“It’s not just to shine a light on Larry Hoover, but other victims of this system. “This system for sentencing, this prison system rooted in racism, it’s time for change,” he said. (Reps for both Ye and Drake declined to comment for this article.) But Prince has a bigger cause in mind.
There is nothing that you can go to him about that he wouldn't consider helping you with."īringing Drake and Ye together was no small achievement. He is so calming - people go to him with things that may compromise them professionally, that could ruin them financially. "He's really good at managing egos, managing men and keeping them focused and holding them accountable.
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"You can call him the full foundation of hip-hop in Houston," said Bun B, the rapper and UGK member who signed to Rap-A-Lot in the mid-2000s. His decades of label experience and empathetic, cooling personality lends him gravitas in hip-hop like few others. Ye told me, ‘I never had someone speak to me like this, these words of truth and realness.’ I could read his heart, and that’s hard to run from.”Īs Houston continues to reel from the Astroworld crowd-crush tragedy - where Drake performed as Travis Scott’s guest and is named in several lawsuits - Prince is one of the few figures whom the city's storied rap scene, one that influenced Drake and Ye alike, trusts implicitly.Īs Rap-A-Lot's founder in the mid-'80s, James Smith's vision for slow-rolling Southern rap and unflinching storytelling gave the world Geto Boys and UGK, and influenced acts as big as hometown hero Beyoncé. “But I wasn’t gonna walk away from an invitation at a place of that magnitude. Coliseum, where the two artists will perform, part Monsters-of-Hip-Hop reconciliation and part prison-reform fundraiser. “I didn’t plan on being there at all,” Prince said of the meeting with Ye, which he recalled two days before the Thursday "Free Larry Hoover" concert at the L.A. "Both me and Drake have taken shots at each other, and it's time to put it to rest.” to address the ongoing back and forth between myself and Drake," Ye says in a video from the chapel, flanked by Prince.
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