Freddie Gibbs has played down his recently tense encounter with noted rival Benny the Butcher at an airport.
The two crossed paths in Paris and shared a few words but Gibbs denied that things were going to get heated between the two.
He said to Complex: “I mean, you saw me standing there. I was just in the airport. Everything that everybody tried to make out of it, that wasn’t true. I didn’t even really, barely even said a word. I was just standing there. I saw him just standing there. Of course, we ain’t in a friendship. What are we gonna do? I ain’t going to jail over that.”
Gibbs added: “The only thing I really said was ‘Aye, man, this ain’t the time or the place. I ain’t about to fuck my bag up.”
“A lot of this rap sh*t be on some WWF… It wasn’t nothing everybody was making it out to be. I barely said a word.”
Freddie Gibbs speaks on his recent airport encounter with Benny The Butcher.
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Benny and Gibbs, who previously collaborated together on two critically acclaimed singles, began beefing in 2021 after the “Crime Pays” rapper made a joke about the Butcher getting shot in the leg.
Not long afterwards, Gibbs was jumped while in Benny’s hometown of Buffalo before a show by a group alleged to be associates of the Butcher.
Benny recently squashed any idea that the two could reconcile.
“You don’t do that shit to people you cool with and that’s just it. I really don’t have no problem with him. He never done nothing to me in life. I have no problem with him. It’s just that I would be goofy. And the people I make my music for would look at me goofy if I would stand next to him.”
Gibbs has also made it clear that he has no intention of ending their beef.
“Just because I feel like I’m not on the level of that ghetto rap beef shit. I don’t care enough to solve a beef with a rapper. I don’t care enough. I don’t care about rappers enough. I don’t care about the rap game and what they think about me. I’ll let them care about that.”
Gibbs continued: “I’m so far removed from that bullshit in the streets. I’m about to be an esteemed actor and a mogul. I couldn’t care less about any of that stupid shit. To me, those guys are like comedy. I make jokes of these guys like that. And that’s why guys like that want to fight because they a joke to me. I don’t even take guys like that serious.”
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