Freddie Gibbs has seemingly thrown shots at Jim Jones and Benny the Butcher on his and The Alchemist‘s new album, Alfredo 2.
The sequel to the pair’s 2020 album of the same name, which was recently ranked by Complex as one of the best rap albums from the pandemic era, features a variety of lyrical highlights, but a few in particular have piqued the interest of fans.
On “Empanadas,” Gibbs appears to revisit past well-documented issues with both Jim Jones and Benny the Butcher. Keep reading for a full breakdown.
Is Freddie Gibbs dissing Jim Jones and Benny the Butcher on his new “Empanadas” track?
On the track, Gibbs mentions incidents in Miami and Buffalo, two locations that should be familiar to Gangsta Gibbs fans. Back in late 2021, a claim surfaced that a “fight” had broken out between Gibbs and Jones’ respective crews at a restaurant in Miami.
As for Buffalo, footage surfaced in 2022 that appeared to show an alleged altercation between Gibbs and a group of people, though it wasn’t immediately confirmed at the time whether Benny was directly involved.
“Empanadas” hears Gibbs appears to reference both incidents, spitting:
“Smacked him in Miami, his boys jumped me, he played it safe/Bitches in Buffalo get the same thing, they was throwin’ plates/Limped away on his good foot, but he ain’t bust a grape/These n***as fake/Sealed documents, still poppin’ it/Fuck the certified crack babies, come get your mama hit/Shit ain’t sellin’, they gotta resort to drama shit/ Fuck these Love & Hip-Hop n***as, I’m at the Oscars, bitch.”
What happened between Freddie Gibbs and Jim Jones?
Fans had a lot of fun reacting to initial reports of Freddie and Jim’s alleged incident, leading to a slew of remarks from both sides, not to mention brief speculation that a then-impending album from Capo might share a name with the Miami restaurant where it all went down.
“I did not put my hands on nobody in Miami, at all,” Jones later said in a 2023 episode of the FlipDaScript podcast, adding that he “never did anything to this man.”
Gibbs also downplayed Miami talk, telling The Breakfast Club in 2022 that the moment amounted to mere “furniture moving” or “a food fight.” Per Gibbs, the incident was “nothing that people can’t move past.”
What happened between Freddie Gibbs and Benny the Butcher?
In May 2022, footage made the rounds of an apparent altercation in Buffalo, with many on social media linking it to Gibbs and Benny. Expectedly, the two artists, who actually collaborated back in 2020 on the first Alfredo album, then found themselves in beef territory.
Later that year, Gibbs briefly addressed what may or may not have happened in Buffalo while fielding questions about Jim and Benny both.
“Either time could have been bad,” he told The Breakfast Club. “Everybody likes naming these rappers and stuff like that but ain’t no rapper ever hit me. Ain’t none of them ever did nothing.”
Fast forward to 2024, and Benny let it be known that he was not interested in burying the hatchet.
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