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Benny The Butcher On Navigating The Rap Industry Versus The Streets and ‘The Plugs I Met 2’
Apr 2, 2021
Benny The Butcher just dropped ‘The Plugs I Met 2’ with Harry Fraud. He called in to Sway In The Morning to talk about the project, the streets and navigating the rap industry.
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[Music]
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ladies and gentlemen
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one of my favorite mc's of the era
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that's one of the most consistent in the
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game
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truth spitter he tells you the cause in
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the
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effect the action and the consequence
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it ain't pure glorification of the way
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you can self-destruct
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it's actually the structural manual on a
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way that you can build and construct
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the one and only benny to butcher his
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back ladies and gentlemen
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the butcher's coming what you know
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how you been brother how you been man
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i've been good working man working
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trying to uh
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stay hungry and put my thing together
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you know what i'm saying
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stay bubbling you know how this thing go
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how y'all
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and blessed that you're here to join us
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today we appreciate you
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hey what part of the country are you in
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right now
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i'm in atlanta i'm in atlanta okay all
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right good okay cool you
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all right um covered in atlanta
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what the hell you delusional right
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uh well we miss you man we trying to get
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outside so i definitely want to
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when you know when you when you come
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back to the east let's hang out but man
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you go from a lot of different places so
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you're hardly on the east coast now did
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you do you mostly stay in atlanta
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yeah i mostly stay in atlanta but uh
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i'll be back up up
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back and forth a lot and i'm saying
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getting work done you gotta you gotta
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come to the city just so many
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things to do there but i'll be in a
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couple weeks man i'm gonna make sure i
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tap that
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okay for real i was just okay i'm sorry
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not go for it go for it
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no bendy i was just telling sway this is
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heather what's up i was just telling
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sway like
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i'm so happy for you man like i've been
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seeing you because we've been working
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from home
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and i've been seeing you just pop up in
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so many different
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places that people wouldn't expect you
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to be in and i and i'm proud that you
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just decided
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not to keep yourself in a box but you
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have authentically
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just have found your space in so many
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different arenas like i literally
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just was watching you last week on jalen
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and jacoby
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talk sports and you was doing your thing
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you have a future
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in commentating and sports commentating
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if you ever decided to go that route
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i'm hoping that you decide to go into
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film whether it's executive producing
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projects or decide to appear on the
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screen
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and do television like i just think the
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world is so open for you right now and
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all your talents that you have i'm happy
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to see you brother in all these
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different
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places and i'm just proud for you just
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know you got a sister in jersey rooting
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for you
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every time you pop up in one of these
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unexpected places
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oh man that's dope man that's dope one
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thing i can't say is that the game been
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good to me it's been receptive to me you
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know i'm saying it
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and it's all about my personality and my
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character i tell these artists that
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you can't even no matter how talented
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you is you can't be a talented [ __ ]
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you know what i'm saying
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because you're still dealing with people
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at the same time so i'm just i'm just
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thankful for the people around me and
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just
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i mean people like people like y'all
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with platforms like y'all who share them
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with me you know what i'm saying who
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always show that love
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you know what i was thinking about benny
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as we celebrate your growth which is so
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freaking dope to see in all honesty
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especially thinking about how many times
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you've been on sway in the morning and
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the trajectory is just magical
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and it takes me back i was speaking
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about this with um my boyfriend carl one
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of our favorite songs from yours
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97 hove taking it back to 2018
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and that line of i'm trying to change
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but in my head it sounds telling me i
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can be
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el chapo instead of kevin laus so
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now that your star has risen
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have you answered that question is there
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still an el chapo or do you feel like
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you're more kevin lowe's
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i'm i'm i'm after after signing my own
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label deal with e1 and starting my pages
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and starring in the movie and executive
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producing it i'm
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definitely more kevin than el chapo
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that's what's up el chapo still
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visit you in a sense i still have dreams
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yo bendy's stupid then he's hey but when
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you listen when you listen to this
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project though
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the plugs i met too uh from the first
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song when tony met sosa
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and even the artwork consistent with the
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plugs i met
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one um i could tell that it's something
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about that life that
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that let's just for the lack of better
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words chapel life that just
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it's all up in your dna but when you
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listen to these songs though
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the one thing i appreciate about you is
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is
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the cause and effect you know the action
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and the consequence and you you talk
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about all of that you just don't glorify
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how ill you was in those streets but you
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do
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talk about that a lot but you talk about
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what happens and how how to get out you
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got a song called survivors remorse
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and you know that terminology in itself
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i think a lot of us who have come from
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certain places me growing up in oakland
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and
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finding a lane that was unique to me and
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then helped me
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elevate and get out of that environment
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that i was in and
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man telling myself man i got to stay out
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of the town for a while so i could go
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get mine and then you come home
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you see your homies in that same
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environment still moving that same way
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still doing those same things
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that you know is self-destructive you
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know
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um do you ever feel that way about you
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know when you go home when you go back
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to buffalo do you feel survivors remorse
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like damn i made it but my people still
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ain't what i think they can be they're
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not reaching their fullest potential
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and man that's that's that's 100 of what
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it is
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it's just that you know what i'm saying
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like you said you come do your thing and
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you and you do great things in the world
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and you come back and everybody is
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almost
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stagnant you know what i'm saying
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because you know they they it's it's
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it's hard to do what we do
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has it i'm saying it's hard to do what
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we do and
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and and change our lives y'all know
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because y'all still got family members
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just like i still got family members and
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friends who
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live live in a certain type of lives man
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and that and that do something to me you
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know i'm saying i'm talking about like
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like close family and and it's not and
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sometimes we we almost
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take it as it's our fault because maybe
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we got the power to change their life
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but y'all know just as well as i know
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that's where them people want to be they
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want to be exactly where they at in an
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environment that they feel comfortable
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with
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before what i'm saying and because the
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the life that we live in this
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entertainment industry is not for
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everybody you know i'm saying
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it's not for everybody so they right
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where they want to be in our actuality
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but it's just like damn we could be
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better than this we could be doing this
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you don't have to do that we did that
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when we had to do it but we don't have
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to do that no more so
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it's crazy what do you do though like
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that so i'm just speaking personally too
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like when you you say
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folks still where they want to be and
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you trying to show them by example you
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don't have to be here because y'all know
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how hard benny benny went
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you know you see where i'm at right now
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you don't have to be here
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at what point though do do you cut the
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tie
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do you let it go let them go and see if
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they find their way back to you or do
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you just keep hanging in there because
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you got that survivor's remorse
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uh for some people so for some people i
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hang in there with them you know i'm
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saying
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i let my boys knows like i don't uh
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help people pay for uh salons i don't
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help i don't help people like get
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billboards for their business in the
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city
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i don't help people i don't gave people
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like
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my my main distributor you know what i'm
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saying i don't gave dudes rappers who
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don't got no followers who just got a
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couple tapes out i don't plug them in
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with like record execs
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you know that's my way of doing it you
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for what i'm saying it's just like it's
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getting providing them away but some
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people
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you know i just see him when i see him
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man you know what i mean if i got a show
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with something come through you could
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come through the show but i'll just see
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you when i see you because it's
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from dudes you can't even bring around
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all the time because they just so stuck
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in that
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in that life you know i'm saying it you
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know that's what they want that's that's
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what gives them fulfillment and we can't
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do nothing about that
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relax i heard that benny the butcher
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y'all come on man the plugs i met too
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because you didn't know this
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neighborhood was super dangerous
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a wreckage get you lit but a robbery
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will make you super
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famous ain't that something yes
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that's right that's the mentality that
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folks live by
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you know and um that that's a quote from
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a song called
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live by it with benny the butcher hey
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listen man you got a song too
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with chinks man resting power the chinks
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call overall you sound really good on
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that man how did you get that how did
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that happen
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uh man uh rest in peace dj shay man uh
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late dj shade was
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having a conversation with harry frog
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before i even arrived to the studio was
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telling him how
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uh chinks and french came to the studio
8:57
and chase laid a verse and he was like
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damn he never knew that you know i'm
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saying it and i was kind of like
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that kind of like made him feel some
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type of way like man you know both of
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these artists i work with and i'm fond
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of they worked with each other before so
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he wanted to make it full
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circle he had other change versus laying
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around he asked me what i think about it
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i'm like man hell yeah put that on there
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that's [ __ ] and it was it was dope to
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be able to to get his voice back
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out there with me because if chase was
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still here and he would have seen me
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grind up
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my way up to the game and knowing where
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i came from he would have been like like
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because i was on i was like had an open
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case on my way to jail when i did that
9:31
song
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with him so he would have been like yo
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you did your thing i probably would have
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made him proud and we'd have been
9:35
working together so
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it's built that we got to make that
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happen man shout out to chinks and his
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family
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absolutely man i'ma play um you see i'ma
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play this song survivors remorse
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uh featuring rick hyde and then up the
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phone lines man you got a lot of people
9:48
that want to talk with you bro
9:50
benny the butcher is here the butcher's
9:52
coming
9:53
let's do it
9:57
come on man the butcher's coming
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come on man let's take a moment to pause
10:06
for all that greatness coming out this
10:08
man's vocals
10:09
[Applause]
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killing it the butcher coming
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get ready man
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love it man we got a lot of people
10:21
online from you
10:22
you know um they they're here to talk to
10:26
you man let me just go through it man
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guys try to give me quick questions so
10:30
we can get as many people as possible
10:32
all right uh let's start with ryan and
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tampa ryan grand rises how you doing
10:37
right
10:37
what's good hey ryan hey grand rises
10:40
guys great to talk to you
10:41
uh you know second time caller so i'm
10:42
glad to be here my man
10:44
of course of course talking to benny too
10:46
this is incredible
10:48
okay absolutely oh yeah for sure my
10:51
biggest question is you know so like you
10:52
guys said you got the song 97 hove
10:54
you got that quote that says i came to
10:55
smoke everything just like oh seven
10:57
wayne
10:57
so i'm curious to see who some of your
10:59
biggest inspirations are what it's like
11:00
for you to put some bars together like
11:01
if you write stuff down in the studio
11:03
you kind of freestyle and you know come
11:04
back to it
11:06
uh man one of my biggest inspirations is
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definitely wayne
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uh jay uh fat joe
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a lot of the dudes who showed that
11:15
longevity in the game who showed that
11:16
age didn't matter
11:18
and uh like sometimes it depends on
11:19
what's my work what my workload is like
11:21
if i'm getting in the studio and i'm
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doing like three or four songs
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uh sometimes i might write the verses
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down to make it uh to make it go quicker
11:28
sometimes when i'm just
11:29
filming it i was in the studio uh a week
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and i haven't wrote nothing down all
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week i just been
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crafted in my head and going right and
11:36
knocking it out and back in my mouth so
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it depends on me
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okay that's fair hey ryan thanks for
11:42
your question you're a citizen
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what were you in the studio with benny
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uh i was in the studio uh but with with
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drink
11:51
you know what i'm saying my boy taj
11:53
mahal yesterday
11:55
just knocking him knocking out some
11:56
tracks man doing some features
11:58
okay uh shout out to [ __ ] man [ __ ] did
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our uh
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our friday uh fire freestyle so he was
12:04
one of our featured producers
12:05
oh big dog
12:11
one of the most celebrated guys in the
12:13
game in case y'all don't know about it
12:15
man that dude don't put in records and
12:17
put in work from everybody from from
12:19
jade to mr cheeks to missy to freeway i
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mean
12:22
the list to benny the butcher come on
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we got uh we we got al boogie on the
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line al boogie call yes
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i told al boogie call back today i'm
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gonna have benny on the show look at him
12:35
he did it man out boogie
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if i say it i got to do it hey but
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listen it don't always happen when you
12:49
call but it'll happen in time
12:52
right right all right and grand rising
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across the table
12:56
absolutely what's your question
13:00
how are you how are you how are you okay
13:02
oh man i'm good man you know what i'm
13:04
saying
13:04
getting back to myself out here and you
13:06
know man it just and just working you
13:07
know what i mean it's fueling myself and
13:10
just just eating up the energy in the
13:12
game man i'm here baby
13:14
yo long long story short they said don't
13:16
take up too much time but i ain't gonna
13:17
do that
13:18
how i got put onto you five to fifty you
13:20
remember how you put it out you put a
13:22
little 30 seconds on instagram right
13:25
right something like that you put the
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video i was a little short joint
13:28
that was like trap boom caught me i
13:30
linked into that listen to the song till
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i learn
13:32
every word to the song so one day i'm
13:34
riding with wifey on a road trip i'm
13:36
like yo wifey
13:37
put on some um benny the butcher go on
13:39
youtube because i ain't heard nothing
13:40
else from put something else on
13:42
pull you up and uh rubber bands and wait
13:45
come on you remember how you started
13:46
that song
13:49
i got 10 [ __ ] lit all body catching
13:52
but before all of that though the way
13:54
you even started the song you started
13:55
off you said hey yo
13:57
al i got you oh yeah yeah yeah you know
14:00
that was my first time
14:02
a couple times uh recording without
14:04
definitely then after that so man wifey
14:07
was cracking up like yo he was talking
14:08
to you i'm al boogie from albany
14:10
remember that
14:11
you feel me
14:20
i'm telling you locked in heavy so you
14:22
you give me that that that wool flavor
14:24
i'm originally from staten island born
14:26
and raised 185
14:27
park hill baby lived in the same
14:29
building with rayquan so my question to
14:31
you
14:32
who's your favorite member of the woo
14:35
oh man my favorite member of the wolf
14:40
uh i gotta say man even though all those
14:42
dunes has been influential to me
14:44
i gotta say i gotta say ray man you know
14:46
what i'm saying i gotta say ray
14:50
because of the personal relationship
14:51
that hey you said it yo
14:53
i got you you officially broke it
15:01
yo sway remember the other day i was
15:03
telling you that when benny was on jalen
15:05
and jacoby he even spoke about the
15:07
verses between
15:08
with ray and ghost and we're seeing how
15:11
you know they asked him to come out
15:13
there just from him
15:14
you know being influenced by them and it
15:16
was such an amazing ask you know just to
15:18
have that kind of invite to be around
15:20
those legends
15:21
and whatnot even though they have a
15:22
personal relationship but to be so
15:25
part of something as monumental as that
15:26
to get that invite was crazy i was happy
15:28
benny shared that
15:29
on jalen and jacoby yeah you know that's
15:32
a big moment you know them versus those
15:34
those are big and then you know bro
15:36
wanted to
15:37
bring us out and that was that said a
15:39
lot man and man just ray he just always
15:41
been solid ever since day one so i
15:42
appreciate him
15:43
appreciate the knowledge and everything
15:45
you know what i mean that's what's up
15:46
hey al boogie we made it happen brother
15:48
stay great
15:49
tell wifey we said what up you vote for
15:51
citizens okay
15:52
i'll sway in the morning oh man now
15:56
boogie hey man benny yo
15:57
your fans they stay cool and mellow the
15:59
whole time though man
16:02
man they be managing their excitement
16:03
real cool and mellow man
16:06
this is [ __ ] they they like me they like
16:08
you man
16:09
yeah we got paris on the line and pa
16:12
what up paris
16:13
hey paris what's up what's your name
16:15
good what's good what our family was
16:17
good
16:19
come with me
16:24
he came down to check me out over there
16:26
at uh peachtree up
16:27
uh in atlanta i got a clothing line
16:30
called london
16:32
and uh y'all can come check me out but
16:33
man benny showed much love man he came
16:35
down
16:36
got a couple pieces for me man much
16:38
respect much love
16:39
he doing the thing i did that's all i
16:41
can say man
16:42
okay that's what's up you're definitely
16:45
man that still was dope you had some
16:47
dope pieces man
16:48
definitely i remember that you know i
16:49
mean i'm always supporting especially
16:53
hey paris oh why you're a citizen a sway
16:56
in the morning
16:57
all right get him out of this
17:01
spider mike what's the word man he got
17:03
it lit up in here
17:05
come on what'd it do baby
17:09
man what's popping grand rising
17:12
shay a sway who kills me
17:15
sway sorry
17:31
i got one question benny do you know
17:33
melvin marble
17:35
do i know who melvin marble
17:40
nah put me on you don't know melvin
17:45
melvin marvel hey spider-mite come on
17:48
man
17:49
we live on there who's melvin marvel
17:52
hey do you know mel you don't know
17:54
melvin marble out of buffalo new york
17:56
benny
17:57
no i'm not familiar okay
18:03
maybe i got the wrong information
18:07
keep doing your thing man
18:11
you know what hey i'm a vet
18:14
and i'm listening to your war stories
18:16
keep spitting them hard
18:19
rap appreciate that all right hey spider
18:22
mike tell mel
18:23
melvin marvel he said what up though you
18:25
a citizen bro i swear in the morning
18:28
maybe melvin marvel got a different code
18:30
name out in these streets
18:33
maybe something yeah man uh we
18:36
we got so many people on the line right
18:38
now oh jeez
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uh let's yo what i love about your fans
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man they ask you
18:43
in intricate detailed information
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he got a cold swag he got a call it's
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different than
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you know it's a cold follower it's a
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co-follower benny they asking you
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remember what you said on the wreck and
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they correcting you
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you wrote the record they like
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correcting you man that ain't what you
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said
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uh ain't no more they know more
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they know more than i know about the
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music that's a beautiful thing that's
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what you want reggie grand rides that's
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how you're doing reggie's in there
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right hey reg i'm doing good i was going
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long time just there long first time
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caller but you know vinnie the butcher
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on the phone so i had to try to get
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through
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right right yeah come on man you got a
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question for him
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well i just wanted to give him his
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flowers man i was listening to the album
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the other day as soon as you drop
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because i'm definitely a faithful fan i
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lived in buffalo
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you know and i see the circumstances
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that you know to come out of there not
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too many people can relate to it
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you know and i just want to thank them
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man you just i lost my passion for
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hip-hop
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you know i used to do music always
19:43
listening to music being hit top fan and
19:44
it just got to a point after we lost nip
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i really didn't have the motivation to
19:48
really get it to hip-hop
19:49
i found it hard finding that new artist
19:51
that i could scroll through that catalog
19:53
and then man you heard the picture
19:55
coming it's been a wrap man i go through
19:57
your whole catalog man my cousin had a
19:58
debate the other day
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you know just archive everybody fool
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conway butcher
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west side gun i mean you guys got it
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right now i'm your biggest fan
20:08
you know the survivors were more you
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know i mean that just gave me chills man
20:12
because you know
20:12
a lot a lot of people say they lived it
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but they don't really live it man you
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listen to that song
20:16
and you'll get chills you'll feel it you
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ain't living
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all right man that's the fact and it
20:21
feels good to be that to y'all you know
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i'm saying it
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and a lot of people tell me that you
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know when nip when nip kind of when he
20:27
went away you know he kind of left the
20:28
void you know i'm saying it and he feels
20:29
he feels a big spot in hip hop that
20:31
that authenticity and that kind of you
20:33
know i mean that kind of talk he was
20:34
talking we missed that and
20:36
it's so good that when you know people i
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put people kinda in the mind of nipping
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you know what i mean that's an honor i
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appreciate that
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that's a blessing man feels good to talk
20:44
to you guys i'm at work knocking it out
20:45
but i had to stop
20:46
everything i'm doing get that back
20:48
reggie all right man you're a citizen
20:50
family i love you in the morning
20:52
i think you know what it is too is like
20:54
that the admiration for nick
20:56
and us being blessed to have opportunity
20:58
to sit down and watch his
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his growth and his grind as well i i
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think the thing is
21:04
vinnie everybody see your legitimate
21:07
work ethic man and that's undeniable
21:10
like it is undeniable you got to respect
21:12
that and the artist like that work ethic
21:14
when people
21:15
kind of looked away at nip like what you
21:17
selling a mixtape for 100
21:18
yeah go ahead with that but that work
21:21
ethic and that grind and that business
21:23
plan that he stuck to
21:24
and was able to do what he do i think
21:26
people see that in you man and it's
21:28
beautiful to watch
21:29
be happy for you man thank you man
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that's big for me
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i mean i know people watching so i go
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hard you know i mean hell yeah
21:36
with no instructions and that's what i
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like even the song you got no
21:40
instructions on the uh
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album on the project um no instructions
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and and survivor's remorse uh really
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stuck out to me okay that a whole lot of
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bang we're gonna end the show with no
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instructions uh but
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to have this point congratulations man i
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said
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i know how this business could be man it
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could look one way on the on the ground
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and
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you know and on the youtube but we all
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know that this [ __ ] ain't always what it
22:09
looks usually is nothing like what it
22:11
looked like man but you're not letting
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it frustrate you
22:14
you know and and i can appreciate that
22:17
man so bennythebutcherstore.com
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go to www.bennythebutcherstore.com
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support this man he's doing it on his
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own and then
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um before before we go talk to us about
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no instructions what would it
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what prompted no instructions uh just
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i was feeling in a somber mood that day
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you know i'm saying that's why my homie
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that's my right hand man who would be
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here right with me that's him talking on
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the hook and
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i'm saying you know this this game don't
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come with no instructions there's no
22:44
manual for you know i mean
22:46
it's almost you're almost set up to fail
22:48
but you know we we in the game and we
22:50
and some of us thrive in and
22:52
take our lives and you know what i'm
22:53
saying but you know just it's just
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us so that's what i was just feeling you
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know i mean plugs plugs i met too it's a
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lot about what i
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what i'm currently going through a lot
23:01
of dudes talk about what they did and
23:02
what they've done but a lot of this
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music like
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survivors remorse and no instructions is
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like kind of what i'm what i'm currently
23:08
going through and before we get into
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that i want to say
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is when i come back and i'm saying i got
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to be i got to be in the studio because
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i am a hyena you know what i mean
23:17
we can't forget that come on
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the first cyphers you did and we was
23:24
looking at you like something wrong with
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him what's wrong with him
23:30
i was rapping like my life depended on
23:31
him
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real quick hey but here's the thing
23:37
it did depend on that yeah
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it did depend on you doing that yeah
23:45
and i always like to bring this i always
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like to bring this up i was coming on
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i was coming like 10 minutes before we
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even came on i was telling west side
23:52
guns like man i'm proud of y'all buzz
23:54
man shout me out
23:55
he was like shout you out [ __ ] you bout
23:57
to rap i said oh i
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i didn't know he put me on the spot good
24:02
because i always put him on the spot
24:06
that's what he did he took me right in
24:07
front of the bus you know you were gonna
24:09
get put him on his fight to be right in
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there i was ready though
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oh man i love him man griselda means a
24:14
little to the whole team
24:15
man benny keep doing what you're doing
24:16
brother keep doing it man you great for
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the business you're great for the
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culture
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what's been harder for you the streets
24:23
are navigating the rap game
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oh man i'm happy you asked me that man
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i'm happy you asked me that
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because you know these dudes they they
24:31
get on they these rappers
24:33
lie so much to the people that it's
24:34
terrible and it's been hard for me
24:37
navigating
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the rap game you know i'm saying i
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didn't get on until i was in my 30s you
24:41
know what i'm saying i already had to
24:42
live my life i got
24:44
grown children you know i'm saying i'm
24:46
divorced already so i was like i'm a
24:48
grown ass man
24:49
going like you know they they say this a
24:51
young man's game but i'm like you know
24:52
my comments my competitors just like
24:54
other young dudes and [ __ ] like that so
24:56
this this is all new to me you know what
24:58
i'm saying people like my family and
25:00
friends treating me different and [ __ ]
25:01
like that i'm not like i said i'm not
25:03
like 18
25:04
and i'm already already who i am so
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i'm not going to lie it's it's it's been
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hard for me i've been
25:10
done everything you would possibly do on
25:12
the streets and and i and i made it out
25:14
unscathed and i'm saying
25:15
i put i put one number one now but you
25:17
know i mean i get shot so you know i
25:19
mean
25:19
i'm i'm having i'm having trouble
25:21
navigating and [ __ ] just learning
25:23
who i am uh uh versus or who i was you
25:26
know what i'm saying because i'm a
25:27
different person from when i came on the
25:29
sway in the morning the first time so
25:30
you know
25:31
i gotta i gotta adhere to this life and
25:33
you know i mean and and move how
25:35
move like vinnie the butcher you know
25:36
i'm saying that's real man put out a
25:38
number one album and then got shot
25:41
in the streets for forever and came out
25:43
unscathed
25:44
caught in the rap game it got shot man
25:47
the game is twisted benny the butcher
25:48
the bunch is coming the game is
25:51
twisted hey man what you see that they
25:53
lying about now that you be behind the
25:55
scenes
25:56
you know we it's it's different if i say
25:58
it than if you say it
25:59
what do rappers be lying about uh also i
26:03
feel
26:03
well the the main thing you know they
26:06
they lie about
26:07
they like because they cuz the game made
26:10
it where
26:10
is it's not okay to be you you know
26:13
remember when it was okay to be you and
26:14
with dudes it was it was
26:16
like yo be yourself that's what i'm
26:18
gonna tell people it's like look at look
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at dudes like drake and look at dudes
26:22
like kendrick you know they get on they
26:23
they beat themselves
26:24
they don't talk about a hundred guns or
26:25
selling drugs and and jake hold them and
26:27
them dudes are nice and considered
26:28
top hip hop heavyweights you know what
26:31
i'm saying so i just want people to know
26:32
like man be yourself because all that
26:34
other [ __ ] is corny
26:35
before what i'm saying and another thing
26:36
you know uh
26:38
these dudes they really don't you know i
26:41
mean they they really not
26:44
their pen is really not that good you
26:46
know what i'm saying
26:47
it's only it's only several you know i
26:50
mean and a pen is not that really not
26:52
really that good and all the dope dudes
26:53
i'm not saying you just cause you to be
26:55
a good rapper you got to reach out to me
26:56
but
26:57
that's how dudes from like from as big
27:00
as drake and wayne and meek
27:02
them dudes reach out because it's still
27:03
a sport to them and they and they say
27:05
okay y'all say benny the butcher can
27:06
spit we'll send him over here you know
27:08
what i'm saying and they like line him
27:09
up let's do a track
27:10
little wayne's like telling me a conway
27:12
whatever y'all want me to do send it
27:13
you know what i'm saying so you know a
27:14
lot of these dudes they just they just
27:16
ended me for the lifestyle because they
27:18
because they just wanted some money but
27:20
they're not in it for the sport and they
27:21
use all the jewelry and all the other
27:23
cars and [ __ ] that match
27:24
that to mask that they i mean that
27:26
they're not in it for the sport but
27:28
i'm here to let people know like rappers
27:29
this this is still a contact sport you
27:31
know what i'm saying so you know you
27:32
might get bumped you might get shoved
27:33
you know get back up dust your pants off
27:35
you know
27:35
if you guys let me go the butcher's
27:38
coming that's what he's trying to let
27:39
you know
27:41
the butcher is here come on man
27:44
love it bro stay the course benny you
27:46
you stay the course bro you destined for
27:48
greatness you already walking in it
27:49
family
27:51
understand that you already walking in
27:52
greatness man so i can't wait to see the
27:54
next time we talk we got to do it in
27:56
person
27:56
all right yes yes i need that hyena drop
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i'm ready
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okay coming back man you might be one of
28:03
the first we gotta call up there to set
28:05
it off
28:06
to set it off the road joining our
28:08
concert tank
28:09
okay tasha cogs jay rock and benny let's
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see the pictures that is
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love you brother stay the course all
28:18
right i appreciate that man all love
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always
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man benny the butcher's no instructions
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