Benny The Butcher will be dropping a new album with Hit-Boy later this summer, but he’s letting fans know ahead of time – expect to hear a whole new sound.
The Buffalo native took to Twitter to let his followers know how he’ll be coming this round on Saturday (May 20). Instead of a whole album full of hard-hitting boom bap beats like he came to fame on, he’ll be switching up the sound on some of his songs – as he feels the lane has become too crowded.
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“NO…my album won’t be loaded up with boom bap beats…I did that already,” he wrote. “the sound watered down too much y’all can have that shit. I’m talkin all this shit but the beats that are boom bap are OD boom bap. I did everything on this album. Any rapper who we’ve every considered top 5 did both.”
When a fan encouraged him by noting it’s “good news” and that if people “want the old Benny, just listen to his old shit,” Benny agreed.
“Right…they gon say it sound the same anyway…switch it up to hey cry too so fuck em…EVERYBODY CANT GO.”
NO…my album won’t be loaded up with boom bap beats…I did that already…the sound watered down too much y’all can have that shit
— BENNY THE BUTCHER (@BennyBsf) May 20, 2023
I’m talkin all this shit but the beats that are boom bap are OD boom bap 😅 I did everything on this album
— BENNY THE BUTCHER (@BennyBsf) May 20, 2023
Any rapper who we’ve every considered top 5 did both
— BENNY THE BUTCHER (@BennyBsf) May 20, 2023
Right…they gon say it sound the same anyway…switch it up to hey cry too so fuck em…EVERYBODY CANT GO https://t.co/2JRRx60abX
— BENNY THE BUTCHER (@BennyBsf) May 20, 2023
Everybody Can’t Go is set to arrive on August 11, and will serve as the Griselda rapper’s Def Jam debut.
Benny and Hit previously teamed up for their Burden of Proof joint effort in 2020 and have been teasing more heat in the stash in recent months.
The album was the first collaboration between the two and features Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Dom Kennedy, Queen Naija, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine and Freddie Gibbs. It debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 with about 19,000 equivalent album units sold in its first week.
The Buffalo native signed to Def Jam in late 2021 with help from Snoop Dogg, who pushed for him to join the legendary label.
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“I’m on Def Jam Records right,” Snoop said of the signing in 2021. “I’m a creative consultant executive, and just to let you know that it don’t exist no more, I’m going to announce on your show that I just signed Benny The Butcher, and he is one of the hardest rappers up out of Buffalo, New York.
He continued: “So that’s showing that there are no more lines to be crossed. We are doing what we’re supposed to be doing. The butcher’s coming.”
