Benzino known as out Fat Joe for blaming BET’s Hip-Hop Awards decline on “gentrification” whereas ignoring how dangerous the scores had been when he hosted.

Benzino is coming for Fat Joe after the Bronx rapper blamed “gentrification” for BET canceling the Hip-Hop and Soul Train Awards—whereas conveniently ignoring his personal position within the award present’s scores nosedive.

Benzino didn’t maintain again when he known as out Joe for speaking slick about BET’s strikes, particularly after internet hosting the BET Hip-Hop Awards in 2022.

According to Zino, Fat Joe’s time as host didn’t precisely assist the model—if something, it dragged it down.

“Why Fat Joe said it’s gentrification, after they let his ass host the awards two years earlier?” he mentioned. “And the ratings were the worst ever after he hosted it. Was it gentrification when you was hosting it, Joey? Stop, man. Joe, you’re putting out too much misinformation on the internet, bro. You gotta do better, man.”

Benzino was digging into Fat Joe’s recent claim that BET’s issues are tied to its shift away from Black ownership and culture, calling the cancellation of the exhibits “a form of gentrification.”

He additionally mentioned the community’s been slashing budgets and quietly firing employees.

“Little by little over the years, quietly, they’ve been firing a lot of people behind the scenes in BET and everybody who has something to say, they’ve been firing them,” Joe mentioned. “The budget, not for me, but the budget just kept getting chopped and chopped and chopped.”

According to U.S. TV information, the BET Hip-Hop Awards have seen a gentle drop in viewership over the past three years.

In 2022, the present pulled in round 708,000 viewers. By 2023, that quantity slipped to 657,000. In 2024, simply 333,000 individuals tuned in—lower than half of what they’d two years in the past.

Benzino kept going at Fat Joe and made it crystal clear he thinks Fat Joe helped tank the present’s credibility and viewership.

“This was the Hip-Hop one of the worst award show ratings ever… it wasn’t gentrification when you was hosting it, right?” Benzino continued. “You gotta do better, bro. BET didn’t know how to put on the awards. Only the Source Hip-Hop Awards did it right for hip-hop. But when Fat Joe comes up here and says oh, it’s gentrification… Man, get the f### out of here.”

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