Posted by Freddie Gibbs and the Griselda collective have formed a formidable partnership in recent years, with Gangsta Gibbs dropping several stellar collaborations with Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine and Benny The Butcher.
However, there appears to be a bit of tension brewing between Big Rabbit and The Butcher. During an interview with Brian “B. Dot” Miller for Spotify Greenroom’s weekly Hip Hop show Most Necessary: Live earlier this week, the BSF rapper dashed hopes of any future collaborations with Gibbs.
“Working with Freddie Gibbs came and went to be honest with you,” he was quoted as saying according to Spotify Greenroom’s Twitter. “It’s all love.”
Came and went lol
— Big ? (@FreddieGibbs) March 24, 2022
Freddie Gibbs caught wind of the tweet and replied, “Came and went lol.” He later jumped on Instagram to issue a more pointed response to Benny’s comments.
“N-gga said ‘working with Freddie Gibbs came and went,’” the ESGN rapper said to the camera while laughing. “I know some other shit that came and went too, n-gga … Just keep my name out y’all mouth, man, when y’all talking to people who are doing interviews and shit. Just say ‘next question, man. I don’t want to talk about that n-gga, man.’ Just say ‘next muthafucking question.’ For real.”
Gibbs didn’t delve any further, but his “came and went” rebuttal was likely a reference to Benny The Butcher’s latest album Tana Talk 4, which dropped earlier this month.
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Needless to say, a Freddie Gibbs and Benny The Butcher beef isn’t something fans want to see. “I don’t like this. Let’s reunite the band,” Miller commented on Instagram, while another user wrote, “Damn smh …both are 2 of my current top 5. I’m disappointed smfh.”
The bad blood between Freddie Gibbs and Benny The Butcher appears to have been brewing for some time. Last September Gibbs tweeted “it be hard for me to listen to n-ggaz after they got robbed”; months prior, Benny got shot in the leg during a robbery attempt in Houston.
The following month Freddie Gibbs tweeted “n-ggaz don’t put the cities they got robbed in on the tour dates” not long after Benny The Butcher announced The Burden of Plugs tour, which featured a show in Austin, Texas, but not Houston.
Then, in December, Benny let his own Twitter fingers fly when he cryptically posted several crying face emojis hours after reports surfaced that Gibbs allegedly took a beating from Jim Jones at a Miami restaurant.
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Freddie Gibbs also butted heads with Westside Gunn in 2020 when the Griselda general one-upped a tweet from his manager, Ben “Lambo” Lambert, celebrating the greatness of Gibbs dropping Bandana and Alfredo within a 12-month span.
“In the last year I dropped FLYGOD IS AN AWESOME GOD, HITLER WEARS HERMÈS 7, WWCD, & PRAY FOR PARIS but n-ggas wonder why I be on shit MFS be scared to act like GRISELDA don’t exist,” Gunn wrote. “Conway just dropped 2 in a month, and I love Freddie he’s on my shit and he’s Fam but STOOOP IT.”
Gibbs later threatened anyone who spoke ill of his manager by saying he’ll “throw yo muthafucking fam off a cliff bitch” in a video posted to his Instagram Story.
In the last year I dropped FLYGOD IS AN AWESOME GOD, HITLER WEARS HERMÈS 7, WWCD, & PRAY FOR PARIS but niggas wonder why I be on shit MFS be scared to act like GRISELDA don’t exist, Conway just dropped 2 in a month, and I love Freddie he’s on my shit and he’s Fam but STOOOP IT https://t.co/7RSSsKJ7Q5
— WESTSIDEGUNN (@WESTSIDEGUNN) June 7, 2020
In happier times, Freddie Gibbs and Benny The Butcher made a dynamic duo on “Frank Lucas” from Gibbs’ Grammy-nominated Alfredo album, followed by “One Way Flight” from Benny’s Burden of Proof project with Hit-Boy. There was even talk of the pair doing a full-length project together, Best of Both Worlds style.
During a 2020 interview with Bootleg Kev, Gibbs called Benny The Butcher “a dear friend of mine” and stated “I’m cool with them [Griselda] n-ggas” while downplaying the notion of a feud.