Benny The Butcher has vowed to drop one of the best Def Jam mission since DMX’s groundbreaking 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot.
The braggadocious declare was made by the Buffalo rapper on Twitter, the place he wrote: “Imma have the best Hip Hop @defjam album since DMX ‘It’s Dark & Hell is Hot’.”
To make clear how daring this declare is, Spotify’s Head Of Urban Music tweeted out that if Benny’s assertion got here to be true, that will imply it’d additionally surpass each Kanye West mission 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 many biggest debuts in rap historical past. The mission debuted a No.1 on the Billboard 200, transferring 250,000 models in its first week, and has since been licensed 4 instances platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Imma have one of the best Hip Hop @defjam album since DMX ‘It’s Dark & Hell is Hot’
— BENNY THE BUTCHER (@BennyBsf) October 28, 2022
That would imply higher than…
Jay-Z, Blueprint
Jay-Z, The Black Album
Scarface, The Fix
Jeezy, Thug Motivation 101
Jeezy, The Recession
YG, My Krazy Life
Pusha T, Daytona
Every Kanye album from College Dropout to The Life of Pablo https://t.co/BXLY3sAVyH— Carl Chery (@carlchery) October 28, 2022
The final solo effort from Benny The Butcher was Tana Talk 4, which was additionally his first Def Jam mission since signing with the label final November. Benny’s third studio album debuted at No.15 on the Billboard 200, transferring 20,000 models.
Prior to the mission’s launch, the Griselda member additionally made a braggadocious declare and stated it might be a heavy album of the yr contender for 2022.
“While n-ggas be talking their shit, who wanna bet my shit go crazy when I drop Tana Talk 4,” Benny requested his followers 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?”
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However, Benny The Butcher’s signing to Def Jam didn’t sit effectively with followers at first, who anxious the rapper is perhaps at risk of promoting out. Benny bit again at these feedback 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.”
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