Benny the butcher claims Upstate snatched the crown from NYC.....

[L. Deezy]

cuz outside of old heads, nobody's checkin for bars like that. Teenage brehs out here singing Sexyy Red songs in public livin their truth. They ain't really on Benny like that.

I agree..but I was taking Benny comment to mean a certain demographic. Not kids

 

[KingTxo]

There hasn’t been a new rapper in 20 years from NYC anyone gave a damn about

Wasn't Pop smoke gaining a lot of traction before his death?

 

[tremonthustler1]

I agree..but I was taking Benny comment to mean a certain demographic. Not kids

Benny was at Dyckman earlier this summer just takin in a game, and the DJ started playing an album cut of his and the crowd was like yooo play that shyt again


it had me wondering how Benny's not reaching the type of people who legit fukk with his style of music. If I knew that was the reaction the park was gonna have off some Everybody Can't Go shyt, I woulda paid the DJ to play Broken Bottles, play a whole Benny set.

but alas, went right back to playin Cash Cobain, Fisherrrrr

 

[BK The Great]

he's a paint by numbers ass rapper too

Nah Conway is better

 

[LOOPY]

Hoes would walk by these nikkas in the subway

*damn so you saying them lil spanish thotties ain't bumping Tana Talk 26 in Dyckman?



£

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Benny was at Dyckman earlier this summer just takin in a game, and the DJ started playing an album cut of his and the crowd was like yooo play that shyt again


it had me wondering how Benny's not reaching the type of people who legit fukk with his style of music. If I knew that was the reaction the park was gonna have off some Everybody Can't Go shyt, I woulda paid the DJ to play Broken Bottles, play a whole Benny set.

but alas, went right back to playin Cash Cobain, Fisherrrrr

What song was playing

 

[Escobar305]

Benny and Spesh don’t miss. He right

 

[ISO]

His music is for a certain niche

I lived in his city on and off for years that’s not what they was on

So to say “upstate” has the crown is

 

[Neuromancer]

Well, a lot of Upstate New York artists have been putting in work since the late 2010s.

The 90s-era NYC artists will always hold the crown in regards to NY (East Coast in general) Hip-Hop.

There are a few current NYC artists I fuk with, like Roc Marci, Rome Streetz, Joey, and a few others, but Upstate rappers have been more prolific within the last 8 years or so if we're not counting the OGs, such as Nas, for example, who has been on a hot streak for the past 6 years just about or some of the other OGs like LL, Rakim, etc releasing records.

When was the last time Joey made a song?

 

[Zero]

Yea at this point I'm off Benny, zero growth as an artist. Same flows and subject matter every time. It's the same template for rhymes lol...

You know the plug from Boston, my hands be frostin'
For those dollar bills these hoes be flossin'
Lil nikka want my diamonds it's gonna cost em

And read like them internet text rappers who used to highlight their multisyllabic rhymes with hyphens

 

[ISO]

There hasn’t been a new rapper in 20 years from NYC anyone gave a damn about

Yeah this ain’t true obviously

If only NYC rap was as dead as ya bozos on here say it is

In real life this young nikka whose probably not even top 5 new NYC of the last decade or so touched more paper, do bigger shows, and sold way more albums than these dusty kingpin boom bap rappers

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Upstate NY don’t count when we talking about NY in a collective

 

[surv2syn]

He is right as far as getting light but there are a lot of NYC guys that are lyrically potent they are just an underground. No one else in NYC getting that much light besides Rome. Eto, Che, da Cloth all in my rotation.

 

[banner34]

Upstate will never snatch the crown from nyc