Former G.O.O.D. Music affiliate CyHi has shared a brand new tune airing out his grievances with the Kanye West-led label. The six-plus minute “The G.O.O.D. Ole Days,” which CyHi stated on social media chronicles “my aspect of the story,” addresses the rapper’s relationships with Ye, Travis Scott, Child Cudi, erstwhile label president Pusha T, and extra. Take heed to it under.
Produced by Mark Byrd and Phil Blackman, “The G.O.O.D. Ole Days” is structured as an interview with the podcast and radio host Gina Views, and opens with various questions together with “What’s your present relationship with Ye—is there one?” CyHi proceeds to put out his ideas on G.O.O.D.’s previous decade, acknowledging that West is accountable for a lot of the upheaval on the label however rapping: “Sometimes Kanye might be a bit troublesome / I get it, however I perceive him another way / Y’all simply know the gorgeous darkish twisty Ye.”
Addressing Scott, CyHi alleges that their relationship soured when, after co-writing Scott’s 2018 smash “Sicko Mode,” he couldn’t get the Astroworld rapper to document a visitor verse for him in return. “After I helped him along with his album, it went like 11 [times] platinum,” CyHi raps, “however I nonetheless ain’t received my swap and he mad that I am even askin’.” CyHi additionally touches on his reference to Child Cudi, which he says suffered throughout the rapper’s 2022 public dispute with West. “It may have gotten actual ugly / They stated that Ye nearly fucked round and killed buddy,” CyHi raps. “And that is why they relationship remains to be muddy / And I am caught between all of it.”
Of all of the artists talked about on “The G.O.O.D. Ole Days,” Pusha T receives probably the most favorable shout-out, with CyHi calling him “the realest” and evaluating his work with the label to when Colin Kaepernick “took a knee for the staff.” “He by no means took a charge, he gave me them verses and hooks free of charge,” CyHi says. “We stayed tight by way of all of the G.O.O.D. Music beef, ‘trigger we each discovered about loyalty within the streets.” CyHi concludes the monitor by teasing a brand new album, The Story of Mr. EGOT. It will likely be his first correct LP since his 2017 debut No Dope on Sundays, which featured Scott, Cudi, Ye, Pusha T, and extra.
CyHi signed to G.O.O.D. in 2010, shortly after showing on My Lovely Darkish Twisted Fantasy’s “So Appalled” and fewer than a yr earlier than the label entered into an unique distribution contract with Def Jam. Over time, G.O.O.D.’s roster has included Massive Sean, John Legend, Frequent, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Teyana Taylor, Desiigner, Valee, 070 Shake, Kacy Hill, and extra. The label’s manufacturing arm, Very Good Beats, additionally counted Evian Christ, Hudson Mohawke, and Charlie Warmth amongst its in-house producers. CyHi left the label in 2015, and later signed with Sony Music.
Def Jam ended its affiliation with each G.O.O.D. and Ye in 2021, after the discharge of Donda. Pusha T, who was appointed G.O.O.D.’s president in 2015, introduced in 2022 that he had stepped down from the position. Talking with XXL on the time, Pusha T defined that he was not on talking phrases with West, and disavowed antisemitic remarks West made throughout an look on Alex Jones’ Infowars. In January, West apologized for his inflammatory feedback and erratic conduct over the previous few years in a full-page Wall Road Journal advert, attributing his actions to mind harm he sustained throughout a 2002 automobile crash.
