CyHi The Prynce would still choose a dinner with JAY-Z over $500,000, despite the legendary rapper’s recommendation to the contrary.
Taking to Twitter on Monday (October 24), the former G.O.O.D. Music rapper retweeted Gayle King’s new interview with Hov where she got his take on the long-running debate — and said he’d still take the dinner, citing Jay as the reason Kanye West wanted to sign him.
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“I’m taking the meeting with @sc aka Jay z,” CyHi said. “I don’t care what y’all say 500k aint no real money and most people who would take it Has never made any real paper!!!! I’ve made more than that annually the last 13 years of my career and that was after I met with Jay Z.”
After a fan asked about if his high income had come as a result of JAY-Z, he continued: “Yes he told Ye to sign me [shrug emoji] and got on so appalled and I got a pub deal for a half of ticket plus touring plus royalties and a salary. I was broke when I met jay z I had 1500 dollars to my name. I just had got evicted from my crib and I had to borrow money from @GregStreetV103.”
The topic was reignited on social media this week after a fan caught up with Hov himself and informed him he’d take the money. Gayle then got the Brooklyn native’s advice during an interview, and he explained why he too would take the cash.
“You gotta take the money,” he replied with little hesitation. “What I’ma say? You got all that [wisdom] in the music for $10.99! That’s a bad deal. I wouldn’t tell you to cut a bad deal. Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums — it’s all there!
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“If you piece it together and really listen to the music for the words, for what it is, it’s all there. Everything that I said was gonna happen, happened. Everything that I said I wanted to do, I’ve done. There’s the blueprint. The blueprint, literally, to me and my life and my journey is there already.”
Rick Ross also disagreed, saying that picking the brain of the Brooklyn billionaire is more valuable than pocketing half a million dollars.
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“I’ma take the dinner and I’ma tell you why,” Ross said in a video posted to his Instagram Stories. “In ’08 when I turned in my second album [Trilla], I had a meeting with Hov. We went to lunch. Philippe Chow, Manhattan — the orange chicken on the stick with the peanut sauce was the vibe at the time. Let me cut through the conversation.
“He said: ‘Rozay, versus writing to every beat you like, write to every record you could make work.’ He told me a quick story about ‘Big Pimpin.’ I said, ‘Okay, bet.’ I went from writing one record to every 80 beats I like, to writing 40 records out of every 80 beats I could make work.”
Rozay credited Hov’s advice with helping him level up as an artist which, in turn, brought him more success in the rap game and laid the foundation for his other lucrative business ventures.
“It took me to another level as a writer, another level as an artist,” he continued. “The amount of work I was putting out was next level. So you gotta ask yourself, are you ready to digest the knowledge or you just want to look at this watch at the table?”
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The “$500K or dinner with JAY-Z?” debate originally hit social media in 2021, with fans contemplating what would be more valuable. Even Hov’s former streaming platform TIDAL weighed in by telling fans on Twitter to take the money.
