CyHi “Off The Porch” Interview
We recently sat down with GA legend CyHi for an exclusive “Off The Porch” interview! During our conversation he spoke about how he got into making music, jumping off the porch when he was 14, hanging out with a lot of older folks when he was a teenager, lessons he learned, the difference between being a boss & a leader, starting to take rap serious when he was 18, a lot of labels & rappers wanting to sign him at the time, signing his first deal with Def Jam & Akon, coming up with concepts for his songs & albums, his song “Stutter” catching Kanye’s attention, coming up during the mixtape era, his experience going to Hawaii to work on Ye’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dark Fantasy’, being featured on a song with Jay-Z, the struggles artists face today to try & create a buzz without using the streets, starting his own label EGOT, his thoughts on RICO charges against artists, his classic album ‘No Dope On Sundays’, writing for other artists, going through a near-death experience last year, his new EP ’EGOT’, working with Big Bank on “Slide”, his upcoming album, his relationship with Pusha T, explains why he considers himself the best rapper alive, and much more!
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Cyhi is that dude, definitely my favorite! He’s slept on for no reason. He’s wrote a lot of people top songs!! And cuz bars is outrageous, give him his flowers now!
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I think Cyhi is this generation’s Pac. He’s poetic like Pac but way, way more lyrical!
You blew my speakers with slide. And I ain't even mad lol
I had to check out stutter. Nice…
Za34 out of Alexandria La got the city on fire. Song “can’t feel it”
Been My Guy 💪🏾
Time stamps????
In my top 5
Much Gratitude
The 🐐🎧🎤🔥
36:20 they weren’t at school cuz they were buying shoes that’s bullshit your struggle is real stuff you wasn’t getting Jordan’s 😆 I fucking was worried about where we were going to live and feeling like a pos cuz you know your momma ain’t eating enough but insists that you eat up man these rappers are some of the softest people out here what is he talking about.
The 🐐
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Favorite Rapper of my time plus I rapped with cyhi bar for bar in the studio back in the days and he shocked the fck out of me cause I was used to dudes running out bars but he kept going I knew then he was a special talent 🔥🔥🔥 fast forward hit him up while I was locked up and he sent me a jewel while I was in the darkest time in my life I never asked him for any handouts or nothing he will forever be my guy he’s a solid dude dopest Eighty!!!
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Cyhi been Super DOPE‼️‼️💪🏾🔥🔥🔥
If that's okay with you? "O"
How can I see/ meet you? "O"
CyHi is so important to hip hop. I can’t wait for this next album. The streets waiting!!
Fun Fact: I almost slept on #NoDopeOnSundays
I listened to it a couple months after it dropped.