Buffalo, New York emcee Benny the Butcher placing out his seventh EP stuffed with summer season anthems. Being within the recreation 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 tasks 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/growth bap hybrid talking that slick, avenue, mental drug shit whereas the soulfully dusty “The Most” talks about making it out of the hood alive & taking so much 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 online business & the one single “Summer season ‘24” offers off a symphonic growth bap flare instrumentally trying to shut the block down.

My favourite monitor right here “Kitchen Desk” hops over a easy Harry Fraud beat persevering with to debate the dope recreation & after the “Peachtree” interlude, “The Blue Constructing” brings the soul vibes again within the fold combined with hi-hats from STREETRUNNER enjoying greater than merely a distributor function. “The Warehouse 3” that includes Elcamino, Fuego Base & Rick Hyde is that this guitar-laced successor to each “Warehouse” tracks off Fuego’s debut Largest Since Camby & “Larger” luxuriously ends the EP taking y’all to a better stage.

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 totally completely different vibe than the Def Jam debut did on the very starting of 2024 telling us the largest lesson Benny’s discovered. The steadiness between growth 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 season itself.

Rating: 7/10