{"id":3480,"date":"2021-03-31T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2024-09-26T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:51:34","slug":"a-rollout-exclusive-benny-the-butcher-does-his-part-to-keep-griseldas-reputation-for-bars-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"A RollOut Exclusive &#8211; Benny The Butcher Does His Part To Keep Griselda\u2019s Reputation For Bars Intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When The Plugs I Met dropped in June of 2019, Benny the Butcher was a promising if somewhat secondary member of the then-burgeoning Griselda Records empire. Upon the release of The Plugs I Met 2, composed with New York production stalwart Harry Fraud, he\u2019s a certified star, so comfortable in his personal trajectory that\u2019s he\u2019s had the time\u2014and resources\u2014to launch BSF Records, a label comprising members of his Black Soprano Family crew. Save for Rick Hyde on \u201cSurvivor\u2019s Remorse,\u201d BSF is largely absent from The Plugs I Met 2, Benny having reserved the majority of the project\u2019s guest spots for NYC rap legends French Montana, Fat Joe, Jim Jones, and the dearly departed Chinx. But no Griselda project is about the guests, and The Plugs I Met 2 is no different in that regard, Benny painting vivid pictures of street life as he sees it. \u201cFor street n***as I\u2019m the new catalyst, but who fathomed it?\/My heroes in federal sweatsuits and New Balances,\u201d he raps on \u201cWhen Tony Met Sosa.\u201d The project on the whole is something akin to getting reps up in an empty gym: impressive, to be sure, but also exactly what we know he\u2019s capable of.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3481\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3481\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Benny-the-Butcher-Harry-Fraud.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Benny-the-Butcher-Harry-Fraud.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Benny-the-Butcher-Harry-Fraud-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Benny-the-Butcher-Harry-Fraud-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/artist-to-watch\/benny-the-butcher-harry-fraud-the-plugs-i-met-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>StreamThePlugsIMet2<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When The Plugs I Met dropped in June of 2019, Benny the Butcher was a promising if somewhat secondary member of the then-burgeoning Griselda Records empire. Upon the release of The Plugs I Met 2, composed with New York production stalwart Harry Fraud, he\u2019s a certified star, so comfortable in his personal trajectory that\u2019s he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[474,475,357,274,476,477,350],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-rollout-features","tag-benny","tag-butcher","tag-exclusive","tag-griselda","tag-intact","tag-reputation","tag-rollout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}