Benny The Butcher‘s Everybody Can’t Go won’t hit the streets until early next year, but there are already some fans who are confused about the meaning of the album’s title.
But the Buffalo, NY, native broke down the meaning on a recent episode of the Rap Radar podcast. As has become commonplace for the Butcher, Everybody Can’t Go has a tapestry of meanings, including loyalty and being “built different.”
“Everybody can’t go because they not cut like that,” he explained. “They not made like that. And you can’t dance to every song, you know what I’m saying? […] Everything is not for everybody. With new levels come new devils, and I want more. I want bigger for myself.”
He continued: “When you make that first cut — when you clearly see, ‘these people are not for me, they don’t need to be here’ — so the people who made that, who got past that cut, they think they’re safe. And what I mean by level up, you know, is my way of thinking. And of course, my way of making music.”
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In the same interview, Benjamín El Carnicero said that he doesn’t feel people have enough respect for the “rapper” title.
“It’s not a lot of respect on being a rapper right now,” Benny expressed. “Rap gave me a lot. I should be able to say that loud and proud but people try to hate on that.
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“A lot of these podcasts, influencers, a lot of these characters, they criticize rap. They got whole platforms to criticize rap in a bad way.
“Rap is this, rap is that, shitting on a rapper. I hate that because we are almost the bar for how people live their lives. You’ll hear somebody say, ‘I’m richer than rappers.’”
Everybody Can’t Go will be Benny the Butcher’s first album on the Def Jam imprint. He has been teasing the album drop since the beginning of the year.
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In August, the BSF rapper previewed a fiery guest feature from Lil Wayne.
He played the Weezy verse at a Buffalo day party he was hosting at the time. “This my new single off my album,” he told those in attendance. “This my first time doing some major shit. Def Jam shit. Play this shit — it’s the new single.”
“New Orleans to Buffalo/ Big dog, Siberian Husky flow/ I been a big dog since a puppy, though/ My kennel was a bungalow/ You could walk the dog, I still run the show/ Run from me, n-ggas that be barking turn to hushpuppies,” Lil Wayne spits on the track.
