When CyHi The Prynce was signed to Kanye West’s imprint label G.O.O.D. Music it didn’t go without the convincing of Beyonce, says the rapper in a recent Montreality interview.
The Georgia native appeared on the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy cut “So Appalled” after Ye flew him out to Hawaii while he was working on the project.
“I was supposed to write a hook and some ideas for the chorus and then it became this long ass dope ass beat as y’all have heard,” CyHi says. “I just started writing to it because I was so happy to be there and I wasn’t tired. Everybody left the studio. Ye went with his girl and everybody scattered and went to the room. So I just left a verse at the end of the song so no one could hear it and Ye himself leaves the beat running after he played it for Jay and Beyonce. He just leaves it running and my verse just abruptly comes in. They was like, ‘Who the fuck is this?’ He never heard the rap either. They heard it and was like, ‘Yo, that was the dopest shit ever,’ and she was like, ‘Yo whoever that is you need to sign him.'”
The L.I.O.N. rapper was consequently signed to the label in 2010.
Prynce also addresses ghostwriting in the rap game and breaks down why having a team of people working on an album becomes necessary when competing for Grammy-level accolades.
The G.O.O.D. Music rapper agrees initially an up and coming rapper should write his own songs but as they grow it becomes important to hire more people.
“What you have to understand about artists like Drake and Kanye is that they’ve already bodied Hip Hop,” says the 31-year old rapper. “They’ve already reached every plateau. Every BET Award, MTV Award, Grammy you can get for Hip Hop they’ve gotten it. Now, what I’ve learned is when you get to the Grammys and you’re going up against real artists like country singers. BET Awards it’s just R&B and rap. At the Grammys it’s jazz, gospel, country, pop, rap. It’s so many genres and they have 20 people working on their songs. So you’re in the studio trying to write this song by yourself but Whitney Houston in the studio or Adele in the studio with 20 people and she wins the Grammy or Sam Smith wins the Grammy because they have 30 people working on their project when you as a rapper feel like you can only work with yourself. So that’s what I think Meek didn’t understand in the cases of your Drake’s and your Kendrick’s.”
The full Montreality interview with CyHi The Prynce is as follows:
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Drake is hands down the best of our generation. Anybody who disagrees is just a hatin.
That’s what Drake said about Meek before the beef LOL
so it appears that he basically called out k. dot lamr as having a ghostwriter or at least a “team” of people helping him, interesting….
He don’t know shit about k dot writing and creating process I think he just mentioned his name up their as being top tier artist so don’t start rumers little boy smh talking about interesting
i wasn’t trying to start “rumers.” i just found it interesting he dropped his name. he could’ve easily not brought him up. oh wait you simple mind didn’t even register that? oh well, you’re obviously a big k.dot fan, nothing wrong with that he’s one of the dopest out right now. just a little fyi though it’s “rumors” not “rumers.” you might want to keep that in mind next time you to try to son someone…..
Rumers was the way I intended to spell it shithead its ebonics and I knew your lame ass wouldn’t identify, and the correct spelling of your name is Ho
damn! with a slick comebacks like that you’re wasting your potential posting all day on hiphopdx lol but you ducked the fact that he in fact could’ve avoided dropping his name. period. later lame. take the L like a man.
Yo take this L cuz you kno you fucked up wit “rumers” , be a man bout it bruh
Lmao okay ref you right my bad, good call
What I find interesting is Cyhi thinking Kendrick has ghostwriters because K. Dot is so dope at lyricism SO he thinks a bunch of ghostwriters are behind him, when there’s none. I take it this way ; ).
you might be right. it could be a little shade, i won’t argue with you there, it just felt like the fact he went out of his way to say that about him was what stood out to me.
Sure ! : ). Me too, I listened to the interview before this article, and when he said it I was stunned for a sec, I needed to replay to make sure of the name he mentioned lol.
Thats not the point though. Drake is claiming to be the greatest hip hop artist and doesn’t write his own material. He can be pop all he wants but he lost any respect he could’ve had from people that actually love hip hop. Not much considering his past yet he’s “gonna catch a body like that”.
I highly doubt it. Even the Biggie albums that came out after his death went platinum. Plus Big sold way more albums than Drake did. Big first two albums sold more than Drake whole catalog.
dont forget zombie. Kanye, Nas, Ghostface, Run DMC, Chuck D, Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest etc have all had collaborators and writers who have helped. Drake aint done nothing anyone else in hiphop hasnt
Maybe I don’t know too much about ghostwriters but I haven’t really heard any reference tracks or full verses come to light like they did with Drake. I like his music and all but he gets carried away. To me, his music is more of a fad. Its hot at the moment but I don’t catch myself listening to his music years later. He can spit but I’d never put him in the same league as nas or BIG.
Meh…. HOV uses credited writers on pretty much every song he does but everyone gets mad at Drake. Nas can’t afford credited writers, so he gets the bum down the street to write hits like Oochie Wally for 1/5th of henny.
You can call him soft or deny he don’t write his music which we all know damn well he do but His verses too personable and his music is timeless. I wouldn’t waste my platinum Verses tryna help none of the sly ass niggas. Niggas corny doe
Drake got more platinum albums than BIG
Funny, because Biggie still sold more records than Drake did.
And that’s why I’m convinced that hip hop fans are pretty much sheep. They follow whatever is hot and don’t really respect it as an art. Everyone nut hugging Wayne and following his whole “greatest rapper alive” movement was lame. Dude keeps dropping garbage left and right. Give me some little brother over Wayne or hov any day. Mainstream is just way too corny nowadays
so when lil wayne had gillie da kid basically write the carter 2, did hip hop blackball him and say “naw you lost our respect”……im pretty sure they embraced wayne…or are we just be overly judgemental wit drake cause of the reference tracks, cause i bet money there are multiple artist that have reference tracks, but we just neva gonna hear them
So is he sayin kendrick got a ghostwriter too? Whats he talkin bout the drakes n kendricks? Its only drake wit his ghostwriter
Stop being stupid aynalizing his every word and assuming stuff you idiot, that’s how rumers get started
Cyhi The Prynce very underrated
There is no way Kendrick has ghostwriters. NO WAY !
So you spell rumors pretty much your very own way on the Internet and call it Ebonics? You need to get off your computer you sound like an uptight nerd getting mad when he’s wrong.
Ya notice how hip hop dx post articles and interviews from artist no one give a fuck about? It’s cause the real artist with talent know this site is run by culture vultures and they give their time to real hip hop journalist and not these clowns no one in the hip hop world would even asscociate with.
frfr once I saw this site and Hotnewhiphop were run by whites I felt betrayed and bamboozled, we don’t own anything in the culture bro. They own the masters, studios, companies, radio, streaming platforms, tv shit is sad. Whites don’t want us to have nothing and profit from all we do
Sometimes these guys have straight up ghost writers other times you have organic situations when everybody is in the studio and your colleagues may have an idea to maybe switch a word here or there. That being said can we get some new music please? This guy is talented beyond measure.
I swear this story was posted like, two years ago…
Drake is not a lyricist, he is like an R & B artist and that’s fine, we just need to separate the two, and his fans need to stop trying to put him in a genre he don’t belong in…he not going down next to pac, nas, hov, kool g rap, etc, he can be the next Diddy, thats fine!
Can’t separate the two singing and rap music is a marriage unfortunately
I find it positive to see articles not talking bout k.west… no matter who it is