Adam22 (Adam)

I mean, when you look at Benny the Butcher's views on YouTube, at least, which is only one way to judge something, but I looked at it after I watched this clip, and his music does very well.

It's like many videos with millions of views, which I have kind of pledged to stop judging people on their YouTube views because I know so many people are faking it, but it does feel like his fan base is pretty legit.

His stuff still does good.

Like, these fools is actually... Benny's sitting on almost 2 million monthly listeners.

His top song has 100 million plays.

I mean, it's like...

They're like regular rappers from the late 90s.

But they've just been dropped into the 2020s, and it just hits way different.

But stylistically, musically, et cetera, it's kind of hard to find that many differences between a Lox album, except for the fact that the Lox were trying to make radio records a large percentage of the time.

They're Mobb Deep.

Benny and them have the privilege of just making whatever kind of music they want because they got a cult fan base that's going to hoover it up.

That's an underrated part of why we're all so familiar with him.

Mainstream hip-hop paid more attention during that era, even if now he's not associated with it.

But the weird rappers from New York is not like Benny the Butcher.

It's David.

But I'm just saying, I wouldn't put Benny the Butcher into the weird rap category.

If anything, they're just... Well, A, they're from upstate New York, which is a totally different fucking world.

For sure.

Where maybe they wouldn't have became what they became if they were in the fishbowl that is New York City, where it's very, very hard to go against the grain.

Because every time you step out the door of your house, you got people wanting to call you weird.