Westside Gunn Shuts Down Claim That Jay-Z Advice Caused Griselda Drama

Westside Gunn is pushing back on rumors that advice from Jay-Z led to a rift within Griselda. The speculation began after broadcaster Jamil “Mal” Clay claimed on a recent episode of the New Rory & Mal podcast that Jay-Z had advised Gunn to give Conway The Machine and Benny The Butcher equity in Griselda Records. “Something that I knew for a while, but I just never spoke about it publicly … one of the main reasons why there was kind of like, I guess, a split between Griselda was because Westside Gunn didn’t want to give Benny and Conway five percent of Griselda — let them split 10 percent, which is something Jay-Z had kind of suggested in a meeting with them. Gunn said, ‘no.’ He didn’t wanna do that.” Mal said He continued, “Which to me was shocking when I first heard about it. Now don’t get it twisted, Gunn definitely curated the whole Griselda thing. He got it lit, he got it poppin’, but Griselda is not Griselda without the three of them.”

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