Punch, TDE’s long-serving president, recently reacted to a 2020 interview with Griselda artists Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, and Benny the Butcher on the Rap Radar podcast.
Westside Gunn started off saying, "All of this in one year and we not mentioned as the top group. You still gonna mention a TDE, you still gonna mention a Dreamville. Dreamville, TDE…they incredible but they didn’t do it. You see what I’m saying? That’s the Buffalo sh*t. That’s the Buffalo sh*t that I’m talking about."
Conway then added, "If we were from elsewhere, we would be acknowledged the same way. TDE is a powerhouse of ’19, but where’s ScHoolboy [Q] and Kendrick [Lamar] and Ab[-Soul] and everybody’s project?"
On Wednesday (January 4) night, TDE's Punch reacted to the video, writing, "Powerhouse of *2022." This led to Westside Gunn clarifying, "I do wanna say this on the record we just don’t like y’all n***as we actually Love y’all n***as always have I always said we just needed our respect from the 'You know who's' but it was always respect."
