Well I know he is not really royalty but the Prynce has made
his return. CyHi The Prynce has released his awaited Ivy League: Kick Back. This
is the sequel to the first Ivy League in which I have not heard so I can’t
compare them. I’ve heard a few CyHi tracks before and one mixtape which was “Royal
Flush 2,” and I loved it. While I may not know the full capability of the
Prynce but I do know he has lyrical abilities.
After the intro and interlude of a college student asking
CyHi where to find some weed while they are on campus, the first track is “Mary
Jane” featuring Smoke Dza. The song is sampled from Rick James’ funk original “Mary
Jane.” The song is not a hard song to decipher the title alone should let you
know what this is about. CyHi speaks on his longtime relationship with Mary
Jane and how selling weed contributed to a lot of his tokens that he possesses(ed).
Smoke Dza’s verse is not of my favorite
lyrics from him but he does have a few lines that were nice.
“Far removed” is a Lex Luger produced track and is one of
the stronger tracks on the mixtape. This track is a banger and some nice
lyrics. The audio places you in a mindset in a gangster movie in which shit is
about to go down, it is very dark. The visuals are also a nice story to the
song. CyHi is letting rap niggas in the industry he still about that life. He
is not far removed from that thug life and he keeps the tooly with him. Bottom
line, rap is an option. This song is very hot and I love his flow on it.
The next track is “Start a War.” This may very well be one
of my favorite tracks along with “Young rich fly famous” featuring Childish
Gambino. In the first verse CyHi goes into his past about his boy that was just
like him and how close they were, but his boy chose the street life which
resulted in his demise. CyHi admits to
never seeing his demons and thinking about it while he is playing dead until
the killers drove away. The second verse is going into his reaction of his boy’s
death and knowing who killed him. The man who killed him was the brother of this
chick that his partner used to talk to. “Word on the street he knew this bird
named Patrice/ he sold her brother a couple pounds of herb and a key. I know
where he stay, where he serve, where he be/ swerve hit the curb in a blur he
asleep *gunshots.*” The third verse he is wondering whether he should ride with
his boys to get revenge on his boy’s killer. He compares himself to feeling
like Trey in “Boyz N the Hood” when he was in Doughboy’s impala to get revenge
for Ferris killing Ricky. CyHi makes the same choice as Trey and gets out of
the car to try and prevent a war, in which the song is titled.
There are a lot of features on this mixtape to make it a
nice listen. There is a track with Big K.R.I.T. and Yelawolf titled “We drink We
smoke.” If you know of K.R.I.T. you know he does not disappoint and his flow on
this track is beautiful. We here at BITM support artists like Big K.R.I.T. for
President. That was a very nice feature. Other features on this mixtape include
2 Chainz, B.o.B., Travis Porter, Canji Taylor, and Trae the Truth. Overall, the
mixtape is an okay piece of work; there were valleys and peaks to this project.
I think that CyHi is capable of putting out better work and I was not impressed
by this mixtape. I’m giving it three tapes.
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