It's chicken that's fried, then bathed in a mixture of hot oil and a blend of spices.

So I've been in Nashville about six years now, and princesses really are Go to for hot chicken.

I can't wait to show you all what Princess is all about.

This is so delicious you'll find variations all throughout the city.

But Princess Hot Chicken is where it all started.

I visited the restaurant last summer with my co host, Alana, when we were filming Best Hot Chicken in Nashville.

For best of the best season to the flavor explodes.

It's not just hot this time, though.

It's all about princes.

We're going to talk about the history, the culture and the heat.

Since the early two thousands new restaurants specializing in hot chicken started opening up all across the city.

While I'm sure it's it's great to be duplicated and other restaurants chains popping up and putting their spin on it, nothing still compares to the original This'll is Miss Andre Prince.

She is the owner of princes and the great niece of the man who first sold hot chicken.

Well, they call me Chicken Queen Point.

How did Hot Chicken start with the mad mad woman?

Almost 90 years ago women didn't really voice their feelings, but they acted it out.

The story goes that Miss Andres great uncle came home late one night very, very late.

And to show him how angry she was, the woman he was living with at the time cooked him up some fried chicken, the spiciest fried chicken anyone's ever seen and decided she was gonna put something out.

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So that's why I give credit to the woman.

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He liked it enough.

Thio start a business with it.

According to state archives, Thornton Prince set up B b Q Chicken Shack in 1936 the first time hot chicken was sold to customers.

It's still going on today.

Hey, all of the locals know about Princess Princess.

Hot chicken has been a staple in the black community forest.

Long as I can remember, even before I moved to Nashville just grew by word of mouth.

And of course, back then people of color didn't have too many businesses.

I'm sure the word spread throughout the community, and it just became a stable in the neighborhood.

The popularity eventually reached white people when the restaurant moved in the late 19 fifties from the corner near Tennessee State University to near the Grand Ole Opry.

The Grand Ole Opry of Nashville can't be through a time of segregation.

Way had a lot of Grand Ole Opry people that would come in, and after the shows and sit down, they came in through the back door.

And, of course, they came in through the front door.

Since the restaurant opened, its been kept in the family.

Miss Andre took over in 1980.

Well, it's been four generations.

We always stayed in the family, and we hit family members working there.

What were the things that you changed or added to the business?

It was called Barbecue Chicken Shack, but I don't ever remember the chicken being barbecue.

That's why I changed it.

It was one way that one way was the mile chicken, but I started the different variations.

Plain hot, medium, extra hot People wanted their Children to eat it where does the heat come from?

Well, the main thing that we always say, it's, uh Chi on high on this, the basis that first part kind of gets you a little bit.

Oh, my gosh, I mean, let me let you get in.

Look it here.

You can squeeze it.

The best part of the hot chicken for me is the crust.

It is so crispy, so full of flavor, where some of the other spots, they're just hot for the sake of being hot.

With the rise in popularity, Hot Chicken has become a Nashville specialty.

And one of the things to that we talk about here in Nashville a lot is that the hot chicken has become gentrified, and some of the other places have sort of taken over the popularity off Hot Chicken in Nashville.

For more perspective, I called multicultural expert Marie, suing the popularity and expansion and two other restaurants and on other menus, probably when they came in the last 10 years.

My name is Marie suing, and I am the senior vice president of diversity and inclusion for the National Convention and Visitors Corporation.

How do you think Princess reputation and legacy spread throughout the community and the world.

I think for something special like this to become a phenomenon, if you will think community has to embrace it, right?

And so it grew here.

Locally, the flavor explodes.

It's not just it's not just hot.

National has many hot chicken restaurants now, or restaurants that have hot chicken on the menu.

And I do believe that's paying homage to Princess.

Any chef that makes Hot chicken knows where it's coming from.

If you're gonna do hot chicken in Nashville, one thing you need to do is kiss the ring.

Everyone knows what it started, and there's one person in town that you gotta pay homage to, and that's Miss Andre.

I keep coming back to Princess over and over and over again.

The crust on the chicken, the hot pickles, the bread, the seasonings, the flavor.

Everything is just so good.

While restaurants both near and far have tried to replicate, Prince's Hot chicken princes continues to be popular not only for its delicious hot chicken but the story behind the dish.

How do you carry his legacy through the restaurant?

I continue to be open and serving it hot.

How you carry it.

Uh, that was my intention to keep something in them in the family, mom and pop places.

I just disappearing due to big business.

Competition is good, and it gives you more recognition because everybody wants to.

Wants to know where did it start?

Hey, they got to come to trance hot chicken.

That's where I'll start.

Oh, people always curious.