Benny The Butcher Shouts Out MSNBC’s Ari Melber—Rap’s Favourite Anchor

Benny The Butcher and Jadakiss teamed up for a brand new single referred to as “Pillow Discuss & Slander” that includes Babyface Ray. Taken from Benny’s Def Jam debut Everyone Can’t Go, the observe comes with a shoutout for MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, Hip-Hop’s chosen one. Whereas Melber was flattered by the point out, it wasn’t the primary time. Dave East additionally talked about Melber in November 2022 on the observe “Eyes Can See.”

By now, Melber has grown accustom to being embraced by the rap group—and “Pillow Discuss & Slander” is not any exception. In a clip shared with AllHipHop, MSNBC producers spotlight the road: “They know my physique/I’m on MSNBC speaking politics with Ari.” Additionally they embrace a clip of Benny’s look on The Beat with Ari Melber. 

“Benny and Jadakiss are as actual, unbiased and dope as MCs get, so this shoutout means a ton,” Melber tells AllHipHop. “Benny has mentioned it don’t all the time really feel nearly as good because it appears to be like — however this did! Bananas. And actual Hip-Hop has all the time been about reality. Similar for actual journalism, so there is usually a mutual respect there.”

Melber has absolutely ingrained himself in Hip-Hop tradition. In 2022, JAY-Z turned Melber’s 11-minute dissection of the “GOD DID” verse into an official observe on TIDAL referred to as “HOV DID.” Within the unique clip, Melber explored how JAY-Z’s verse encapsulated America’s failed drug conflict. He highlighted a number of parts of Hov’s lyrics, exploring the whole lot from the legalization of marijuana to Roc Nation’s Emory Jones serving 10 years for drug dealing.

“These traces shortly go from prohibition to a conflict on road medicine related to minorities … to fentanyl, an enormous driver of drug issues and deaths, which politicians don’t deal with criminally the identical manner they assault the medicine that Jay or others as soon as offered,” Melber mentioned. “I can inform you companies have revamped $10 billion promoting addictive painkillers legally, in order that’s a distinction.”

Melber concluded his breakdown with a callback to the Louis Farrakhan interview. He talked about an easy studying of JAY-Z’s bars earlier than stating his interpretation relating to the hypocrisy of the conflict on medicine.

“A long time in, this billionaire entrepreneur with confirmed success – measurable success – in music, media, sports activities, enterprise, regulation and politics nonetheless finds he should clarify primary details about American corruption and racism to elite and white society,” he mentioned mentioned. “And plenty of leaders and folks nonetheless don’t see or refuse to face it. That form of entitled ignorance, which may trigger actual harm to actual folks’s lives, effectively that may increase your ire. It would get your ardour speaking.”

One thing tells us Benny The Butcher’s point out gained’t be the final time we hear about Ari Melber in a tune. Take a look at “Pillow Discuss & Slander” beneath.