He has a legit claim to say he popularized that shyt in recent years, but yeah hes exaggerating.
At least part of this has to be him just trying to promote his new album?
Eh. Wale was doing walemania since 2015, which is a wwe/hip hop artist party during wrestlemania weekend. It literally was a gathering of rappers and wrestlers the same year gxfr burst on the scene.
Walemania happened same month hall and nash dropped, and rjght before gxfr started dropping left and right and the start of their ug buzz in 2015. Wale started showing up on wwe shows back then too. He was a way bigger artist with more buzz and pull than gxfr ever had, back then.
Smoke dza dropped 3 wrestling themed mixtapes up to that same time march/april 2015. Since, he released 5 more for a total of 8 wrestling albums.. and i mean wrestling albums by they are about wrestling while sampling themes. Actual albums
Bronson was calling himself bam bam, rapping about wrestling and tossing fans around on stage
Thats what i mean like they followed others’ trend, claimed it for themselves. This was already a trend in itself by the time they came out. All they did was use mad wrestling interludes to copy wu and name their tracks after them. Dzas the one who really took it there as a style.
So even if you wanna pretend it wasnt a thing in hip hop already and go by their era, They still didn't create the trend. Saying they popularized it when they sell shytty and all their releases are mostly ug never sellin over 50k… how popular are they to even popularize wrestling in hiphop? They just dont shutup about it so people take their word. As seen on thecoli.