Joe Budden has put Benny The Butcher on the hot seat regarding his claims of bringing acclaim to Griselda in a verse he rapped on 2022’s “Johnny P’s Caddy” off his album Tana Talk 4.
In a interview with Joe Budden on Conversation Lovers Only, both rappers started by discussing the nature of how the track came into fruition. The Buffalo native then told Joe Budden that he didn’t change his verse on the record, even though J. Cole delivered an exceptional verse himself. Benny The Butcher then touched on the “validity” line he spit on the track.
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“This what that line is really towards,” he began. “It’s toward the fans. It’s when you coming up under a two-headed monster, or whoever is ahead of you, or whoever laid the path for you. For me, West and Conway, my family. A lot of people be be thinking like, ‘where do I fit in at?’ I dealt with that. That was something that I dealt with. People acting like I never brought nothing to the camp.”
“And this Eastside shit still in me/My ability to turn words to imagery prolly the reason they gon’ remember me (Let’s talk)
Figure me, walk this tightrope with a feline’s agility/The streets did so much shit to me, I can never live civilly/I can never leave the scene without checkin’ my mirrors visually (Mm-hmm)/Come with that energy ’cause some shit gon’ always stick with me/They wanna know what I brought to Griselda, I say, “Validity,” Benny raps over the fiery track.
Benny The Butcher then went on to tell Joe Budden that people’s perception of him not bringing anything to the Griselda collective still rings true today.
“They hated Burden Of Proof. When that dropped, that was Griselda’s biggest selling record at the time,” he continued. “Highest place on the chart at that time.”
The 38-year-old then said that because he doesn’t always make “traditional Griselda” music, fans and critics don’t always give him the credit he think he deserves.
Benny The Butcher may not feel as though he’s getting his just due, but he recently crowned himself the “King of America” in an unreleased song he teased online.
Benny posted a snippet of the brash forthcoming track to his Instagram Story last week as he traveled into Europe as part of his Thank God I Made It World Tour.
“King of America Buffalo n-gga/ Okay I said it/ I hear the rappers claiming the crown, if you want it you gotta come get it,” he raps through the car’s speakers while challenging his peers and moving through Dublin. “Walk in that bitch spending catch so there ain’t no need to run up my credit/ We the Sopranos bitch!”
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The Butcher also gave fans a taste of another hard-hitting tune that he rapped along to in the back of his ride.
“There’s a story behind that name when they call me the Pyrex Man/ Like them two bricks from Dug and poppies from Kazahkstan/ I never sold meth but I know fent 1,000 yams/ You OD off this shit if you bag and don’t wash your hands,” he rhymes.
