2024: The Year Hip Hop Changed Forever

[@KingBenny]

In regards to Meet The Grhams vs Family Matters discourse: While both tracks lie, I think it's about how the lie is used that makes it two different things. FM lies but it doesn't make a big deal out of it, MTG is built around the daughter reveal and I think should be penalized if that daughter reveal feels weak. I still think MTG is great in terms of what the purpose of the song is and the character analysis that it does on Drake, however, partly bc I hold kendrick to a different standard than I do drake (in the same way that a bad game for LeBron is not the same than a bad game for the average all star) I don't think MTG ages as gracefully as every other kendrick song.

[@Goated_Durk]

@KingBenny To defend MTG, he could either know that he actually has a daughter, or he's making an assumption about him having another child due to his past with p*stars. Also, there has been some research showing that Kendrick's claim could be true. (Also the daughter could be a metaphor but I doubt it)

[@leobien0717]

@@KingBenny the biggest thing with these two songs is in family matters. Drake is talking to us and meet the grahams Kendrick is talking to Drake.

[@mikevilla8230]

Show us where Kendrick lied though?

[@roshiiirohoe]

weakest part of this argument is it disregards the rest of the song. Dot had four verses on mtg and Drake rapped thru like four beat switches and all yall are worried about is a couple bars from each song. mtg was a stronger diss period even if you take out the daughter verse.

[@KingBenny]

@@roshiiirohoe what im saying isn't MTG is a bad song as a whole though. I think a song can be strong all around and then have a bit that makes it age bad? isn't that fair?

[@matthewsengendo6302]

Meet The Grahams did not age terribly it is really devious and diabolical

[@KingBenny]

Yeah but idk... the whole you have a daughter thing is kinda hard to ignore. He didn't even leave it open ended enough for someone to be like "the daughter is metaphorical"

[@medbeth9857]

​@@KingBennyI don't understand your argument. Following your logic, FM aged well to you bc you deem the DV and illegitimate child allegations to be true or likely to be true? How do you judge the worth of a disstrack by the validity of the claims but absolve drake's contribution of that criticism?

[@maroastaansunkissastallaka1150]

@@medbeth9857there’s 3 verses on FM. First one is just some gossip drake and ovo crew came up with, 2nd one doesnt even target the main guy, made purely to keep up the ”20v1”-agenda going on. 3rd one is hard but the same criticism with the daughter-verse from mtg, no proof. MTG still has the 3 verses that are counted as ”legit”.

[@sw33tialucard]

@@KingBennythat doesn’t even make any sense because you also said Family Matters is one of the best diss tracks of all time but he made some allegations that have no proof or backing too? You’re an instance of when people say fact checkers are ruining rap battle 😂

[@KingBenny]

@@sw33tialucard well its two different types of lies is the thing. In MTG a big portion of the song and something that Kendrick was clearly trying to get the whole Push reaction. Drake didn't come off as someone that believed what he was saying on FM. Now heart pt 6 is a different story though bc that's when he was trying to get shit off fr fr. Like idk, on FM Drake is moreso making observations/making jokes rather than outright making accusations.

[@esmooth919]

I love how you're saying that Meet the Grahams aged the worst because of Drake's "alleged daughter," completely disregarding all of the sexual misconduct allegations that actually hold some weight, In addition to the severe dressing down of his entire character

[@KingBenny]

there was no disregard of those allegations lol. I just think that MTG could've been more effective or just cut out the section of the daughter entirely and has aged the worst of at least all of the kendrick songs in the sense of it not holding the weight that it did the night that it dropped when everyone did believe that drake was hiding another child. Like idk, maybe I'm in the minority but compared to NLU and Euphoria at least, MTG really fell off in terms of how devastating it seemed on the night it dropped

[@thecosmicblueautie]

@@KingBenny It has its moment when people discussed a girl named Eternity Joy, an alleged child who is also a Carti fan.

[@Wretched777]

I still think he got that daughter. Dot just got clips in the chamber

[@koolaidsalad]

@@KingBenny bro why you getting flamed in every reply

[@Oversoul-u6v]

I think MTG was the song that actually put drake on his ass. Like low key that was the diss that had people begging drake to respond bc before then it was all people saying kendrick wouldn't respond. That was actually kind of a turning point

[@deepfryent]

heh, i guess you could say we thought it was dead..

[@KingBenny]

yes... yes you could lol

[@thecosmicblueautie]

Nicely done!

[@N1ni-x8y]

If your talking about Tyler then I hope you find yourself

[@esmooth919]

​@@N1ni-x8yIt seems many people are taking their mask off this year... Except for Drake

[@radioactiveseaotter]

@@N1ni-x8yI hope you take your mask off

[@_NoHandle_]

*Extremely hypocritical* to say "Meet the Grahams" aged the worst because of the unproven daughter verse and then LIE that "Family Matters" aged the best when *nothing* Drake said about Kendrick - him beating his fiancée, or her sleeping around and having a kid with his friend, have been proven. This video seems to fall right in line with the new narrative of pretending that "Family Matters" aged well when we ALL know that it didn't.

[@KingBenny]

Timestamp when I said Family Matters aged best? I legit said it wasn't even Drake's best song. But anyways, the reason why MTG ages worse is bc the daughter thing is supposed to be the gotcha. Family matters works without the angle of Kendrick beating his wife which doesn't take up as much space as MTG's daughter thing where Kendrick dedicated a whole verse. It's also that I expected drake to lie on Kendrick... but didn't the other way around in such an obvious way

[@shaneilellis9832]

But Kendrick still lies , just saying.​@@KingBenny

[@koolaidsalad]

@@shaneilellis9832 and Drake does as well. and so does every other person who lives

[@shaneilellis9832]

@koolaidsalad that's not what I was saying.

[@NigerianPrince-r3m]

You seem a little salty over there

[@qb335]

One Day I Will Tell My Kids Back In The Day Kendrick Lamar Saved Hip-Hop In 2024.😭🔥🙌🏿

[@KingBenny]

Cause lowkey... you not wrong

[@ChethanR-th2dc]

Back handed compliments​@@KingBenny

[@onemicyeehaw1583]

The daughter accusation worked out just fine in MTG. Not because we know if it's true or not but it really cemented into people's minds in the moment and made them forget about anything drake had to say in family matters

[@KingBenny]

yeah thats kind of why i say that MTG worked. It couldve only worked in that moment though bc if not ppl wouldve not tolerated the daughter thing being fake

[@koolaidsalad]

@@KingBenny stop liking your own comments it won't help you not get ratio'd

[@onemicyeehaw1583]

@@koolaidsalad you're silly

[@SergioCheco25]

Docheii? JPEG mafia? We are missing a lot. This video was just about the beef lol

[@KingBenny]

I didn't rly care much for doechii tbh... I know a lot of ppl are hyping her up (and admittedly she is growing on me) but she rly wasn't defining of 2024. Jpegmafia on the other hand I thought dropped last yr for some reason and u messed up

[@sheryll1536]

ikr? ‘Alligator bites never heal’ is too good

[@the_J-777]

i hope 2025 gon be the year people value music for its content and not for its marketability, with the way the industry is falling apart rn i hope we will finally get some real art once again

[@Msonelifeatatime]

Great video! 1. Hip hop was never dying, slowing down yes, but would never die. 2. MTG did exactly want it was supposed to do, step on Family Matters with truth and/or lies and that’s okay because it’s hip hop. Rappers are known to lie about their lifestyle, money, crime, etc. 3. This things about a song “aging badly” is a crazy take and takes away from hip hop being about storytelling when we start dissected truth vs lies. This battle was not just about one song but about strategy.

[@syxph3r]

bruh why tf do people keep fixating on the daughter shit on mtg HE SAID SOME WAY WORSE THINGS ON THERE LETS LOCK IN

[@KingBenny]

True... but it's just cringe worthy until further notice

[@sw33tialucard]

Exactly, take out that verse and MTG is still a disrespectful, disgusting diss track. What are we talking about? He started with “Dear Adonis”😂😂

[@KingBenny]

@@sw33tialucard and thats not wrong either... If Kendrick had stayed on that rather than the daughter angle MTG would be a top 10 diss track, for me it's prolly more like top 25ish

[@koolaidsalad]

@@KingBenny so you're saying if kdot would've deleted the craziest verse on the diss track that it would've been better and hit harder? you're schiz my guy

[@missb6810]

@@KingBennyA diss track isn’t a courtroom testimony. Shut up with this angle when you didn’t hold Drake to the same standard with his lies.

[@Mikeymike1191]

I’ll be honest, I was with you until you said what you said about MTG. I respectfully disagree because I have never known rap battles to be about anything other than attacking the other person. Drake did exactly that on FM and threw out a bunch of allegations that have not been proven at all. Just because Drake denied having a kid doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one. Also, there were ALOT of other things said that made the daughter info the least important part of the song.

[@KingBenny]

That's fair. For me it's more so about MTG being built around the lie rather than the lie just being another part of the song. It's just hard to ignore the fact that Kendrick rly thought drake had a daughter and it looks like he was probably wrong ab that yk?

[@Mikeymike1191]

@@KingBenny yea I can for sure see him adding that piece just for the shock value though, not just because he believed it. Regardless of who told the truth I am just happy we got to be a part of this moment in history!

[@tylerhackner9731]

2024 was such a step up in quality in comparison to last year

[@KingBenny]

i cant disagree at all

[@dankexposed305]

2023 was ass, the push for female and rage rappers didn't work out like the industry would've liked

[@Nic-without-a-k]

@@dankexposed305 Yeah, this year had many great projects, singles, and moments. Hope 2025 can be just as good.

[@BossmanDlow12]

@@Nic-without-a-kWell all the big rappers like Kendrick, Kanye, JID, Cole, Travis Scott, Uzi, and Rocky (I hope) are all dropping this year.

[@Nic-without-a-k]

@@BossmanDlow12 I’m very excited for those albums.

[@matheusherique3389]

Doechii man, she's her...

[@sheryll1536]

She is

[@goodfella1401]

Did you actually say Family Matters was one of the greatest diss tracks of all time? Quitter by Eminem or Mr Me Too by The Clipse are better diss tracks and they're not even well known diss tracks in mainstream hip hop. Family Matters was a decent diss track at best. The fact that people still remember so many lines from Euphoria, 6:16 in LA, Meet The Grahams and Not Like Us says everything about how sub par Family Matters was as a diss track because most people maybe remember 2-3 lines at best from that entire song. It's usually the intro and that Kendrick/Grammy line. Then he still thought he could beat Kendrick, a MC who shook the entire hip hop world with his Control verse over a decade ago and since the start of his career has told us many times he will destroy your favorite rapper if he has to. So no Drake would've NEVER EVER EVER beaten a Pullitzer price winner and one the best and most respected lyricists like Kendrick Lamar when Drake couldn't even beat Pusha T in a rap battle or had any response for The Story of Adidon besides his album Scorpion which UMG really pushed down people's throats on Spotify for months.

[@KingBenny]

I put family matters in the top 20 disses of all time. But when it comes to diss tracks, because their purpose is heavy on the outcome and popular opinion I do take into account other's opinions which def gives it a boost

[@checksoverstripes2498]

Bro you sound like such a Kendrick glazer lmao how does his hog taste? Try not being biased and recognize music for what it is. Family Matters was great and legendary.

[@samirasoto96]

@@KingBenny If it's based on outcome and popular opinion, Family Matters would DEFINITELY not qualify as one of the greatest OAT. The song peaked at #7 and fell off the charts while Not Like Us, Like That, and Euphoria were all still in the Top 40 weeks after the beef. The streams are weak. Even Euphoria has more than double its streams (317mil vs. 129mil). Some people say it's the best song from the beef, but clearly that isn't the case because not even his fans are listening to it. They're just trying to throw Drake a bone. FM was good, but nowhere near the greatest, even within the beef

[@creative_username1484]

"I think this song (Meet The Grahams) is probably the worst-aged of all the songs from the beef" My guy, Drake pulled some allegations out of his *ass* in Family Matters. As Kendrick was saying, some people from OVO gave him info. At least he bothered enough to get his information from a credible source, while Drake did not Sure, that line aged terribly, but Family Matters was just Drake straight-up lying or making up serious accusations (Slight edit: Kendrick is probably not close to retiring. The whole point of Mr. Morale And The Big Steppers is Kenny saying he doesn't want people to *act as if* he's the savior of Hip-hop. He's more than open to make a difference and lead the genre in a good path, but he doesn't want to feel solely responsible for it)

[@KingBenny]

Personally, I think MTG's lie was different than FM's lies. Where FM uses the lie in a more traditional way to how diss records usually lie, my problem with MTG is how Kendrick lies. If Kendrick kept it to the "don't have a kid to have a kid to have a kid" then I'd be fine even if it were a lie because it's not a big deal, it can be looked over and it's not that deep. Kendrick very clearly wanted to expose drake with the daughter shit rather than clown on him. The only disses that he makes throughout that entire verse are disses that only hit if they were true, and since they're not it's hard to ignore. I think FM works despite the lie bc of the type of lie that it is, it's quick and drake uses them to set up Kendrick. However, when I think they stop working is when The Heart Pt. 6 drops and he's trying to expose Kendrick and doubles down on the allegations which we know aren't true. Sometimes you can lie and get away with it and sometimes you look stupid for doing so

[@blackstartoad5008]

@@KingBennya lie is a lie bro. Drake was talking about dave free smashing kendricks girl, having a child with her, kendrick being a women beater. A lot of lies in that track which should disqualify it the same way it disqualifies mtg according to your logic. Keep it fair on both sides. We don’t know about the daughter thing for sure but Kendrick’s camp have been doubling multiple times on the fact that he has a daughter, there also rumors from way back then and a woman even going to court to claim that he’s the father(he paid 15 000 in child support to that woman).

[@creative_username1484]

@@KingBenny So you'll just ignore the fact that Kendrick probably thought the daughter thing was true? It's not something he should quickly mention, it's something that SHOULD have been made a big deal through Meet The Grahams A mole from OVO probably told him that Drake has another kid, and he took it as fact. It was a mistake from Kendrick, but it was clearly not intentional defamation DRAKE, on the other hand, wanted to throw fake accusations at Kendrick with NO BACKBONE at all. That's my issue In conclusion, Kendrick accidentally lied, and Drake did it on purpose.

[@KingBenny]

​@@creative_username1484 if what you said is true... yeah the track still aged poorly

[@creative_username1484]

​@@KingBenny It's alright if you think that Meet The Grahams aged kinda poorly I'm arguing that it's not the worst-aged track from the beef. That would be Family Matters or Taylor Made Freestyle

[@Ty-rw3jk]

Jcole actively accepted that he doesn’t belong in the big 3

[@KingBenny]

Basically. But he's been saying that on a lowkey

[@aiyuk.prodzz]

go listen to port antonio

[@the.real.fan2]

2023 had so many mid albums and really only had utopia as a mainstream album. 2024 needed to save it and it delivered, and MORE.

[@KingBenny]

lowkey facts... but idk 2023 kinda slept on at times. Metro boomin aoty

[@MariamMariam-pb3io]

​@@KingBennynot really a rap album but imo post Malone dropped an amazing album

[@koolaidsalad]

@@MariamMariam-pb3io not rap in the slightest it is literally country music

[@MariamMariam-pb3io]

@@koolaidsalad I know that's why I said that it isn't rap 💀 Also I'm talking about his 2023 album AUSTIN not F1 trillion so it's not fully country

[@bernardoxavier4883]

KD3 was better than Utopia

[@andinetrbruce1213]

Meet the Grahams is not badly aged. It was not simply strategy, it was retaliation: "Don't tell no lies about me and i won't tell truths about you." Drake slandered Kendrick in FM and was thereby spanked and humiliated. By the way, no song that says "rapping like you trying to get the slaves freed" can ever count as one of the greatest diss tracks of all time. If anything it is a sign that we allowed some people to become too comfortable in our culture. Meet the Grahams is mostly accurate. If the one part about the daughter is inaccurate due to faulty intelligence collection it is only a slight error. Drake has other kids. The woman he settled the SA case with has a son that looks exactly like Drake did at that age. She also previously stated in interviews that he is the one that got her pregnant. Before any of this open beef. MTG is accurate even if the girl turns out not to be Drake's; he has kids that he hides, be sure of it. I actually wanted to comment about the subject of the bulk of your video but i couldn't look past this part.

[@KingBenny]

Tbh... though I get why ppl are mad at the slave bar considering the weird history drake has with blackness, I understood that it was a joke that was hyperbolic, however, I do think that bar has already done a lot of damage to how drake fans view political bars which I guess i should take into account ngl

[@Vanjee24]

@@KingBennythis is why folks like you don’t need to speak about our culture. You having the audacity thinking topics like “slavery” is a pun or joking matter is the reason why Kendrick had to go into a booth and make a Not Like Us. The song isn’t a diss just for Drake, it’s for all outsiders getting too comfortable speaking at our table.

[@bereaboy]

Weird to say the daughter thing was a problem but also not have a problem with the Dave free thing, which was a crazy lie.

[@KingBenny]

I think its a different type of lie. Like one is more of a throwaway lie, at least in Family Matters, ofc by the time Heart pt. 6 rolls around, i think drake fumbles that by presenting the lies as if they were legit like kendrick does on MTG. lying is ok its just that when a lie becomes a big part of a song you cant ignore it.

[@Vanjee24]

@@KingBenny”a different type of lie” Lmfaooo get this man out of here 😂😂😂😂

[@mikevilla8230]

A lie is a lie 🤡🤡🤡

[@missb6810]

@@Vanjee24He’s a damn clown.

[@bereaboy]

@@KingBenny I don't know fam. The dave free thing is a whole verse in FM just like the daughter verse. Hell, Drake even teased it on push ups with the "who kid" drop.

[@dwaynejpeterkin]

Hip hop was never dying hip hop was getting a restart and now it’s bigger than ever and bigger things will happen in 2025

[@youssefmic]

For me 2024 was my first year of mainstream rap, and what a year it was

[@KingBenny]

This your first yr listening to rap?

[@gio_a7339]

Same here think this year set my expectations a bit high

[@marleyythebishop]

Welcome

[@youssefmic]

@ kinda, this my first year into English music in general

[@KingBenny]

@youssefmic oh cool cool... well you got some catching up to do then

[@B-Chill76]

Only people who were walking around last year saying HIP-HOP was dead are people like this guy. Write this down HIP-HOP can never die. We are HIP-HOP!!!LGTT

[@KingBenny]

You can look through my channel community posts when I was posting that hip hop wasn't dying and that ppl were overreacting to an off yr

[@blackjay3771]

Dude called “Meet The Grahams” the worst diss track of the battle. I was gonna give you a sub but that statement tells me you have some homework to do. Get your hip hop knowledge up. Pusha T spoiled y’all with that “truth-telling” requirement. That’s not what a diss track is about. Look at the old battles.

[@KingBenny]

Comprehension would tell you that its not about lying considering I hyped up Family Matters, it's about how you lie. There's a reason people didn't fuck with Heart Pt. 6 and it's because we could all tell that Drake was clearly lying to get the advantage. If Kendrick had used the daughter bit in either A. a more creative way that more metaphorical to expose how Drake would be unable to be a father of a daughter or B. Lie in a way that isn't presented a big gotcha, then I probably would still like MTG. I still do like MTG, but I feel as though it doesn't hold up with a lot of the tracks and it most definitely is the worst of the bunch for Kendrick

[@konLVdon]

Meet the Grahams is exactly his version of Life of Adidon

[@Vanjee24]

⁠@@KingBennyyou’re wrong again. People didn’t like The Heart Pt 6 bc a lot of people realize how dumb Drake is for not understanding Kendrick’s album Mr Morale and severely misinterpreting Mother I Sober. Maybe hip hop isn’t a lane you should be participating in…

[@missb6810]

@@Vanjee24He’s way out of his league.

[@calrellartmusic]

Yo what is this cope, NLU was a monstrous diss, you don’t have to be a glazer to see that, family matters is good (I don’t care about unproven disses this is rap) and I’m glad Drake fought back but your just delusional if you think the disses are comparable, NLU has far and beyond outperformed every diss in recent memory in every notable metric, shout out Drake from trying but yall gotta stop the cap!

[@KingBenny]

I never said FM is comparable. I think living in the moment I did though ngl... mostly bc idk what drake knew in terms of kendricks personal life and if the abuse allegations were true then that would just get me looking at kendrick all types of sideways

[@missb6810]

@@KingBennyMan shut up. You culture vultures have ruined Hip Hop.

[@Uliel_the_G]

So meet the grahams didn’t work cause of drake has no daughter but nothing on how drake lied on evert accusation on family matters?

[@KingBenny]

I expect drake to lie... I don't expect Kendrick to lie. I hold them to different standards in regards to this beef. Like drake never came off as if he was telling the truth, and it's not like as a listener as if I trusted drake to tell me the truth in the first place. Kendrick on the other hand, when he gets caught in a lie it doesn't hold

[@Cage1408]

Is there proof that Dot lied tho? We haven't got confirmation either way. Whereas with Drake's songs we've actually seen evidence to the contrary ​@@KingBenny

[@Vanjee24]

⁠​⁠@@KingBennyyou need to come up with some stronger reasons why MTG didn’t work. Drake (a person who you believe to be a liar) is the only one saying the bars about him having a daughter isn’t true lmao

[@KingBenny]

@Vanjee24 I'm calling kendrick a liar bc he should've backed it up by now, not bc drake said he was a liar.

[@Vanjee24]

@@KingBennyhow would you like for Kendrick to back it up? He already dropped Easter eggs, you want him to expose her whole identity, where she lives and what she had for breakfast too?

[@jay2thaudy]

That Eternity Graham kid is doing appearances with no popular media to her name.

[@djmacatack]

Even if Family Matters was a great track, the hype around it fizzled quickly because Meet The Grahams dropped within an hour after. The timing was so important down to the minute (at least on Kendrick's side)

[@KingBenny]

Which is exactly what I said in the video

[@alonzosmith1544]

Family matters aged like cottage cheese… a watered down version of euphoria

[@KingBenny]

nah... im relistening to it rn and it holds up pretty well. Like the worst part ig is him saying that Dave Free is Kendrick's son's dad, and the big D line

[@alonzosmith1544]

@ nothing he said to Kendrick held weight besides “Kendrick just opened his mouth somebody go give him a Grammy right now” which sounds more like jealousy on Drakes part lol… no evidence Kendrick beats Whitney::. No evidence Dave Free was 1 of his kids dad nor that Whitney cheated with Dave… his shots at everyone else was good but we didn’t care about any of the other rappers he was going at. Family matters doesn’t clear back to back frfr

[@ayeyou5651]

​@@alonzosmith1544his excuse, that they are pushing, is the last saving grace for Drake. It won't work.

[@anniceportland]

No it aged like day old milk​@@KingBenny

[@Og_Uchime]

@@KingBenny U wrong "Kendrick just opened his mouth somebody go give him a Grammy right now” is the only thing that will age well, other than that, it's bullshit! Plus, kendrick deserves it all.

[@MsNadz808]

Where's Doechii tho??

[@KingBenny]

not the biggest doechii fan ngl... but i will get around to her music

[@koolaidsalad]

@@KingBenny so you are just being completely subjective and ignoring the facts? ight. maybe branch out and take your time before you start saying you know the things like "the year that changed hip-hop"

[@neonstix1035]

@@koolaidsaladit’s not that serious 😭 calm tf down its 1 person. She had nowhere near as much influence as a lot of other things this year

[@shaneilellis9832]

Even Nathalie nun.

[@Vanjee24]

@@neonstix1035tf are you talking about? Real hip hop heads and people of the culture have been giving Alligator Bites praise for its golden era of hip hop feels

[@Lindorproddz]

Great video dude you deserve 50k this is my first time watching a vid of yours and definitely will not be my last

[@KingBenny]

Thanks good sir. May the Knicks win their next game just bc you commented that

[@roboelectrooverlord6346]

There is no next class up … 2024 didn’t solve the biggest problem. Who is going to get as big as the SoundCloud era rappers or the blog era rappers before them ( TikTok can’t build fanbases like that)

[@kinggsnappy]

WHO'S NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

[@KingBenny]

that is true... but im hoping 2024's culture shift is enough to inspire that new gen of rappers

[@2khoopteam109]

Check out Myles Clayton

[@OfficialHavocOsiris]

I can admit that the reason why I laughed off and still laugh off the whole “hip hop is dead” thing is because I personally found stuff I liked within the space of hip hop closer to what Tyler and Denzel occupy, and that is also why I’m glad you brought up Chromakopia. I think and hope that we can expect more artists at least taking albums that seriously as we approach the end of the year.

[@stlgardener6122]

Yall do know that rap battles are full if lies and things right? U said MTGs didn't age well due to the "daughter thing", but said Family Matters is better. Family Matters was also full of lies. That's an oxymoron, wouldn't u say?

[@missb6810]

I hate these new Hip Hop fans. Rap battles are about roasting your opponent. It isn’t a sworn testimony.

[@KingBenny]

Yeah but the way I'm looking at it is more so from an effectiveness stand point MTG aged the worst bc on the da that it dropped MTG felt like a top 5 diss track all time just bc of how true it was, you take away that truth and it isn't as effective personally. Like if story of addidon wasn't true it wouldn't hit as hard.

[@KingBenny]

You can't tell me you think MTG is just as hard the day that it came out compared to now... that's all I'm saying. I'm cool with lies, but in MTG the daughter reveal was very clearly not an attempt to clown on drake rather than expose drake. Like had he said you have a daughter in the same way he said drake is a pedophile on not like us then it's fine bc it's a lie that's dunking on drake

[@stlgardener6122]

@KingBenny u know that even to this day, they claim she really exists. But the same can be said about the things Aubrey said in Family Matters. And MTGs is a bit to harsh for me to listen to. I feel sorry for the Grahams every time I heard that song. Actually I think Push Ups is better than Family Matters.

[@TMan10103]

No one ever disproved the daughter thing btw. Drakes daughter was reported to be TWO years old in 2015. How old did Kendrick says Drakes daughter was? Eleven. She would be eleven today. His claim lines up with previous daughter allegations on Drake. Clearly he didn't pull this out of thin air. He also said Drake didn't CLAIM the daughter. Meaning Drake never wanted to prove that it was his. So of course Drake was going to deny. Yet kendrick was going to win with pedo allegations anyways, he wasn't going to throw another hardcore allegation on Drake to make himself look good. Why would he lie if he knew people were going to call it a lie. He only said it because he knows something we don't. He wasn't going to taint his diss track with a false claim and he wasn't going to make himself look deceitful by writing a whole verse to an imaginary daughter. He would never go that far for a lie especially when he already had Pedo allegations and Not Like Us in the tuck. There was no reason to create a fake daughter unless it was true

[@Goated_Durk]

Push ups is one of the worst diss tracks of all time this is what glaze really is. The whole joke is over a jail workout Kendrick did on IG, it's not deep enough compared to anything Kendrick released. Also people have researched the whole Drake daughter thing, and it's definitely possible. (Especially with all the ****stars he gets with)

[@KingBenny]

Drop and gimme 50 is a double entendre referring to Kendrick having a bad contract but also... drop and gimme 50 is objectively a good diss in terms of clowning on someone. For what it was not everything needs to be deep to be good (Hit Em Up, No Vaseline, etc.)

[@Goated_Durk]

@KingBenny yeah but there wasn't necessarily anything to special about the drop and give me 50, especially since it's hard to understand to a casual listener who may not know either of those things and is like "okay, but what does this have to do with anything?" It feels too on the nose, and the joke itself isn't that impressive for me to consider it a good diss. The reason I hate it so much is that it's trying to be something it's not. It's like he wants to dig deeper into Kendrick but he can't think of anything. He saved what little material he had for Family Matters, which is still just filled with lies. I don't think there's a way Drake could've won this beef. There isn't enough on Kendrick. The wife beating stuff wasn't even something the public wasn't aware of, and is seemingly disproven. I think Cole backing out was the best move, and Drake had to learn the hard way. Honestly with a past as controversial as Drake's, I'm surprised he didn't back out after realizing Kenny had nothing on him. Just some food for though.

[@mikevilla8230]

But Kendrick didn’t lie on MTG, there’s not just a daughter there’s another boy too.

[@per_ceive]

I remember the articles about it in the ‘10s. Nobody can convince me someone with CLB album cover doesn’t have several children 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@mikevilla8230]

@@per_ceive exactly I wouldn’t doubt that there’s more than 2, Drake is a professional deadbeat and a master manipulator. When people find out about the daughter they will say Meet the Grahams aged like fine wine

[@KingBenny]

I find it highly unlikely that he didn't lie and it isn't big news that Drake has a daughter personally. Compared to when Adonis was born I highly doubt it

[@mikevilla8230]

@@KingBenny is it unlikely or is it not big news? Sounds like you’re just trying to downplay the song, first claiming he lied and now you’re saying it doesn’t matter if he lied because it’s not as big as when Adonis was exposed, a deadbeat is a deadbeat and deserves to be called out as so. Unsubbing since you like to defend deadbeats

[@StayBlessed47]

Remember Drake denied having a daughter but not the other allegations first.

[@KingBenny]

That was crazy ngl

[@josephjaleny8940]

You been a big part of my year man

[@KingBenny]

thank you for making me part of your year then :)

[@1DeepRecords]

need more videos like this !

[@JJacckieee]

What if Kdot responded to the beef to keep hip hop alive

[@fabiosequeira8844]

loved the video but not mentioning Blue Lips by Schoolboy nor Aligator bites never heal by Doechii is a crime boy

[@KingBenny]

Not the biggest Doechii fan tbh... I did mention Blue Lips, just didn't go too into it bc im not the most familiar with that record

[@aiyuk.prodzz]

@@KingBennycant be making videos on the year if the only thing u know is beef dude 😂

[@sugarhair7349]

Q had an awesome roll out

[@mania4270]

Besides the beef, what else happened to save hip hop? No new rappers have popped. The only big rap songs were "not like us". This aint got nothing on 2008-2012. That era saved hip hop when nas declared it dead in 06. It wasnt this big rap beef needed to grab attention. Rappers made better songs and that was how they grabbed attention. So no, this year didnt save hip hop. It just gave us a good rap beef.

[@KingBenny]

Doechii popped up which is pretty cool but aside from her no not rly. It's more about how 2024 restored the feeling. It feels like hip hop is rebuilding and it showed great signs of life in 2024 imo

[@mania4270]

@KingBenny yeah but I still think NEW artist and innovations are gonna be what saves hip hop. Hoping to see that. I just remember in the early 2010s, we had so many different types of new rappers like Joey badazz, Tyler, earl sweatshirt, Drake, Cole, Kendrick, etc. Once these guys are gone, then what? So hopefully we get some new stuff from new artist.

[@SweaterSwagg]

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[@michellemybell5608]

I definitely think 2024 took hip hop off life support lyricist made a return, 3rd verses came back, Kendrick had ppl listening to 6 minute songs & decoding bars..I'm excited to see what 2025 brings

[@durricane]

I agree with you on Push Ups being Drakes best song of the beef. (from a Kenny fan) Family Matters gets gassed up so much, but you can rip that thing apart line-by-line, it is terrible.

[@KingBenny]

I think family matters gets gassed up by drake fans bc it was supposed to be the big hit

[@akeme25]

Yeah Push Ups I definitely enjoyed more and it had a bunch of funny and true bars in there. Plus it was the first time in a long time I was hearing Drake rap with some dedication and inspiration

[@themoviecritic1092]

I agree bruh. The only good thing about FM is the last beat switch, but Push Ups overall was the better constructed track from Drake and his several ghost writers

[@Nic-without-a-k]

About the 2010s, Early on rap was still regional, but from around 2013-2023 Atlanta became bigger than any other city in rap. It was growing in the 2000s with crunk and trap music, and after that it dominated for ten years straight.

[@JaylonTheory]

Did Kendrick really save Hip-Hop? Or was it just a rap battle between the biggest rappers in the industry that will have no effect on Hip-Hops overall decline in charting and popularity? I guess only time will tell, but other than Drake, Kendrick, and Cole, I haven't seen many other rappers, if any since then do any significant sales to indicate Hip-Hop is coming back to it's former glory.

[@SweaterSwagg]

Bro just wanted a video for the end of the year but this is absolute facts

[@dymeaduzin]

I enjoy & appreciate your perspective bruh!

[@KingBenny]

life is all perspective

[@duckmannick]

My Goat King Benny with another banger

[@KingBenny]

Is that award winning director nick Ferrara?

[@dormiovibes]

Hip Hop will never die. At the very least, it'll become complacent until its time for the pot to be stirred again.

[@dudeilovehiphop]

i liked and been subbed for some time. Luv ur channel

[@KingBenny]

Thank you good sir

[@paulvalenzuela7994]

30 years later my legendary status as a hip hop rhyme savior

[@soul6318]

Hopefully 2025 is just as hype for Hip Hop

[@SussexFriendlyChannel256]

Meet The Grahams was the best of all of the battle songs. It did exactly what it was supposed to be. Not like us is a commercial bop, but Meet The Grahams., changed a Mood, stepped on Family Matters, and kept people up the rest of the night.

[@esmooth919]

I would definitely say that 2024 saved hip hop in a big way, because in addition to the hip hop Civil War bringing back competition, a lot of the greats came back like a fothermucker! Redman came back, LL Cool J came back, even Will Smith came back! Redman got a posse cut on his album, featuring some of the greatest rappers to ever come out of New Jersey, including Queen Latifah! And that's on top of all of the albums mentioned in this video.

[@Crassus_317]

Nice video, glad to find this video, cheers man!

[@KingBenny]

Thanks man! Glad you found this vid too

[@Ethalphicus]

Hip Hop should not be dead. The year 2024 was a reminder on why competition is entertaining and dangerous at the same time. Rap is alive and well for now. But If the big three rappers wind up dead on the news and the music we get devolves, Then we all will know that Hip Hop/Rap is truly officially dead. Let’s hope no rapper tries to (not lyrically) kill one or another…

[@lydiaapolot5460]

Do not try to start changing narratives, meet the grahams aged the worst??? Family matters best diss?? Yepp not like us,must be from outside the culture.

[@KingBenny]

You itching to dickride rn. what do I say at 12:30.

[@rodlo1804]

It’s about taste… family matters is a terrible diss song. He barely says something about Kendrick so how can it be the best diss song? He dissed Whitney

[@lilsprx]

Family Matters was a fire song tbh.. Not Like Us was just an even better song fr. Ik everyone a Drake hater these days but non of them niggas care about y’all.. Drake or Kendrick. They make good music. Can we just enjoy the moment it created where niggas can genuinely beef and not die fr??!!

[@sugarhair7349]

@@KingBennybro, you ain’t gonna get more more subs talking to your viewers like that. Especially when you’re objectively wrong.

[@nora_dunwiddie_]

this is one of the best videos i’ve seen all year.

[@KingBenny]

thanks sir

[@RetroDen12]

Amazing video man subbed!

[@KingBenny]

thanks sir

[@RetroDen12]

@@KingBennyopinions on schoolboy q’s blue lips?

[@mawilliams505]

I’m old because I never heard that Harlow song. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@KingBenny]

it happens. Not everyone can hear ever song ever made lol

[@mawilliams505]

@@KingBenny I hear you… but I’m truly old… I was born with hip hop so I really don’t come out for all the new stuff.

[@mileania7287]

Meet the graham's is in competition with Euphoria for my favorite. I don’t care if the accusation is real or not as I didn't judge FM based on that either.

[@Barkley_Prods267]

10:42 Neither did the wife beating allegations💀

[@KingBenny]

I mean true... I just think the songs use the lies differently. The wife abuse thing is just another diss on FM but MTG rly focuses in on the daughter shit and is built around it.

[@Opopodf]

Enough words to count as a comment

[@KingBenny]

enough words indeed

[@sandraroland9007]

That was NOT the good kid Maad City van. Its already been debunked by comparing the makes and model of both. 😂. Also another reason why calling FM one of the greatest diss tracks of all time is a TERRIBLE taje is how it insults a certain demographic of people 🌈 through the weekend and Kendrick's family member 😂. Please do proper research 🙏🏽.

[@KingBenny]

you kendrick fans are insufferable man... you cant let drake have anything or let a man be objective. FM is in my top 20 all time, specifically the 3rd beat is when I really think it hits its peak. Is it perfect? not rly. but most diss tracks aren't necessarily the peak of art

[@Wretched777]

I Love MTG. I also believe there is a daughter but that’s just me 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@KingBenny]

And if there is then I take my point back and add MTG to the top 5

[@DontEatDynamite]

gotta check out a couple more videos before I subscribe, but this one for sure was amazing and I hope you make it bigger man

[@KingBenny]

Thank you sir... I appreciate that too

[@NLC414z]

and nobody talked about Don Toliver's album Hardstone Psycho.

[@KingBenny]

honestly... nobody even told me about it

[@NLC414z]

@@KingBenny bro listen to it. straight fire 🗣

[@certifiedcharbergian8462]

Liked commented and subscribe dude love the video production!!

[@Hellismary]

So let me get this straight, Family Matters was fire to you despite all the obvious false claims, but you don’t like MTG cause of the daughter verse? One verse out of the entirety of the song destroying Drakes persona, but the daughter thing isn’t real so oh well, Help me to understand that. It’s a fucking rap battle not a truth telling contest

[@KingBenny]

i did not say i hate MTG... just think compared to what it was the night it dropped to now, MTG has suffered the most of any track going from like 10/10 to like a 7... every other song in the beef has stayed around the same for me. Refer to my pinned comment for any other thing

[@DOOMGHT]

Yo luv yo vids❤❤❤

[@KingBenny]

thanks man

[@DOOMGHT]

Yo welcome. And you a a lot Of fans. And just a little loving Fans. And showing that I Have hope for you to be at THE TOP Like have fun with the grind Get yo self at 50k bro pace

[@KingBenny]

@@DOOMGHT Thanks man... i hope so too, but honestly being on top isn't necessarily the reason i do this. I just like making videos

[@DOOMGHT]

@@KingBenny what makes you happy bro

[@imfromspace7753]

You did an amazing job bro🔥

[@KingBenny]

I appreciate it heavy!!!

[@ChillingWithMonie]

Not mentioning any other female rapper besides Meg (just because she got the first number one) is insane. Lol Doechii and Glorilla had amazing years.

[@batmaneo]

lol thank you soldier! keep up the good work!

[@KingBenny]

Will do! Or at least try

[@simpkinsfranklin]

Man this year was amazing and if you can rap rap it was real good for you my biggest year in real as artist to date.

[@_birdie]

5:39 You said there’s no other hiphop song that took over pop culture the way Like That did… but there was- In Da Club.

[@KingBenny]

I didn't say that there has been no hip hop song ever lol... just that there hadnt been one in a while

[@_birdie]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@KingBenny ah sorry. I rewatched it and realized I misunderstood ur phrasing. Also didn’t catch that u were referring to songs from more recent yrs. Haha 🤦🏻‍♀️ my bad, dude. But hey, cut me some slack for my idiocy… it’s been a long week! 😆

[@jacquelinerandle5152]

The wife beating allegations was dead as soon as he left Drake's mouth period

[@KingBenny]

In the moment I heard the allegations out... you never know with celebrities

[@Demon-Time88]

I know your video took you a lot of time and effort to make this, but please be accurate. The battle did not start with like that. It started with Drake and J. Cole officially called out Kendrick on their Collab track like that was a response not a start get it right please don’t want to mislead the viewers. We got enough nonsense going on.

[@KingBenny]

Cole and Drake didn't rly call out Kendrick imo.

[@lonewolf7704]

a lot of love

[@TheArtKitchin]

People hate when you ask for a subscribe or a like. If we like the video, we will like and subscribe. But asking for it really makes the bar go higher for me to like or subscribe to it. Just my opinion.

[@KingBenny]

trust... this video has 7k views and has gained me more subs than a video i did last week with 40k views and the only difference between the two is that i forgot to ask for a sub on the vid with 40k. I used to not be a believer tbh... but my analytics say otherwise

[@ikeepitrollin]

Prove he doesn't have a daughter.

[@emmanueltheorb]

Really nice vid. Shout out teezo for real

[@Porifera-Jaymen]

Gao the arsonist dropped 🔥 great vid thanks

[@ilcoglionedallaerremoscia]

good video man keep it up! :)

[@KingBenny]

thanks man! :)

[@_Overestimated]

great video, man.

[@KingBenny]

Thanks

[@richieave55]

did you just say Family Matters AND Push Ups is some of the greatest diss tracks of all time??? lmao it aint even top 5 ... hell .. it might not even be top 10! I can name 10 other diss tracks better than Family Matters AND Push Ups .. man cuh you gotta be yt smh

[@KingBenny]

i mean... i very clearly said top 20 which would make it one of the best diss tracks of all time

[@richieave55]

@@KingBenny do you know any other rap battles besides 2pac/Biggie and Jay-Z/Nas?? lol i'm genuinely curious atp

[@KingBenny]

@@richieave55 ofc... my top 10 is as follows (don't take these too serious bc I didn't put too much thought into this) 1. The Story Of Addidon 2. Takeover 3. Not Like Us 4. Ether 5. Hit Em Up 6. Euphoria 7. No Vaseline 8. T-Shirts N Buddens 9. Back 2 Back 10. Who Shot Ya? (Only cause biggie said it wasn't a diss otherwise itd be much higher) I'm sure there's things to debate here, and definitely songs I've forgotten. I judge diss tracks greatness based on the moment they created/the story behind them, mixed with how good i thought they were. Otherwise I probably wouldn't put FM in a top 20 based on JUST the bars. I do stand by push ups though

[@richieave55]

@@KingBenny that's cool .. this is an honest and respectful suggestion .. i'd say you should check out the battles between Beanie Sigel vs Jadakiss, Jadakiss vs 50 Cent, 50 Cent/G Unit vs Ja Rule/ Murda Inc, Canibus vs LL Cool J, Game Vs 50 Cent, Lil Kim vs Foxy Brown, Nelly Vs KRS-One, Dr Dre Vs Eazy-E, KRS-One Vs MC Shan, Kurupt Vs DMX, DMX Vs Ja Rule, Eminem Vs ANYONE lol just some suggestions to broaden your Hip-Hop knowledge in famous Rap Battles .. some of them might not have been "mainstream" but ALL of them were absolutely big and important in the CULTURE 💯

[@Mimilewis504]

Loved your video butttt Drake sings we’re very childish

[@Bigbean2999]

Let pray 2025 keeps it up

[@elchologonzalez1688]

the Lord asked "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? It was K-dot said, Here am I; send me. And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed." "How long, O Lord?" Till the party dies.

[@Colinmaher44]

feather made me like

[@KingBenny]

Feather is great and I always leave it in there for someone to recognize it

[@aiyuk.prodzz]

14:20 entire album flew over your head

[@KingBenny]

I can't joke ab shit? Anyways... fuck aiyuk for selling me on fantasy this yr

[@aiyuk.prodzz]

@@KingBennyniners as a whole sucked this year tbf

[@Loi_of_Earth]

Kendrick just open his mouth 😫😫

[@KingBenny]

That one tiktok ruined it man

[@cambob42069]

You should get to the Denzel album. It’s amazing

[@MadsusMythic]

Hopefully 2025 won’t end up like 2023

[@monkeystalin9221]

On god GRIPPY saved hiphop forever, and the ALDI meme is still MASSIVE

[@TaylorShet-z3u]

HE MADE A TYPO, HE MADE A TYPO HE MADE A TYPO

[@KingBenny]

Shhhh

[@brittneyrechalle6719]

I was gonna watch the video until I read the comments then was like nah 😂

[@thecosmicblueautie]

2024 was the year Megan kicked off the diss track trend, Kendrick took down emo trap Goliath, everyone wanted to be from Compton and hip hop attempted to throw out all the culture vultures and clout chasers, including Ak's ass. It was a good ass year!

[@KingBenny]

i wouldnt call drake emo tbh

[@DJ_TREY_19]

Every thing you said is straight bull Nobody wants to be from Compton and you know you still gonna watch Ak he ain’t going nowhere

[@alejaan6778]

@@DJ_TREY_19literally the entire east coast wishes they were from Compton or at least LA

[@thecosmicblueautie]

@KingBenny You sure? 🤔🤨😂

[@christian8434]

Dude being a drake stan is cringe

[@KingBenny]

What do you want me to say? It's not like I was praising the heart pt 6 or whatever. I said push-ups and family matters are objectively good disses (which they are) that's all the praise I had for drake in this video. How does that make me a stan?

[@fabiosequeira8844]

as long as sociertal problems are alive, as long as racism is alive, as long as discrimination is alive, as long as poverty is a recurent theme in minority neighborhoods, and all the other themes that have been crucial in the history of hip-hop, HIP-HOP WILL NEVER DIE.

[@KingBenny]

lowkey facts