38 SPESH AND BENNY THE BUTCHER - STABBED AND SHOT

limited white splatter version #148/500

Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with the first 200 pressed on white vinyl with red splatter, and 300 on black vinyl.

Collaborative album between Benny the Butcher & 38 Spesh. It's the second LP for the Rochester rapper, the fifth for Benny. The duo have already collaborated profitably nine years earlier, in the tape , despite the criticism has ignored it because of the really high number of tapes released in the year 2009.

Opens an intro produced by Lil Eto: skit on piano keys, then simple jazzy minimal rhythm, simple boom bap, bare female sample looped in background, good delivery of the duo in this introductory cut. "Driver Seat" follows: Benny & 38 Spesh deliver going back and forth in a LOX-style, then LOX themselves arrive to close the second verse, on a jazzy and simple rhythm of Chub, vibrant and a little dark. However, the cut isn't the classic you can expect from the four talented rappers. Trypps Beatz provides the rhythms for the following two tracks producing a simple, vibrant jazzy rhythm in "Thruway Music", on which the duo drop hardcore on vibes trap, and realizing a tight beat in the fourth song, in which a female soulful sample looped distant in background, acts as musical carpet to the dirty and rough delivery of Benny & 38 Spesh. Daringer's flash in the middle of the album, to give a Griselda to the collaboration: good boom bap jazzy rhythmic, tight and essential, lethal delivery of the duo on a faster and more frenetic production than usual for the producer. "Paper Trail" is a cut produced by 38 Spesh himself, which provides an excellent light and essential jazzy rhythm, with Benny continuing to build solid cuts. The seventh song is "So Strategic": Trypps Beatz returns to production, simple and essential dark jazzy boom bap, looped sample of a little girl crying in background, good smoothness delivery of the duo. Solo of 38 Spesh in "My River": short cut which is a very strong one; jazzy dope rhythm, uptempo, excellently provided by Rain, with a soulful female sample very deep looped tight in background and made distant for the smooth, energetic delivery of 38 Spesh. Benny's solo is also a fairly short song, the Buffalo rapper delivers slow, smooth, and on a good dusty jazzy rhythm of Chup with piano keys in background. Closes "Game Away", excellent simple, tight and syncopated jazzy rhythm provided by Black Metaphor, excellent back and forth delivery of the duo with Emanny on the soul hook.

Dirty and rough album: it's full of truly quotable lines, too many to put all of them, and good verses more or less all solid, don't sleep on this, 38 Spesh gave us two of the best album-collabo of 2018, one is here.

Highlights: "Driver Seat", "Gun or Knife", "Paper Trail", "So Strategic", "My River", "Man of the Kitchen"

track listing.

1 Intro 3:28

producer 2 Driver Seat 3:36 feat. & producer 3 Thruway Music 3:16 producer 4 Gun or Knife 3:25 producer 5 2 Weapons 2:35 producer 6 Paper Trail 4:15 producer 7 So Strategic 2:51 producer 8 - My River 2:08 Rajn producer 9 - Man of the Kitchen 1:56 producer 10 Game Away 3:13 feat.

grab this while you can ... its a must have for any benny fan!!!