Five years after the eponymous mixtape, Benny the Butcher bears the name of the Black Soprano Family, group, album and label. This is the debut album for the trio formed by Benny himself, Heem aka Heemer from Steemer & Rick Hyde, released by rapper Griselda's label. There is a solo cut each and two with all components. Production is handled by DJ Shay (RIP), Young World, Chup the Producer and Don Cannon, while rapping is provided by the group, and Black Soprano Family affiliated rappers Jonesy and Loveboat Luciano, while Dwayne Collins is the only external guest on the project.
Chup the Producer creates the initial rhythm: jazzy boom bap, simple drum, Benny solo. Here, Cookin Soul has created a masterpiece with his remix, I highly recommend listening to it to better appreciate Benny's performance, fantastic joint and, for detachment, the best of the tape. There follows a good somber jazzy beat made by DJ Shay and the producer of the Young World group: regular drum, pop chorus by Dwayne Collins, honest deliveries by Rick Hyde, Loveboat Luciano and Benny.
"Da Mob" is the first single of the tape, boom bap jazzy produced by DJ Shay, good delivery of Benny, the other two rappers slightly inferior. Heem & Jonesi run over a good bouncy beat by DJ Shay, with a tight sample in the background, but fail to give a tone to the track. A solo by Rick Hyde follows, he delivers with a good style and hasty, on a jazzy boom bap with simple drum and dark and eclectic piano samples, soundscape created by Chup. Rick Hyde and Heem show up on the sixth pick, there's an ideal jazzy rhythm a little rock and a frantic eccentric piano, the two are fine, but the sung-spoken hook sounds bad and lowers the quality of the track.
"Valerie" features a rhythm that has a somber mood for Heem's solo choice, but the guy doesn't take advantage of this production, effortless and easy delivery, he engages more on the hook than on the verses. Closes a posse of the trio, on a good jazzy soundscape provided by Don Cannon, with chipmunk soul samples looped in the background: Heem opens, here hardcore and better than usual, but I still don't feel it up to Rick Hyde, who kills the cut with an excellent verse, smoothness flow, dope; Benny closes the tape with another excellent verse.
26-minute album, 8 tracks, is a project presented by Benny the Butcher & DJ Drama, also released under the title The Respected Sopranos, released by the Italian label Tuff Kong. The lyricism is simple gangsta / mafioso, and the production is boom bap jazzy East Coast: it's easy to predict that the best moments coincide with the presence of Benny on the mic, nevertheless Rick Hyde doesn't look bad. His solo performance is quite good and his bars are of a discreet level: in the last tune, which is also the second single, you can notice, perhaps even more than the other tracks, the cadence of his delivery which is similar to that of Benny. Good record, recommended to Griselda heads.
Highlights: "Quarantine", "It's Over".
Rating: 7/10.
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