With their penchant for street rhymes, Griselda Records rappers Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, and Benny The Butcher are all hailed by many fans for holding down “real hip-hop.” In a recent Rap Radar interview, however, Conway and WSG pushed back against critics of the melodic trap sound dominating the genre and praised popular young rappers like Gunna, Lil Baby, Polo G, Roddy Ricch, and Trippie Redd.

“To me, that shit fly,” Conway said. “I’m fuckin with the lil homies. The Gunnas, the Lil Babys. Polo G. Roddy Ricch.”

After Westside Gunn added Trippie into the mix, Conway explained why he respects the aforementioned rappers—all of whom have charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200:

Sometimes this shit is a hustle. That’s what this music shit done became. You gotta be a sharp nigga, man, just a hustler and a go-getter. I like that attitude of ‘I’m not the most lyrically-inclined nigga, but I'ma find me a wave and a lane, fuck it.’ That’s what a lot of these young dudes is doing and I commend that."

WSG then called out Griselda fans for being close-minded. “We respect all them boys, but there’s a lot of heads that fuck with us that be like, ‘Man, we don’t fuck with them, that ain’t real hip-hop,’” he said. “How you going to say that’s not real hip-hop?”

Conway continued by breaking down how young rappers are building on the foundation laid by previous generations and pushing the genre forward.

“Allow these fools to create and spread they wings,” he said. “They have the power to take this shit even further than… the era prior [and into] the next era and the era after that. Allow them niggas to create and do what they gotta do and make this shit flyer and iller. Niggas already done built the engine. Let them niggas put some rims and some tints on that shit.”

All that being said, the Griselda gang believes their style could break into the mainstream. “The thing about it is, we about to make this shit popular too,” Westside said. “You about to see your favorite rapper trying to rap over Daringer and Alchemist beats in a minute.”

Last year, Benny appeared on Genius' series For The Record and spoke about being authentic with his coke raps.

“I got pride in what I’m rapping about because it’s real, and it’s my story,” he explained. “I don’t need my records to do what the Migos records do. I don’t need my records to do what these other nigga’s records do. I’m carving out my own path, and my own lane, so I’m comfortable with that.”

Watch the full interview above, and read all the lyrics to Griselda’s W.W.C.D. on Genius now.