Cyhi The Prince said he’ll continue to stand with Kanye West through thick and thin — no matter what comes out of his mouth.
The rapper opened up about his relationship with Ye during a recent interview on the Bootleg Kev podcast. “That’s my guy, bruh,” he said. “That man saved my life.”
CyHi then explained why he seemingly gives West a pass when he says controversial things that the public often calls him out for. “Me, I’m privy of the conversations behind the scenes,” he explained. “You know when he says what he says in the public, I’m a lot more privy to the full conversation so he gets to explain it more to me versus the public who justs gets a little clip or a little bite.”
The rapper continued on, explaining that when you’re around him, what he says is “delivered a lot differently, but people don’t get to see that much of him.”
CyHi’s perspective on Ye differs much more from his former fellow GOOD Music labelmate, Pusha T, who wants nothing to do with him. In June, Pusha detailed the issues that he has with his former collaborator during an interview with GQ.
“His intuition is even more genius-level, right? But that’s why me and him don’t get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him,” Pusha said at the time. “He knows I don’t think he’s a man. He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
In Complex‘s Clipse cover story earlier this month, Pusha reflected on the recording sessions for Ye’s Donda when he realized he was done being cordial with Ye.
“It is just a whole host and a cast of characters,” remembered Pusha. “There are a lot of great ones who were there and who were contributors. And then there are a lot of people who are not that good, and they’re just around, and they’re around for no reason, and they’re like the backbiters and the people who have hidden agendas and so on and so forth. But you surround yourself by all this chaos. It’s not for me. It just wasn’t for me.”
After hearing that Kanye West missed their friendship, Pusha responded indifferently. “I don’t care about that at all,” he said. “It’s fine. I’m sure. I would miss me, too. I really would.”
