearances, special features?  

CyHi The Prynce: I don’t

even know what my album will be like at this point because Kanye has

opened up so many doors for me so far. It’s just hard to say right

now because I just have access to so many people from Lady GaGa to John

Legend. Right now I’m just piecing everything together slowly but

surely.  

AllHipHop.com: How were able to be apart of this years BET Hip-Hop Awards how was that experience for you?  

CyHi The Prynce: It

was crazy because just last year I was like man I want to be in the

cipher and this year. When it came around I knew Chaka so I was like

man can you try to get me on but he was like we’ve already picked

the list. I felt like oh no and was instantly hurt. Later on that night

I got a call from my manager and he was like we’ve got to fly to New

York cause you’re doing the cipher with Kanye. I couldn’t believe

it I was so excited. I tell you man God works in mysterious ways.  

G.O.O.D. Music Cipher At BET Hip-Hop Awards

AllHipHop.com: You

actually performed at the Fool’s Gold event in Brooklyn Bowl and Kanye

came out to perform “I’m So Appalled.” What do you think you will

always remember about that show in particular? 

CyHi The Prynce: Well

first that was my first time being on stage with Kanye.  You know

what’s crazy my first show in New York was in Brooklyn and the crowd

booed me. But this time they were cheering so loud for me. It’s been

on hell of a journey.  It was a once and a lifetime experience

that even now still has me speechless. It was the biggest highlight

of my life.

Well folks it appears that

the G.O.O.D. Music family is cooking up another bad creation, but no

worries this artist seems destined to find rapping longevity. You may

not have heard of him yet, but you can certainly bet you’ll soon be

acquainted with this southern lyrical gent. “I’m impeccable, they

put me on a pedestal and if you bite me it’s good for you like a vegetable.”

If you happened to catch the BET Hip Hop Awards than you know I’m

referring the little guy with a big mouth of rhymes CyHi The Prynce.  

CyHi is about to be the next

rap artist to rise like a soufflé. Did I mention that he has three

major record deals currently on his plate? Who else is making moves

like that? Yes Konvict Muzik, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music are all hailing

the rapper to be praised by the fans of this culture. Listening to his

latest mixtape “Royal Flush” will answer your every whim about this

dude, and have your ears fixated on his word play and delivery. The

26 year old Atlanta native recently did his first mega show with Kanye

in the same city that once booed him to no end. Now if that doesn’t

inspire you what will? CyHi talks to AllHipHop.com about why his flow

is better than yours.  

AllHipHop.com: Let’s

start with the name. Why CyHi The Prynce? 

CyHi The Prynce: Everybody

was calling me CyHi due to another reason [laughter] but I started calling

myself that because my name is Cydel so I took the Cy from my name and

took the Hi from Highness.  

AllHipHop.com:  I’m told that you weren’t even allowed to listen to rap music as a child so how did you discover Hip-Hop?  

CyHi The Prynce: Now don’t get me wrong I heard Hip-Hop when I went out to the clubs, but I wasn’t allowed to buy any albums or listen to it in the house. I actually discovered Hip-Hop from a young man that was in my 8th

grade class. I also use to write poetry. I use to write little poems

for the girls to try and make them smile, and my partner was like you’re

really talented with the poems, let me show you how to rap. I started

practicing and writing raps, and it became a hobby that started to get

me noticed so I began to take it serious.  

AllHipHop.com:  So you’ve been in the music industry for a while now you started with a group and landed a deal with Def Jam. Obviously, you’re not with the group so tell me a little bit about what happened there? 

CyHi The Prynce: It

wasn’t nothing bad, but you have to consider that during the rough

economic times that it was hard to buy 5 guys a plane ticket, hotel

rooms, food, wardrobe, etc continuously.  Another thing, it was

hard for me to expand on the songs and concepts that I would come up

with because I would always have to run it by the group first and make

sure that everybody agreed. I couldn’t really collaborate the way

I wanted too within the group.  It wasn’t about my idea it had

to be about the group idea and I had certain ideas that I just had to

get out.  

AllHipHop.com: 

Now I know you were able to network and establish certain relationships

in the industry to helped push your career forward. Tell me how your

ability to network increased your business sense out here? 

CyHi The Prynce: It’s

crazy cause back in the day I didn’t really have any money, and I

use to run into a lot of people in the industry who would invite me

out so I would just ride with them. My friends would be like “man

I’m not about to be riding around with no dude and I don’t have

no money so he’s got to pay for everything.” I had a different outlook.

I didn’t have any pride because I just wanted to make something pop

off. I was able to make some key relationships and keep those relationships

in good standing.  These people saw something in me too so it was

mutual.  

Kanye West and CyHi The Prynce: “So Appalled” Live in Brooklyn

AllHipHop.com: Tell

me how the mixtape game has benefited you best 

CyHi The Prynce: Well

my situation is crazy because I didn’t get signed the traditional

way that most artist get signed nowadays.  I didn’t have a big

street buzz, I didn’t have no song on the radio, and I didn’t have

a dance to go with my song.  All I could do was rap and everybody

knew that I could rap, but Atlanta isn’t known for the dudes who just

rap.  It was hard for me to penetrate the game with the style of

music that I had so I just kept stacking my music up. I realized that

I couldn’t just keep sitting on all this music and had to do something.

I was signed to a label, but sometimes the label wants to see you make

a move first. I didn’t exactly have the means to make a move first

so I started to put out music and then I got in touch with Greg Street

who really did a lot for my career.  He guided me in certain ways

and became my mentor which helped me to make the right decisions. 

I put out both mixtapes and they sounded like an album. These were the

songs that I wanted Def Jam to put out, but I couldn’t get them to

get behind it so I had to do it myself. That’s all me and my marketing

plan now imagine if Def Jam would have used the “Royal Flush” marketing

plan that I created on a much larger scale that would have been huge. 

But on my mixtape every song was a real concept that played out instead

of just a bunch of songs thrown in together.  

AllHipHop.com: Now you’re

signed to Def Jam, Konvict, and G.O.O.D. Music tell me how one rapper

ends up with essentially 3 deals? 

CyHi The Prynce: I was

already with Def Jam. Well the thing of it is I was signed to Akon,

but Akon is so huge that he’s beyond my genre of music so I had to

work something out to bring my music to the surface as well. What I

ended up doing was working out a deal with his brother Boo and we worked

it out from there.  Than when Kanye came into the fold it made

my music unstoppable.  

AllHipHop.com: You begin

Royal Flush with a segment from one of the most powerful speeches known

to man by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What type of overall statement

were you trying to make and hoping to evoke with the track “Ring Bellz?” 

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