FEATURED Benny The Butcher: The Streets No Longer Run Hip-Hop, The Nerds Do

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I dont know if drill is dead or not, younguns are always gonna be putting out music and sending for their 'opps' via music but yeah regarding your second part, thats my point... Benny and GxFR arnt making music for the 'current version' of the streets or the teenagers... Its for 35+ dudes who find it nostalgic...

They are the age of elder statesmen... Most other rappers their age make music for fun and have transitioned to other avenues, such as big business and podcasting etc
Shit man ain’t no money being put into Drill no more

Every thing seems low budget these days

The issue is the Griselda crowd got bills and kids so they ll prolly never get the sales and the bag they think they deserve
 
Shit man ain’t no money being put into Drill no more

Every thing seems low budget these days

The issue is the Griselda crowd got bills and kids so they ll prolly never get the sales and the bag they think they deserve

They saturated the market and run out of things to say too... They had fans spending CRAZY money on merch and vinyl at one point, maybe they still do???

I always tried to keep up with projects when they were on CD but over the last couple years I kinda tapped out and got bored of them...

Crazy because I was a huuuuge fan going back to like 2016 and was happy as fck they blew up and made money but every project just became too samey over the last few years...

I really thought Conway and Bennys music had started to evolve and get more introspective which was dope but it kinda halted and went back to pyrex raps...
 
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I think Westside is abit too emotional to run a label, didnt he fall out with Mach, Hus and I think Conway and Benny too over label issues??? Think he also had an issue with Roc Marci and Stove too... He coulda had made GxFR a modern day Roc or Def Jam had he got younger rappers involved and had played things abit better... Though working with family is hard tbf and all 3 main rappers wanted to put sh!t out at the same time...

Also seeing West arguing with his fans on IG all the time was sad as fck, like he cant rise above or ignore any criticism or haters... People clowned him for his handbag and he got mad as fck and was calling dudes broke they couldnt afford a 20k handbags lmao

This is why I hate when celebs get social media, you find they as corny as regular people!!!
 
The vast majority of people aren't which is why that pov has always been misguided. The fan base that made street rappers successful wasn't other street niggas.
Plus niggas got it so backwards... The motivation to hustle is to GET OUT the streets...


These niggas hustling just to embrace the streets...

Like don't try to get in streets now that you hot.... if you were already away from that element... Stay away. Niggaz really want the world to be harder than it needs to be


Not one person from the streets wants to deal with street mentality in the corporate world. Why would you want shit to move backwards??
 
You ain’t know all them white folks were Italian, Irish, and Russian mobs

It's groups like this is why I always side eye people who specifically say hip hop/rap music engages in a celebration of violent/criminal culture as if that's not a staple of the entire planet let alone the US.
 
Damn, why ya'll attacking his beard and hairline instead of debating what he actually said, anyway...

Benny is 1000% correct. The majority of rappers, at least from the 90s onwards came out of two buckets: street niggas like 50 Cent, Master P who were really in the streets also street adjacent niggas that was ear hustling and rapped about real street nigga stories like Rick Ross.

The other bucket was the backpack rapper def poetry played an instrument in high school rapper like common mos def kanye. They appreciated the rap art form and studied rap eat sleep breathed rap.

The rappers that are popular right now are from the suburbs, these niggas got their surf boards bus/train/plane ticket ready to ride anything to make a quick buck and generate clicks, think Post Malone drake zeddy will, all them YouTubers that rap.

The suburban rappers aren't rapping to make it out of the hood or for the love of rap, shit is a money-making hobby, aint no passion or care in it.
 
The issue is the Griselda crowd got bills and kids so they ll prolly never get the sales and the bag they think they deserve

Thats another thing, everyone thinks they deserve Taylor Swift money no matter their product or fandom.

Idk whats hurting their pockets more, people not buying everything they do or their ego.
 
Damn, why ya'll attacking his beard and hairline instead of debating what he actually said, anyway...

Benny is 1000% correct. The majority of rappers, at least from the 90s onwards came out of two buckets: street niggas like 50 Cent, Master P who were really in the streets also street adjacent niggas that was ear hustling and rapped about real street nigga stories like Rick Ross.

The other bucket was the backpack rapper def poetry played an instrument in high school rapper like common mos def kanye. They appreciated the rap art form and studied rap eat sleep breathed rap.

The rappers that are popular right now are from the suburbs, these niggas got their surf boards bus/train/plane ticket ready to ride anything to make a quick buck and generate clicks, think Post Malone drake zeddy will, all them YouTubers that rap.

The suburban rappers aren't rapping to make it out of the hood or for the love of rap, shit is a money-making hobby, aint no passion or care in it.
I feel that

Why he wait until he was 40 to say this?

Also this whole thread is a huge overreaction to him just saying something in passing while waiting for his mans to bring him bourbon chicken from the food court
 
You conveniently leaving out

Offset
Future
21 Savage
NBA YB
Kendrick
Carti
Lil baby
Gunna
NLE
Big X
Kodak

The streets still represented.
 
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