Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met (Discussion Thread)

[TheDarceKnight]

We in for treat.

Indeed!

BTW @areohbee82 the Plug House 45" vinyl has the instrumental as the b-side

 

[areohbee824]

Physical CD still available looks like

'THE PLUGS I MET' LIMITED EDITION PHYSICAL CD

@mobbinfms @TheDarceKnight @head shots101

 

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

Already copped. shyt will be sold out soon.

 

[mobbinfms]

Physical CD still available looks like

'THE PLUGS I MET' LIMITED EDITION PHYSICAL CD

@mobbinfms @TheDarceKnight @head shots101

I copped

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I copped

I grabbed one too.

I know it's only 6 tracks on here but he's 2 for 2 so far with 18 Wheeler and Plug House. I think he's gonna deliver 6 for 6 and I can't wait for this and Pinata. Gonna be a good month.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Ain’t no fukkin’ around with Benny and uncle Al.

Fire. It’s funny how almost all the rappers I still listen to in 2019 fukk with Alchemist.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

wait this is an official tissue Prodigy album ?

i thought it was some bullshyt when i saw it.
like one of those joints were an artist sold a bunch of acapellas to a company/label (like Ghostface for example.)

yeah bro Hegelian Dialectic is an official Prodigy album. It was a 3 part album and that was part 1. I don't blame you for thinking it might not be official because the artwork looks kind of off and not that official, but you gotta get on that album man!

It's different. Much less aggressive than most of his other music. I think with time it will be appreciated more and more. It's sort of like HNIC 2 in terms of content, but it's not as dark and negative with the conspiracy type content. A lot of the album is on some spiritual/higher plane type shyt. @mobbinfms may have a better description.

Also P used a lot of new producers. Obviously Alc does a couple but he used some other cats like Knxledge and Budgie. The production sounds fresh for P.

It's his most interesting album by far. There are some issues with his estate that made it have to come down from streaming platforms but parts 2 and 3 should hopefully drop this year or next year at the latest.

Follow this dude on IG. Joe The Engine Ear (@joetheengineear) • Instagram photos and videos

Joe recorded all of P's music from 2011 on, like the Albert Einstein album, etc. He tries to keep people updated on the status of all the posthumous Prodigy music to come.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Fire. It’s funny how almost all the rappers I still listen to in 2019 fukk with Alchemist.

No doubt. His staying power has been crazy for over 2 decades in the game. One thing that I think has kept him so relevant this far is he went out of his way to work with a lot of up and coming artists.

He always cosigned and worked with new cats. He did it in the early-mid 10's with Gibbs, Marci, Spitta, Mac, Odd Future, TDE...and now he's doing the same thing with Griselda, Mach Hommy, etc.

Edit: I know Roc Marci wasn’t new but his solo career was.

 

[Fake_AGent]

Benny has really proved himself and stood out from the rest of GxFR which is hard considering Con and West are talented in their own right

This sh*t looking itll be as good as TT3

 

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

No doubt. His staying power has been crazy for over 2 decades in the game. One thing that I think has kept him so relevant this far is he went out of his way to work with a lot of up and coming artists.

This separates him from Preme, Pete, & Pro. Not saying he's better than any of those dudes, but he's kept a much better job of keeping his eye out for new talent, and evolving his style to work with them. Something that Muggs has copied from him over the past couple of years.

 

[phrank kastle]

CD copped

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Benny has really proved himself and stood out from the rest of GxFR which is hard considering Con and West are talented in their own right

This sh*t looking itll be as good as TT3

I don't wanna get too crazy with the Benny hype but IMO he's the most consistent out of the 3 by far.

Even Flygod and Reject 2 which are WSG and Conway's best bodies of work I have a joint or two on each that I skip but not on TT3.

I ran TT3 back earlier this week and it's longer than Reject 2, almost as long as Flygod, and honestly I don't think there's a skipper on it. And Benny is 2 for 2 so far on the tracks I've heard for Plugs I Met. The only joint I ever skip on TT3 is Rick and that's because I wore it the fukk out since early 2017 when it dropped on Sun Tzu's channel so I'd heard it so many times already before the album dropped.

 

[AMcV'88]

yeah bro Hegelian Dialectic is an official Prodigy album. It was a 3 part album and that was part 1. I don't blame you for thinking it might not be official because the artwork looks kind of off and not that official, but you gotta get on that album man!

It's different. Much less aggressive than most of his other music. I think with time it will be appreciated more and more. It's sort of like HNIC 2 in terms of content, but it's not as dark and negative with the conspiracy type content. A lot of the album is on some spiritual/higher plane type shyt. @mobbinfms may have a better description.

Also P used a lot of new producers. Obviously Alc does a couple but he used some other cats like Knxledge and Budgie. The production sounds fresh for P.

It's his most interesting album by far. There are some issues with his estate that made it have to come down from streaming platforms but parts 2 and 3 should hopefully drop this year or next year at the latest.

Follow this dude on IG. Joe The Engine Ear (@joetheengineear) • Instagram photos and videos

Joe recorded all of P's music from 2011 on, like the Albert Einstein album, etc. He tries to keep people updated on the status of all the posthumous Prodigy music to come.

i'll get around to it.
nice to know i've got something fresh from P to listen to.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

This separates him from Preme, Pete, & Pro. Not saying he's better than any of those dudes, but he's kept a much better job of keeping his eye out for new talent, and evolving his style to work with them. Something that Muggs has copied from him over the past couple of years.

No doubt. Pete had done a couple songs with Griselda recently and seems to be catching a 2nd wind which is dope. Preem just worked with them too. Alc was working with them like 3 years ago though. I'm not too familiar with what Large Pro is up to. I should check. I know it seems like Preem isn't up to much besides some occasional placements outside of his work with PRhyme. Al's work-rate is also crazy. He's never really taken any time off and even the years where he wasn't dong as much he's still usually been more active than any of those guys as well as his late 90's peers like Just, Kanye, Bink, etc.

Nottz is the only late 90's guy I know besides Al that probably does just as much if not more work now days but a lot of it is so underground that it get no play here on The Booth. Nottz did like 3-4 full albums with cats in 2018 that no one talks about here.

 

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

I don't wanna get too crazy with the Benny hype but IMO he's the most consistent out of the 3 by far.

Even Flygod and Reject 2 which are WSG and Conway's best bodies of work I have a joint or two on each that I skip but not on TT3.

Agree on him being the best of the 3, but think FLYGOD & HBO are still the top tier GXFR releases.