Tom MacDonald's collaborative rap track with Ben Shapiro, "Facts," has reached the top of Billboard's digital rap song sales.
"Facts" reached the chart's number two spot last week, though as of Tuesday has surpassed other chart-topping artists including Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow, Paul Russell, and Doja Cat.
Billboard noted the track's success in a late-January article, and even suggested the track could reach the top of the outlet's digital song sales chart.
"I may have quit the game, but the game won't quit me," Shapiro wrote Tuesday.
MacDonald discussed the song and efforts to suppress the track's success during an appearance on The Ben Shapiro Show.
“In our song, in the pre-chorus, we talked about not promoting guns, not promoting drugs, we talked about not turning people’s sons into thugs and their daughters into hoes,” MacDonald said. “We sort of spoke out against what the status quo in hip-hop is, and for some reason we’re treated — we’re living in some sort of upside-down, backwards freak show — and it just seems like the most destructive material [is promoted].”
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MacDonald noted hip-hop contained prominent themes of violence, along with the "romanticizing of mental health and prescription drugs."
"It seems like those things tend to get the most mainstream attention and then anything that speaks out against that, especially in our case, has been suppressed,” he continued.
The Daily Wire host noted the "most offensive" lines from "Facts" were questioning where American flags went in American culture and insisting there are only two sexes.
"They do not want Ben at the top of the Billboard charts," MacDonald added.
Shapiro joked about his performance in a series of posts following the track's release.
“I just want to thank God, Tom MacDonald, and my parents, who paid for 15 years of classical violin lessons so I could become the #1 rapper in America,” Shapiro wrote in an X post.
“Shabbat shalom, from my hip-hop household to yours,” Shapiro continued in another post.
The track was Shapiro's debut rap performance, though The Daily Wire host announced his retirement shortly after the release of "Facts."
"Rap Hannukah is over," Shapiro wrote. "It was an inspiring moment. A musical supernova. But now the time has come for me to walk away from my art. And so today, I announce that I am retiring from rap to spend more time with my family."
"It's been real, dawgs," he added.
