Benny the Butcher

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We're concluding Rap Month with Buffalo MC Benny the Butcher. Alongside Conway the Machine and Westside Gunn, he's a member of the hip-hop collective Griselda. He's an incredibly prolific rapper. Benny's not even forty yet and he's got dozens of LPs, mixtapes and other releases to his name. He joins Bullseye to talk about his upbringings in Buffalo, New York and how he got into rapping. Plus he breaks down his track "10 More Commandments" – a response to a classic Biggie Smalls song.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFund.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:15.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.5	This next interview is our last one in our lab month and our guest is Benny the butcher.
0:29.7	Benny is from Buffalo, New York, alongside Conway the machine and Westside Gunn,
0:34.1	he's a member of the hip-hop collective, Reselda.
0:37.7	Benny is a hard worker, incredibly prolific.
0:40.4	He tours a tonne, he's not even 40 yet and he's got dozens of LPs and mixtapes and other
0:46.6	releases to his name.
0:47.8	In fact, since 2009, he hasn't gone a single year without releasing something.
0:54.4	All that is even more extraordinary when you consider his health.
0:57.9	Benny suffers from severe asthma, he's been to the emergency room more times than he
1:02.0	can count.
1:03.0	He's had to cancel shows and interviews.
1:05.8	It's hard to imagine being an MC with asthma.
1:09.4	It's especially hard to be an asthmatic MC with a flow as complex and fierce as Benny
1:14.7	the butchers.
1:16.2	Benny's latest album is Tana Talk 4, came out last year.
1:20.8	Here was the first single from it, Johnny P's Caddy.
1:27.9	Benny the butchers, welcome to Bullseye.
1:47.6	Yes, sir, thanks for having me.
1:50.6	It's nice to have you here.
1:51.6	I'm glad that you have some cold water there.
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