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.
“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.”
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.
“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.”
So you’re gonna sound like the rest of the industry with trap beats and same rhyme flows, great idea. I mean that’s the definition of a “sell out” no?
And no, my top 5 rappers never ever compromised or went against the grain to remove the boom bap sound.
Well, no chance of a tana talk 5 sound with Unc Al missing
Its not gonna be trap beats, its gonna sound like an eminem/lupe/kendrick type album
The joint gonna be produced by Hit Boy so it wont sound like nothing else in the industry. U just a hater 💁
So junk. Lupe’s stuff sounds whack. Eminem has not had any great beats since MMLP, and Kendrick is overrated. Benny actually had some great stuff before all the high hats and snares, high rpm and claps came along. Hit-Boy is good with Nas but his last solo effort sounds like everything else out there. I guess I’m just a grumpy old man but todays hip hop is utter trash.
I’m all for it, especially if Hit-Boy is on deck. Admittedly, the last album Benny did with Hit (BURDEN OF PROOF), was cool, but far from his best work. I think there’s potential here though.
THAT MASE SHIT AIN’T GONNA WORK AND THAT WOKE SHIT ONLY WORK FOR NAS👏👏👏👏
I PROMISE THAT BENNY THE BUTCHER AIN’T GONNA GAI. NO FANS BY SWITCHING HIS SOUND… PEOPLE LIKE WHO THEY LIKE AND HIPHOP IS OVER… BENNY GONNA LOSE FANS… THIS GONNA BE HARD TO WATCH BUT I GOT MY POPCORN READY🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙆🏿♂️🙆🏿♂️🙆🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
Better get one of these keeper beats,they are legendary,if you like premiere,or jada,or mob deep type beats
Better get one of these keeper beats,they are legendary,if you like premiere,or jada,or mob deep type beats
Big mistake, boom bap is his lane. The lane ain’t crowded because Griselda dies it the best! This album think about less features, it kinda pointless to go watch him perform live and he can only do one verse of songs he has features on.
Benny is signed to a Major, its only right he makes an attempt for the main stream. If he takes a Jadakiss approach he’ll be aright. Plus. Artist grow over time, and want to do different styles of music, as long as what He delivers is bangin’ He’s good money.
hit and al together. al makes him the best beats.
hit and al together. al makes him the best beats.