Benzino has entered the chat. After Fat Joe called out BET for gentrification after putting the Hip-Hop awards on pause, Benzino barked back, stating Joey Crack was the reason for the decline.
“Why Fat Joe said it’s gentrification, after they let his ass host the awards two years earlier?” Benzino said on Instagram Live. “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.”
In case you missed it, BET Networks and Viacom have pressed pause on the BET Hip-Hop Awards and Soul Train Awards. BET CEO Scott Mills stated the team is “actively thinking about where those award shows might best live as the media climate.” But three-time Hip-Hop Awards host Fat Joe claims the pause “is a form of gentrification.”
“Little by little over the years, quietly they’ve been firing a lot of people behind the scenes at BET and everybody who has something to say,” Joe continued. “And I know ’cause I’ve been working on the BET Hip-Hop Awards for three years. It was like the budget, not for me, but the budget just kept getting chopped and chopped and chopped.”
You can hear it all from Joe below.