EP that Benny the Butcher recorded in a single day in Los Angeles, in April 2019, entirely produced by Chop La Rok & Rare Scrilla, of the Guns-n-Butter group. The tape consists of seven tracks for about twenty minutes. Elcamino, Conway the Machine and Rick Hyde are the guests, with two appearances each.
"Flood the Block" boasts a rockin' rhythm, good lively energetic drum, with piano supporting Benny's hardcore bars, good flow, single verse, then outro with scratches. If there isn't an AZ excerpt in your scratches, it's not an East Coast album. Splendid samples from "אלה סינדרלה" by Israeli musician Svika Pick.
A piece follows in which the piano remains an essential part of the musical carpet, along with rusty guitar turns and a heavy midtempo drum machine, a verse each by Benny & Elcamino. The title track boasts plucked guitar strings, a lively young piano in the background, sturdy hard drum, focused and elegant delivery by Benny. Rick Hyde's hook, Conway's clean crisp hardcore delivery.
Track number five boasts a dark and somewhat tense soundscape: harmonious strings, dirty drum, whiny soul sample, good flow by Elcamino, Benny hardcore, he slices the beat, good closing by Rick Hyde, one of the best in BSF. "The Iron Curtain" boasts layered samples from Danyel Gérard's "The Gun" and Russian band Autograph's "Requiem (In Memory of John Lennon)". Very sick organ, very heavy hard dirty dry midtempo drum, hardcore rap by The Butcher that kills the beat. The last song is "Fly With Me": sample from Greg Perry's "Come Fly With Me", boom bap close to perfection, too perhaps too hard, thin, heavy, wailing soul sample, hardcore rap by Benny & Conway.
It's a good tape, nothing to say. The Buffalo rapper comes from a time when he's stealthily approaching the mainstream and this release is closer to the underground. It's experimental, the rhythms are far from the typical Griselda production, and the MC's execution is still excellent. Recommended, if you want to hear Benny the Butcher delivering on a different type of boom bap than usual.
Rating: 7/10.
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