Benny The Butcher is surprising fans with a brand new album, announcing it just days ahead of its release.
Taking to Instagram this week, Benny revealed that Excelsior will arrive this Friday (May 2). The title is Latin for “still higher.”
“Some of us jumped off the porch early and understood the game instantly. Some of us took a lil time,” he explained in his caption. “But some needed their hand held in every aspect and was only good at riding coattails. Then u got people like me…The Chosen Few.”
Features include the likes of Boldy James, Premo, Skylar Blatt, Styles P, Fuego Base and Sule – the latter two being signees of his Black Soprano Family imprint.
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Holding down production is Daringer, Harlem Zone, Harry Fraud, Moose Tarantino and Nyckles.
Last month, Freddie Gibbs resumed taking shots at Benny The Butcher on his new song “The Big 2.”
Gibbs, who has had beef with former collaborator Benny since 2022 which resulted in a well-documented physical altercation, aims thinly-veiled jabs at the Griselda rapper for hooking up with his ex-girlfriend.
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“I seen my ex ho with the opps, I never get into drama / They both got crackhead mommas, they got some shit in common,” he raps.
Benny was photographed hanging out with Gibbs’ former partner, porn star Destini Creams, shortly after she gave birth to the rapper’s child in 2023.
Gangsta Gibbs continues jabbing The Butcher over his health issues and 2020 shooting, spitting: “N-gga you was born an addict, pussy n-gga asthmatic / Don’t fuck with The Rabbit, the day you die, bitch, I’ma hashtag it / Nigga pissed on himself when he got shot.”
The Gary, Indiana native also appears to mock the commercial performance of Benny’s Def Jam debut Everybody Can’t Go: “My naked ass got more promo than your album / Man, this really ain’t no challenge.”
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Elsewhere on “The Big 2,” Freddie Gibbs references the so-called “Big Three” debate involving Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole.
“All this talk about these threes and who’s the biggest / I got Fours and Lords cliqued up with GDs like a coalition / Never cared about no rapper status, I stayed in position / But these bars will leave some scars across your heart, boy, I’m something different,” he brags.
Perhaps Excelsior will include a response!
