The MC you know/knew as Cyrano (aka Cy Yung) sent over this e-mail, and I figured I'd rather just post it verbatim, as opposed to trying to paraphrase his words:Wassup friends,
Been a hot minute since I've sent any music out, but big things are coming before the end of 2009. Most importantly, the death of "Cy Yung" is officially starting. As some of u know, I have dealt with confusion surrounding my alias because there are other "Cy Young"s or "Cy Yung"s currently competing for the limelight in a already over-saturated HipHop industry market. In my opinion, this has led to a number of cross-references, improper taggings & posts, discussions, etc surrounding whois who and what music is attributed to what artist. No more...
I am removing the Cy Yung from my posts, and I ask that u do likewise. Although the other people using the same name was my main reason for changing this, it wasnt the only reason. The other catalyst occurred more frequently, when I was priveledged to find out that my name wasnt large enough to garner common courtesy from other "underground" rap artists, especially when it comes to album concepts, titles, etc. Therefore, it has become immediately necessary that I dismiss any baggage from my previous rap persona that may be deemed as similar to any of these fake-ass niggaz (Black, White or otherwise) supposedly dedicated to HipHop as a culture or art form.
Needless to say, the market has turned most of us (friends, fans and purveyors of HipHop) into leeches and slugs (pardon my pun). What we do now is seek ways to make $ off of our passion, instead of walking thru the mobs with our crosses on our backs and earning our stripes. Now we can end up on the biggest stages in the world MONTHS after doing our 1st song, we can end up making an album devoid of anything socially, morally or ethically responsible and be lauded as the messiah simply for having the most "airplay" or "downloads"...its really pathetic how WE have become the THEM in US vs THEM...
So it is with a somewhat heavy heart that I accept my personal apathy towards music's decay and decline, and take the 1st step towards renewal and reclaim...
Hi, my name is James Ebron, and sadly, I'm a rapper.
See, we claim to be "HipHop artists" because we listen(ed) to Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince or Brand Nubian & Pete Rock & CL Smooth & Digable Planets & ATCQ & Biggie & Masta Ace & BIg Daddy Kane & Wutang & KRS ONE & blah blah blah...oh, and we never killed nobody so our "discovery of finding ourselves" thru a mind-numbing catalog of songs about 1) our mamas, 2) our gfs (or bfs for the female emcees, and I use that term loosely for men or women) 3) the system, 4) the good old days, 5) and shall I not forget the "creative" songs, either stolen templates from our predecessors OR half-ass attempts to "enlighten" or "entertain" by flipping a metaphor OR using repetitive phrasing or references in a quasi-cool way...
NIGGAZ PLEASE
We all deserve to die...Sweeney Todd said it best.
The world is not changing BECAUSE of us, its changing IN SPITE of us. Truth is, for all our ramblings, social networks & digital downloads, we cannot turn society on its ear. That monumental change we supposedly had so much to do with last November? Where's the HipHop part of Obama's administration? Where's our seat at the table? We are watching from the same seats as the Republicans who lost, waiting for senators and administration follies to dole out what our lives will be like for the next 4 years...
WAKE UP ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!
Your blogs are nice, u keep us more informed than newspapers ever could...but for pete sakes, your opinion sites and posts are about as relevant and powerful as Terrence Howard losing his part in Iron Man 2 (speaking of which, is NOBODY concerned that you can make quadruple what a person who gives his life for this country makes just by reading and memorizing a script and PRETENDING you're saving the world OR having sex with somebody hot)????
"Allow me to retort..."
THE REVOLUTION BEGINS 11/9
BORN ON 9/11
FORMULA 4 09
CYRANO IS JAMES Q PUBLIC
SOUL TRAIN DANCER
The party's over...now u gotta suffer the hangover!
I know what finally set this off, and figured this was coming. Here are a few tracks he sent with the e-mail:
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