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Benny The Butcher Defends Violent Rap Lyrics

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Benny The Butcher took to his Instagram Story, Thursday, to defend rap lyrics from critics who feel they’re too violent. The Griselda rapper argues that the same people wouldn’t listen to the music if it were positive.

Writing over a black screen, Benny instructed haters to “shut the fuck up.”

“Most people who say rap is violent or don’t like rappers talking about drugs WILL NOT listen to [that] same rapper if he/she makes what they deem to be positive music,” he wrote. “so shut the fuck up and leave it to the people who like it.”

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – OCTOBER 01: Benny the Butcher attends the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on October 01, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)

The statement comes after Benny and his Black Soprano Family shared their latest single, “SAINT MAURICE,” on Friday.

Benny is far from the only rapper to take a stance on violence in rap music as of late. With the prosecution in Young Thug’s upcoming trial planning to use his lyrics as evidence, the topic has been on many people’s minds.

50 Cent gave his take on the matter during his Hip Hop Homicides show.

“I think it’s the same energy but we’re in a different period so it looks different,” he said. “It’s gonna happen where everyone can take a look on camera. When Nipsey gets killed, for the first time they saw him get killed.”

He continued: “Because of social media, everyone’s involved now. Because those kids in middle America are clicking the fucking button to look and are fascinated with the killings because they’re living on a side so wild compared to the conservative lifestyle they’re having.”

Check out Benny The Butcher’s “SAINT MAURICE” below.

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Pusha T & Metro Boomin Complain About Misinterpreted Lyrics

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Pusha T and Metro Boomin vented about their frustrations regarding misinterpreted lyrics online. Both artists have released new albums in 2022.

As for Push, the It’s Almost Dry rapper was responding to a “best albums of 2022” ranking. While he thanked the blog for the acknowledgment, he complained about them getting his lyrics wrong.

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 02: GRAMMY-nominated Artist/Executive/Entrepreneur Pusha T speaks at a panel discussion during The Recording Academy Washington DC Chapter’s Intersection of Music & Sports event at the Kennedy Center on March 02, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Recording Academy )

“Appreciate the ranking…but so many incorrect lyric interpretations,” he wrote on Twitter. “We need to have a talk… understanding may push my ranking up.”

The writer had misinterpreted the lyrics to “Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes.”

As for Metro Boomin, he says that fans on TikTok have also been misunderstanding Takeoff’s lyric “No sleep, X out the Z’s” for “asap disease.” Takeoff appeared on Metro’s song, “Feel the Fiyaaaah,” which also featured A$AP Rocky.

“I spent hours typing out the lyrics to every song so that you all would have the right information and someone in an office somewhere STILL managed to upload the wrong shit smh wtf is a pink front bezel,” he tweeted on Thursday.

“The correct lyrics should be up for all songs now. My brother Take really rapped A-Z and said ‘No sleep, X out the Z’s’ not ‘asap disease,’” he wrote, before continuing, “They got kids out here making thousands of tik toks with the wrong lyrics.”

Pusha T released It’s Almost Dry back in April, when it debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Similarly, Metro just shared his newest LP, Heroes vs. Villains, on December 2. The project is expected to challenge Taylor Swift’s Midnights to do the same.

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