Here's Why Stitches Is Thankful for His Beef With the Game

"My record sales going up. My views going up."

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Stitches and The Game's months-long feud boiled over earlier this month when the Compton rapper's manager Wack 100 was filmed knocking Stitches out with a single punch outside of a club in South Beach. After that initial incident Stitches was reportedly jumped by members of his own crew at Game's behest and—unfortunately for the Miami artist—that was caught on film too. Since then Game has doubled down and continued to clown Stitches in concert and on social media, but it sounds like the up-and-comer has found a silver lining: that sweet publicity. 

In an interview with TMZ released earlier today Stitches breaks down the origins of the beef and details the upshot of taking some public L's. "At the end of the day I don't like that motherfucker...but I could thank him too," Stitches says. "He's helped me a little bit. My record sales going up, my views going up. So at the end of the day there's a lot of negative shit but there's a lot of positive to it too." When asked if he'd get "knocked out" again for a surge in popularity, Stitches responded with a laugh, "Hell yeah!" 

Still, Stitches didn't back down and shared a vague threat at the end of the interview. "I think when people saw that I got knocked out or whatever, they thought it was like a little green pass to go," he said. "But it ain't. This ain't Monopoly. This ain't a pass to come and keep fucking with me. You do it again and there's gonna be consequences for you."

Watch the interview above and original knockout punch here.

 

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