J.I IS REALLY THE PRINCE OF NEW YORK

was first put onto J.I. when he was still performing under the stage name “The Prince of New York,” but he admitted to me that it was never the name he was supposed to bring with him to cable television. The moniker actually arose from his old Instagram handle, but once the Lifetime network opted to dub the then-14-year-old as The Prince of New York in front of millions of people, he simply decided to go along with it.