In celebration of Jay-Z’s 50th birthday, Benny the Butcher took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes video of a listening session for Griselda’s WWCD that caused the Hip Hop legend to have a screwface hearing the steely bars coming from the speakers.
In the video, Benny and Westside Gunn are bopping their heads to the album standout “Freddie HotSpot.” Benny can be heard rapping “This for the Ps and my co-Ds, I’m a federal wit’/My lawyer told me to breathe, them charges never gon’ stick let’s go” while Gunn enters with “Ayo, we was baggin’ some big nigga came through clappin’/I ducked behind French, got the MAC and started (brr).” The lyrical assault causes Hov to enter the shot nodding his head and looking around the room to verify the heat he was hearing at that moment.
“Played WWCD for Jay before it dropped… Happy G day to a person who inspired a lot of us,” Benny says in the caption. Benny along with Gunn signed a management deal with Roc Nation back in August.
In the official review of the project, HipHopDX awarded the album a 4.5 rating saying “WWCD is arguably this generation’s 36 Chambers — a blueprint that a new era of hard rappers can now rever as a holy grail of modern street Hip Hop.”
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Do you think that the legend who made Reasonable Doubt would actually like nursery rhymes delivered in a high pitched nasally voice? That’s not a genuine reaction, just a businessman plugging his artists.
He is, as he stated, ” a business, man”
Jay was older than most rappers when he released his debut, he was 27. WSG and Conway are both 37 and just now getting their props above the underground. I like their shit, but let’s not act like this is the beginning of a lucrative rap career for them.
And you’re just a nigga leaving a comment boy lmao. What type of haterade shit is that to say?
He made that face cuz Conway farted lol
I really don’t understand you motherfuckers. You don’t like Eminem, you hate on mumble rap, you hate on coke rap, Drake is a clown, Cole is a lame, hip hop is dead, fuck Nas. WHO DO YOU MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE????? Do every single one of you just like 1 rapper and EVERY other rapper is a clown? Every single comment thread with this bullshit. If Hip Hop is dead it’s cause dumb fucks like you killed it.
Settle down, Beavis
You do understand that the people saying these kinda stuff are not the same persons, right? Not everybody who dont like em thinks drake is a clown, not everybody who thinks cole is lame dislikes mumble rap etc. Do you understand the concept of different people having different tastes??
My problem isnt different people having different opinions, my problem is that these comment threads are ALWAYS filled with haters and whats worst I don’t even mind hate if it starts a interesting conversation about the music but 999 out of 1000 times it’s just another dumbass making a stupid ass joke. Fine they’re free to make stupid jokes and I’m free to call them dumb fucks.
Hater! cause by the one’s who dont think positive ,,Haters got power too !!That is to get from under jealious spirit,We all could do bettter,??
Maybe people are tired of the same old shit? GXFR are dope but they aren’t reinventing the wheel, they rap about coke and designer clothes and every song has sounded pretty much the same for 5 straight years. it’s nearly 2020 rap needs super heroes there is fucked up shit happening all over the world riots, poverty, death, kids killing each other over lame gang shit we need artists who make people think about the world they live in not promote murder. LITERALLY every song WSG he has a least one line about killing someone right “Flygod got a couple bodies on the pole” and “fire out the nozzle got 8 niggas hit the lotto” so either he’s a piece of shit thief and killer or he’s a liar? That goes for a lot of rappers maybe people waking up to the fact that when a black kid kills another everybody in hip hop acts sad then makes a song about killing other black people it’s time someone called out the dumb shit.
HATE SELLS!
Best song on there.
Griselda is just what the name says.. Griselda Blanco was a ruthlessly savage drug lord who murdered ppl(kids too) for laughs.. That energy is encoded in the music.. She is the spiritual muse for their music.. Every time they say her name, they channeling that energy.. It’s called a incantation.. . Stupid Mfs don’t realize that.. This music is pure nihilism.. That’s the whole point.. So to come asking for some positive music from a group named griselda records is some dumb shit.. If you ain’t a nihilist or have nihilist thoughts then maybe you shouldn’t listen to this shit… These nagas aint on some save the babies shit.. They are musical savages.. I think alot of ppl don’t get that so it limits their appeal to a niche audience.. I been to a griselda show.. It mostly chaotic minded street dudes and white ppl who are attracted to that chaos energy… Griselda records is a less commercial more savage G unit
Prolly the most insightful comment on any hip hop site this year.
Artists with a particular muse will have that resonate with their music.
From Outkast’s affinity to Southern lifestyles & left-field thinking, Wu tang’s connection with Eastern philosophy and street life to more recent acts like the Odd Future collective basing their aesthetics on edgy lyrics and suburban American angst.
Shut the fuck up. You sound stupid. It’s music.
You specifically mentioned child murder like that makes her hard or them for identifying with her.. no it makes them weirdos.
I’ve been in jail I’m not some happy clappy church motherfucker who wants positivity from there music but i’ve seen the things you and they speak of in real life and it made me sick to stomach and if they too aren’t just lying and really lived that shit and they’re response is to act like that’s cool or acceptable even after they’ve made enough to get their families out of that than their probably real life scum bags and from the way Gunn talks about himself in tweets and interviews “I’m the greatest ever I rebirthed the culture nobody fucking with GXFR” etc he’s an arrogant prick and I doubt very highly any one in that crew is researching the Carl Jung psychological implications of nihilism. your just adding pretentious Shit that would never occur to them they just rap whatever they think is “hard” which to a nine year old child soldier is just a fucking lighthearted nursery rhyme.
They make THROW back Golden ERA GOON RAP !!!!!
Griselda camp brings that old Grimy NY sound back !!! Hardest shit in the streets.
Benny and 38 Spesh are at the top of the Food Chain when it comes too the street talk Rap…And i LOVE it !!!