Career
He is currently signed to Akon"s Konvict Muzik, Kanye West"s GOOD Music, and Bu Thiam"s BuVision. Young appeared on West"s highly acclaimed album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and has released nine mixtapes, with the latest being BHP II: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2015), a conscious hip hop concept mixtape about the history of black people in America and the sequel to Black Hystori Project, released in February 2014. He was released from his Def Jam contract in August 2015.
Growing up in Georgia, Young played various sports including football, basketball, and track and field, in addition to singing in school choirs and participating in school plays and dances.
He was raised Baptist by strict parents, who didn"t allow him to listen to hip hop music as a youth. 2010–2011: Beginnings
Young first gained major attention in 2010 when he received a co-sign from fellow American rapper and hip hop mogul Kanye West.
This culminated in Young"s inclusion on West"s weekly free music giveaway GOOD Fridays and his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). He recorded his second mixtape, Royal Flush II, with producer CPK, and plans to work further with previous collaborators the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Number I.D. and Kanye West, as well as DJ Toomp, The Alchemist and Just Blaze.
Young released his third mixtape, Jack of All Trades, later in 2011, which announced the title of his debut studio album to be Hardway Musical.
2012: Cruel Summer
Young appeared on GOOD Music"s compilation album Cruel Summer, released September 18, 2012. Young was ultimately featured on two tracks, including: "The Morning", along with Raekwon, Common, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Kid Cudi, and Doctorate"Banj, as well as "Sin City", alongside John Legend, Teyana Taylor, Malik Yusef, and Travi$ Scott. On January 29, 2013 he released his fifth mixtape, Ivy League: Kick Back.
The tape features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, B.o.B, Travis Porter, Yelawolf, Childish Gambino, Trae Tha Truth and Bobby Valentino among others
Despite not being featured on Kanye West"s Yeezus album, Young has writing credits on all but one of the album"s songs. CyHi is continuing to prepare his debut studio album Hardway Musical for release.
2015 to Present: Label Confusion & L.I.O.N.
As of August 2015, CyHi"s album had yet to receive a release date. Frustrated with his situation and having been dropped from Def Jam Recordings, he released a diss track called "Elephant In The Room", aimed toward G.O.O.D. Music, its owner Kanye West, Pusha T and Teyana Taylor.
On the track, he addresses his album delays and even threatens Kanye: "While you"re in your little Lambo on Sunset, I"m riding with a gun next to me and it sounds like a little boy playing with a drum set / And, it holds a hundred rounds "cause when you come around, niggas quick to gun you down."
CyHi would later clarify that the track was not in fact a dissolved
Rather it was similar to the light-hearted "insults" that Eminem would inflict on Doctor Dre. An upcoming album to be titled "L.I.O.N." was announced amid this increase in media attention, still containing the G.O.O.D. Music imprint"s logo, further indicating that CyHi was still with the label, and on good terms.
