It’s feeling like a Buffalo takeover today, huh? How about getting Benny the Butcher teaming up with his Black Soprano Family for their hard-hitting A Friend of Ours 2 studio project? My goodness.
Benny the Butcher delivers with his ‘A Friend of Ours 2’ album
The music is always solid whenever Benny is serving up but having his crew like Fuego Base and OT The Real on a slew of anthems? My goodness.
Griselda mainstay and Black Soprano Family founder Benny The Butcher has just released his label collaborative album A Friend Of Ours 2 –– out now via Perfect Time Music Group, alongside a music vide for “Caine Sales”. A Friend Of Ours 2 serves as the sequel to 2018’s Griselda cult-classic A Friend Of Ours, and the ten tracks are an expansive lens into the world of Benny The Butcher, who has spent the past few years maintaining his steady streak as one of Hip-Hop’s most prolific street rap stalwarts while developing his B$F roster. The album drifts between vintage boom-bap production, intricate wordplay and percussive-style beats that resonate with the rapper’s deeply lived experience in New York. Tracks like “Make It Make Sense”, produced by Conductor Williams, present a soulful, introspective side that shows how far the rapper has come: “I used to rack up clientete / now I stack up sky miles.” Prominently featuring Fuego Base, OT The Real, Sule and others, A Friend of Ours 2 is a broad palette that continues Benny The Butcher’s penchant for immersive storytelling. The release comes two days after Benny The Butcher and the Black Soprano Family kicked off their Came A Long Way From Selling Dope Tour, which touches down in dates across the East Coast throughout the rest of the month.
It’s been a packed few years for Benny The Butcher. He released Ashes In The Safe, a collaboration with Fuego Base this past spring which included a performance of “Like It Is” for COLORS. In 2025 alone, Benny The Butcherreleased Excelsior, Summertime Butch 2, and STABBED & SHOT 2 with 38 Spesh, the follow up to 2024’s Summertime Butch and 2018’s Stabbed & Shotrespectively. The rapper has additionally had a steady run of singles and appearances including this past year alone on Armani Caesar’s “Sephora in Ibiza”, “Summer ‘26” with Harry Fraud, “Everything Is Up” with Dave East, and The Plugs I Met 2.5, the second sequel to his celebrated The Plugs I Metalbum. In August he performed at the Roots Picnic in London and in September made an appearance at Boiler Room Los Angeles. Now with A Friend Of Ours 2, Benny and the rest of the Black Soprano Family are back together on their finest form yet.
