Benny The Butcher has proclaimed that he’ll be voting for Donald Trump, prompting more than a bit of backlash from his devoted fanbase.
On Saturday (August 12), the Buffalo, NY native took to Twitter to make his voting preference be known, which didn’t exactly please his fans.
His proclamation was quite simple: “I’m votin Trump 2024.”
Check it out below:
The backlash against the Butcher was swift, with many commenters pointing out that Trump’s policies weren’t exactly friendly to Black men and women.
“The bigot comin’, n-gga,” wrote one commenter, alluding to Benny’s famous catchphrase and mixtape series, The Butcher Coming.
Others, however, supported Benny The Butcher’s dedication to Trump, but cautioned that he may be up against some tough political forces for his proclamation. “Did you consult with Jay and the Democratic Party before posting this?,” wrote another commenter, referring to JAY-Z.
Some commenters just wanted the “Johnny P’s Caddy” rapper to shut up and rap. “Just drop the album we dont wanna hear this,” a third person wrote.
None of the commenters, however, realized that Benny The Butcher’s comment may be much ado about nothing. According to the ACLU, many states do not allow convicted felons to vote, and the Griselda Records rapper admitted to getting convicted of three felonies when he was younger.
So depending on which state he calls home, his vote may not count towards a potential Trump election.
But this isn’t the first time he’s has had issues with his felony convictions. Back in 2022, he revealed that his scheduled shows in the U.K. had been canceled over a then-recent felony conviction he’d just picked up.
“UK shows canceled based on ‘old FBI reports’ and a new felony charge I just caught last week tht y’all won’t find out about until my documentary,” he said at the time.
During a March 2021 interview with HipHopDX, he talked about leaving his drug dealing past behind to focus on his rap career.
“I got into it being from a neighborhood that was blanketed with it,” he said. “The whole history of the neighborhood was about drug dealing. It was a drug dealing block and I was a born on that block. When my mom birthed me, I was brought home from the hospital on that block. So the hustlers outside was doing what they was doing.”
He continued: “As I grew up, those dudes was my friends, those dudes turned into my brothers, so I did what they did. It’s just the path I chose at the time. I got three felonies. I’ve been back and forth, in and out of prison.”
More fake news, nowadays the word ‘fans’ means 1-5 people tweeting about a certain topic
Orange man bad… Grrrrrrrr 😡
Not sure if this shows fans turning on him. If the 3 tweeted replies 1 was against it, one was for us, and the 3rd didn’t care. Which seems very reasonable for Twitter.
They scream for diversity. As long as it’s not diversity of thought.
Great move fans
Testing the water
Trump bad man. He speaks bad things about good Mexican people. He is devil. Obama my man. He a very good president. He speaks no bad things. He only drop bombs on Afghanistans, Syrians, Lybians. He only crushed Venezuela. Very good black man. He is my brother. And Biden very good too. He send weapon to poor Ukraine people to fight bad Russians. All Russians bed. Tolsroy, Dostoyevskiy, Medeleyev, Pushkin all bad man. Biden good. Fight for peace. More weapons make peace. Salute,
I dont pay for music these days, but if we was still in the CD era, Id buy this man’s CD just for him not being a puppet of the liberal victim mentality.
Mans does sell cds, you’ll just get scammed tho for it 😂
Don’t like Benny but great choice on Trump.
I’m not surprised for the following reason:
#1 – Lot of rappers are conservative as fuck.
#1 – Way too many rappers are just too ignorant when it comes to society, finance, politics and how those topics relates to each other. Being from the hood doesn’t make you good at understanding society, it only makes you good at understanding your hood.
#3 – Some rappers just don’t have enough pride to not support those who dislike just for being who you are as along as they think that support will benefit them financially.
I’m not surprised for the following reason:
#1 – Even if it might sound funny, lot of people from low class background (black, asian, latino or white) are conservative as fuck.
#2 – Way too many rappers are just too ignorant when it comes to society, finance, politics and how those topics relates to each other. Being from the hood doesn’t make you good at understanding society, it only makes you good at understanding your hood.
#4 – Some rappers just don’t have enough pride to not support those who dislike just for being who you are as along as they think that support will benefit them financially.
Hip-Hop always had a fight the system element. Back in the day the power of right party politics was very well established and fighting the system was a lot about being anti-racist and anti-corruption.
Sadly now it’s a fight against the ‘system that wants to impose some mw modem degenerate values’, so conservative people is even happy to turn a blind eye on corruption
Orange Man Bad 😡
Dems have a low IQ, yet stats show they are the ones who usually end up getting higher education. If you look at the education levels state by state, the bottom 15 are Red states. But who needs facts….
under Trump:
The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%.
After-tax corporate profits went up in 2020 = 53.9 percent and unit labor cost went down 7.9 percent. Compared to 1979-2019 averages = corporate profit was 11.4 percent and unit labor cost was 61.8 percent.
The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went UP. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 40.5% from 2016 (trump had to bail out the farmers = 26 billion cost to the taxpayers).
The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion (trump increased it 7.2 trillion in 4 years).
Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% in 2020 compared with 2016.
Handgun production rose 12.5% in 2020 compared with 2016, setting a new record.
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
Over a million Americans died due to COVID-19.
January 6 = based on Trump’s lie, he incited an insurrection that damaged our historic Capitol and 140 officers were wounded.
BAHAHAHAHAHA such lies. now do biden.
@LBJ – What specifically in there is a lie? This is statistical data that we all have access to, you just need to spend time to actually research shit yourself instead of blatantly following others. I don’t like Biden either. I don’t think we should have 70+ year olds making decisions for a future they won’t even be a part of. I don’t suck the dick of politicians like the red hats do.
Most of that was because of COVID. The economy was booming under Trump until COVID happened. There wasn’t 10+% inflation year over year. So yeah, acting like any of that was caused by Trump was a lie. Acting like the COVID deaths are on his hands is stupid. Saying he “incited an insurrection” is a lie.
@gplz – Covid didn’t happen until his final year in office numbnutz. His massive tax cut was 90%+ benefit to corporations and the extremely wealthy, that’s why they had such huge profit margins and why we added so much to our national debt. India has 4x the population (1.4 Billion) of the US (339M), yet only half the COVID deaths (44M compared to our 108M) – studies have shown the countries that took it seriously and had a unified plan, not drinking bleach, didn’t have nearly the percentage of their population die. He kept a lie going that the election was stolen from him for months… in fact, he said before the election (and before the 2016 election) that if he loses its’ fraud, but if he wins it wasn’t. He had 60 court cases prove there was no fraud, yet he kept the lie going to rile up his base. He got them fired up, asked them to come to DC, then told to march to the capital and fight like hell. Then he waited several hours to say a thing about it or call the national guard. All of the information coming out about his 80+ felonies wasn’t because democrats set him up…. his own republican admin is flipping on him. The grand jury has a 90% conviction rate, and again he now has 80+ felonies he’s going to be tried for. If you think it’s all one big lie, then it’s a lie that was brought on by his own people, which is highly unlikely. Use your gottam brain.
Trump a ballsy bastard. I like him. I used to be all blue but fuck all that noise. Democratic side of shit is all messed up and lies. Red ain’t that much better but they way better.
Any entrepreneur or self made business should vote Republican. The Dems want you broke eating cricket cookies outchea.
I commend Benny for not giving a fuck, it’s ok to disagree shit, that’s the concept of this entire country everybody!
Hiphop site with a bunch of extremely young, non black folks praising and worshipping a so called man that is the equivalent of their version of the ultimate gangster. Y’all wear clithing and put bumper stickers on your car supporting a guy who only cares about himself. He is very clear about that.
I don’t care about dem, rep, independent etc. I ain’t never seen people so bent on hate against everyone. Y’all would destroy yourself to see the world burn.
A bunch of hell bound clowns.
Hiphop site with a bunch of extremely young, non black folks praising and worshipping a so called man that is the equivalent of their version of the ultimate gangster. Y’all wear clothing and put bumper stickers on your car supporting a guy who only cares about himself. He is very clear about that.
I don’t care about dem, rep, independent etc. I ain’t never seen people so bent on hate against everyone. Y’all would destroy yourself to see the world burn.
A bunch of hell bound clowns.