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 in the video embedded below. 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.…