Benny the Butcher crowns Conway The Machine as the best lyricist in the rap game.
Benny the Butcher is on the promo run for his upcoming new album “Tana Talk 4”, which is scheduled to drop next month on March 11th. The newest Def Jam signee made a visit to Complex Bracket as the guest on their series premiere. The rapper was made to pick between several top rappers currently, to choose one as the best lyricist in the game. The list includes the likes of Cordae, JID, Drake, Lil Wayne, Freddie Gibbs, Nas, Lil Baby, Big Sean, Wale and more.
“John Woo Flick,” a new song from Conway the Machine, has been released. The title pays homage to the famed Hong Kong action movie director, and features his colleagues Griselda members Benny the Butcher and Westside Gunn. It’s the first song off the Buffalo rapper’s next album, God Don’t Make Mistakes, which will be released on February 25.
In the final, the two MCs left were J. Cole and Benny’s cousin and fellow Griselda rapper Conway The Machine. “Like you said, there’s no wrong answer,” he says before picking Conway. “Listen, I want none of y’all my peers to be mad at me about my picks, there’s no wrong answers. Conway the Machine, I’ma say this, I don’t know who could outrap Conway, if they just here rapping with no beat playing. like line for line, bar for bar, I don’t know if anybody could survive that onslaught of bars and terror.”
Benny explained how he obtained a line from Black Thought when asked how he got it:The same way: I hit him up. I know from mutual parties that these dudes are tapped in and aware of the music, so it’s not like I’m shooting in the dark. The top-tier artists of the game are always tapped in. That’s why you can see a dude like Drake do a song with a BlocBoy JB. So I tapped in with him and he hit me right back. The joint was fire and the chemistry was crazy.
He continues, “J. Cole went crazy [on Johnny P’s Caddy], he’s a class act, he shows that he could stand with the best.”
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