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Benny the Butcher Is Still Sick of Rap Critics
“It’s been cool to shit on rappers lately. I think people need to dial back on that.”
Here he uses three different beats to narrate three different tales — of a former kingpin who blackmails his correctional officer, of a woman who sleeps with two brothers and ends up murdered, and of a rapper who seeks revenge. Benny the Butcher began his career with a series of gloomy mixtapes in the late 2000s before breaking through as one-third of the rap collective Griselda alongside his cousins Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine. The trio’s corner-dwelling rhymes and fine-art aesthetics turned them into stars, with Benny establishing his own lane through no-frills narratives about the minutiae of drug dealing and incarceration.
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