Buffalo, New York emcee Benny the Butcher placing out his seventh EP stuffed with summer time anthems. Being within the sport for two many years already, it wouldn’t be till 2016 the place he alongside his cousins Westside Gunn & Conway the Machine would take the tradition by storm off initiatives like Tana Speak 3 & The Plugs I Met. Harry Fraud got here in for a sequel to the latter following the mature Burden of Proof & lastly, Tana Speak 4 took it again to the basement a pair years again. Coming off having Hit-Boy produce half of it & leaving the opposite half to The Alchemist produce his Def Jam Recordings debut & my album of the yr thus far All people Can’t Go, we’re now being handled to Summertime Butch.
“1 Verse Butch” begins us off with the Butcher over a piano/increase bap hybrid talking that slick, road, mental drug shit whereas the soulfully dusty “The Most” talks about making it out of the hood alive & taking loads for him for that to even occur. After the “Sundress & Sandle Season” interlude, “Knightfall” retains the kicks & snares in tact advising to not let any static cease your enterprise & the one single “Summer time ‘24” provides off a symphonic increase bap flare instrumentally seeking to shut the block down.
My favourite observe right here “Kitchen Desk” hops over a easy Harry Fraud beat persevering with to debate the dope sport & after the “Peachtree” interlude, “The Blue Constructing” brings the soul vibes again within the fold combined with hi-hats from STREETRUNNER taking part in greater than merely a distributor position. “The Warehouse 3” that includes Elcamino, Fuego Base & Rick Hyde is that this guitar-laced successor to each “Warehouse” tracks off Fuego’s debut Greatest Since Camby & “Increased” luxuriously ends the EP taking y’all to a higher degree.
All people Can’t Go nonetheless stays my album of the yr thus far 8 months later & but, Summertime Butch nonetheless stands out by itself going for a very totally different vibe than the Def Jam debut did on the very starting of 2024 telling us the most important lesson Benny’s discovered. The steadiness between increase bap & entice stays prevalent, he’s merely giving us 24 minutes & 8 songs so that you can get pleasure from with solely little time left of summer time itself.
Rating: 7/10