Benny the Butcher not happy with how nerds have taken control of the culture

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

The “nerds” are Griselda’s entire fanbase their the ones buying the vinyl, overpriced merch, buying tickets to the shows

Not to mention the nerds that own your masters & decide how to allocate spending on your projects/tours

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

of course thecoli.com would reflect hit dogs hollerin


but it's not over yet big Benny. last time i checced it was pirus running ish
and that was after attack of the nerds (ak, drake, adin) too!
never forget.

 

[O.Red]

Benny would be nowhere without nerds the fukk is he talking about

Rapper ego really is amazing

 

[LOOPY]

*Benny is a nerd

 

[lib123]

its safer for benny to say "nerds" instead of white people lol

lol the “nerds” have always been in control as far as profiting off the culture.

 

[Nostalgic]

nah Chicago had a mega run. I say when 69/Casanova ended.

69 and Casanovas NEVER reached the heights of 50 Cent career.

 

[BandOfGypsys]

Don't spit in the well you drink from. It mainly sounds like he is crying that YouTubers are the new stars instead of rappers.

That's the problem, he needs to put an address to it! Name exactly who you're talking about.

 

[u mad son?]

God forbid someone wants to hear lyrics other than bricks and snakes.

At least Conway and gunn does it with style and swagger. This dude just raps average drug bars with above average lyricism and thinks he's top 5 DOA

 

[BK The Great]

Conway is a better MC and has rapped about other shyt than the same boring stuff over and over again.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Most of his fans are actually the people he's complaining about.

And he's an idiot, but he's right.

 

[BK The Great]

 

[dh86]

When an artist hates his own fanbase. Everyone I’ve ever heard listen to Griselda in my life were nerdy or nerd adjacent

 

[Houston911]

Stop it.

Benny literally said that there were cons to when the streets had a hold om the culture. He's obviously talking about when Gangster Rap really took off in 93 all thru 50 Cents reign. The conscious era of 88 - 92 did not have a street element at the forefront. You did not think of "the streets" when Kid N Play Fresh Prince and MC Hammer were running things.

Doesn’t matter what you thought about when those guys were running things though

Regardless of what they promoted, they were still street dudes

 

[Houston911]

Did y'all even listen to the clip posted in the OP? When referencing "nerds" he was talking about how the Twitter voices are a thing now when dictating the culture in comparison to when the performance of the artist in the streets determined who had real merit. He's refereing to the DJ Akademiks types.


But Bennys argument has holes. Dave Mays (The Source) wasn't street and neither was Elliot Wilson (XXL) and they were the nerds dictating the culture back in the day. Plus Benny has overlooked the fact that drill rap has been a thing since 2012 and gang affiliated music has been prevalent since. There has been a voice in support of drill rap for a while now because it had a long life and trap music had a life before that and still does. Plus the biggest consumers of Hip Hop music has always been white people who mostly aren't from the streets like that.

I wouldn’t compare Dave mays and Elliot Wilson to someone like akademiks. akademiks is a bigger name than most rappers

The average person didn’t know who Dave mays or Elliot Wilson was

 

[Rekkapryde]

He's right. You'll never hear raw straight from the corner masculine energy in hip hop like this again

Pete and CL's first (only) 2.5 albums >>>>>>