Benny the Butcher- Burden of Proof (Discussion Thread)

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This might not be Tana Talk 3 but its a great fukking project. One if the top 10 this year no doubt.

Honestly it makes me want to revisit Tana Talk 3 more critically. Great album but man...Burden Of Proof just knocks. I was on the road yesterday and this morning, listening to the album a lot. It rides. The sonics are perfect, the bass knocks, the drums knock, it's mastered well...man. So my question becomes: now that Benny has touched this, is he gonna go back to boring drums, tracks that don't knock shyt from Daringer? No disrespect. I really like Tana Talk 3. But most of it doesn't knock. Does Benny want a bigger sound now? Is he gonna be giving us Ross type shyt going forward or go back. Will be interesting.

Reminds me of when Nip worked with MixedByAli on Victory Lap and said it changed his entire perspective on what your shyt should sound like. When you hear your shyt booming from a car like that - or like Burden Of Proof - it's hard to go back to the paper thin snares.
 
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Honestly it makes me want to revisit Tana Talk 3 more critically. Great album but man...Burden Of Proof just knocks. I was on the road yesterday and this morning, listening to the album a lot. It rides. The sonics are perfect, the bass knocks, the drums knock, it's mastered well...man. So my question becomes: now that Benny has touched this, is he gonna go back to boring drums, tracks that don't knock shyt from Daringer? No disrespect. I really like Tana Talk 3. But most of it doesn't knock. Does Benny want a bigger sound now? Is he gonna be giving us Ross type shyt going forward or go back. Will be interesting.

Reminds me of when Nip worked with MixedByAli on Victory Lap and said it changed his entire perspective on what your shyt should sound like. When you hear your shyt booming from a car like that - or like Burden Of Proof - it's hard to go back to the paper thin snares.
I hope it encourages Daringer to spice his formula up, if nothing else. Indeed, he laid the foundation for Griselda to get their start, but he's definitely been lapped by better choices for his camp at this point. I know I'm not in a rush to hear another Daringer/Beat Butcha collab.
 

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Honestly it makes me want to revisit Tana Talk 3 more critically. Great album but man...Burden Of Proof just knocks. I was on the road yesterday and this morning, listening to the album a lot. It rides. The sonics are perfect, the bass knocks, the drums knock, it's mastered well...man. So my question becomes: now that Benny has touched this, is he gonna go back to boring drums, tracks that don't knock shyt from Daringer? No disrespect. I really like Tana Talk 3. But most of it doesn't knock. Does Benny want a bigger sound now? Is he gonna be giving us Ross type shyt going forward or go back. Will be interesting.

Reminds me of when Nip worked with MixedByAli on Victory Lap and said it changed his entire perspective on what your shyt should sound like. When you hear your shyt booming from a car like that - or like Burden Of Proof - it's hard to go back to the paper thin snares.
I’m curious your opinion. Because at the time I was very tired of Daringer and his contributions on there all knocked to me and that’s why I liked it so much. I think Daringer had 10 beats and Alc had 4. 2 of Daringer’s had no drums (the Royce joint and the Conway joint) but all his other ones knocked pretty hard I thought. I thought Daringer leveled up on there but he’s dropped a lot since then I haven’t liked as much.

I mean I get what you mean. TT3 doesn’t knock on the same way as Burden. It’s not as “widespread appeal knock worthy”. But yeah I’m curious to know what you think after you re-listen.
 

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"Famous", "Trade It All", "Thank God I Made It" and "One Way Flight" are on repeat.

This definitely feels like a real continuation of that prime Roc sound, ik fukking with this heavy. Benny has really got it brehs.

Need to go cop that vinyl. This is gonna stay in rotation for a minute.

Only gripe is the mix seems a bit heavy on the vocals on a couple of tracks, but Guru tends to do that recently.
 
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