Benny The Butcher has vowed to drop the best Def Jam project since DMX’s groundbreaking 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot.
The braggadocious claim was made by the Buffalo rapper on Twitter, where he wrote: “Imma have the best Hip Hop @defjam album since DMX ‘It’s Dark & Hell is Hot’.”
To clarify how bold this claim is, Spotify’s Head Of Urban Music tweeted out that if Benny’s statement came to be true, that would mean it’d also surpass every Kanye West project from College Dropout to The Life of Pablo, JAY-Z’s Black Album and Blueprint, Jeezy’s The Recession and Thug Motivation 101, Pusha T’s Daytona, Scarface’s The Fix and YG’s My Krazy Life.
DMX’s It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot has been hailed as one of the greatest debuts in rap history. The project debuted a No.1 on the Billboard 200, moving 250,000 units in its first week, and has since been certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The last solo effort from Benny The Butcher was Tana Talk 4, which was also his first Def Jam project since signing with the label last November. Benny’s third studio album debuted at No.15 on the Billboard 200, moving 20,000 units.
Prior to the project’s release, the Griselda member also made a braggadocious claim and said it would be a heavy album of the year contender for 2022.
“While n-ggas be talking their shit, who wanna bet my shit go crazy when I drop Tana Talk 4,” Benny asked his fans in an Instagram video. “If anybody doubting me, who wanna bet? What we talking about? Who wanna bet me?”
He continued: “I know the same niggas who be talking that shit. What are we doing right now? Album of the year who wanna bet me right now. Album of the year for consideration before it even came out or even heard a single. I got 10 bands to anyones five, and I got 20 bands to anyones 10. Who wants to take that bet?”
However, Benny The Butcher’s signing to Def Jam didn’t sit well with fans at first, who worried the rapper might be in danger of selling out. Benny bit back at these comments in a separate IG video.
“You n-ggas who be in my DMs, who be in my comments saying like, ‘Yo, don’t let Def Jam do this’ or ‘Don’t let Def Jam do that.’ What y’all on?” Benny questioned. “What, you think a n-gga work this hard and was this self-made for this long to get somewhere and let somebody tell me, ‘You know what, you can’t do it like this no more, you gotta do it like this.”
He continued: “Y’all gotta use y’all fucking brains before y’all start thinking shit like that. I’m a boss. You feel what I’m saying? That’s how I got here, by making my own decisions, and they understand that so, stop saying shit just to say it.”
better get on a new sound. its dark was thumping
ITS THE BUTCHER CUMMING NI99A!!
Always under promise and over deliver. This is going to be a dud. He doesn’t make music that transcends. Illusions of grandeur.
There are so many things wrong with this statement.
ITS THE BUTCHER CUMMING NI99A!!
So how’s this album gonna differ from his past twenty projects he put out in order to live up to that standard? And dude from Spotify said exactly what I was thinking. Benny keeps talking out his ass.
So how’s this album gonna differ from his past twenty projects he put out in order to live up to that standard? And dude from Spotify said exactly what I was thinking. Benny keeps talking out his ass every time.
This guy thinks he’s bigger than what he really is… Nigga always gives me ‘im stuck in the 90s”, “imma real nigga’ vibes. I remember when he thought Shannon Sharpe not knowing him was disrespect lol #sensitivethug
You have to be confident in life, this is just an example of that. I really don’t think he meant any disrespect or to put any other albums down he just has confidence that he’ll make a great album. No big deal, it’s like an athlete saying they’re going for the championship. Not a big deal. But it’s a fact tana talk 4 was slept on it’s a great cover to cover album his best work imo
So why not just say “my next album’s gonna be fire” or some shit like that? But instead, he had to say “best album since DMX debut” which was put out 24 years ago. It’s fine to have confidence but he’s basically setting himself up for failure by making an unrealistically high expectation for his album.
You have to be confident in life, this is just an example of that. I really don’t think he meant any disrespect or to put any other albums down he just has confidence that he’ll make a great album. No big deal, it’s like an athlete saying they’re going for the championship. Not a big deal. But it’s a fact tana talk 4 was slept on it’s a great cover to cover album his best work imo
Every Kanye album hahaha his last classic was MBDTF
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah, dude’s got millenial crackbaby syndrome…
Benny saw what Def Jam does to “bosses”… ahem dropping Kanye for speaking out against the real “bosses”
These new rappers talk way more than thy spit
Lmao I like Benny but listen bro you surpassing x hov Jeezy etc knock it off
He better pray King Tekashi don’t drop. Dat album gone be hot till da King drop sum new heat. Watch dis space!