Tana Talk 4

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Each installment of Benny the Butcher’s celebrated <i>Tana Talk</i> mixtape series lifted his star just a little bit higher, and the Buffalo-hailing MC went into the release of <i>Tana Talk 4</i> expecting nothing le. “<i>Tana Talk</i> 1, I took over the hood,” he told Apple Music’s Ebro Darden. “I was on some mixtape, neighborhood…<i>Tana Talk 2</i>, I was still in the hood. I took over the city, though. <i>Tana Talk 3</i>, I took over the underground. <i>Tana Talk 4</i>, I feel like I'm taking over the world, honestly.” The Butcher’s profile has never been higher (and his jewelry never brighter), as the MC has spent the past half decade helping to build the Griselda Records brand—alongside cohorts Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine—into the industry standard for streetwise lyricism. <i>Tana Talk 4</i>, which fulfills any and all contractual obligations with the Griselda label, sets the table for the MC’s forthcoming Def Jam debut in a way that only the 2022 version of Benny the Butcher could have done. “I've been rapping since I was 16, professionally,” Benny say. “So I had war storie, but I don't got the stories I got now. Who knew I'd be on song, naming them after my girl, India? Who knew I'd be on songs talking about going through a divorce, talking about a daughter, or saying I got a stepdaughter? Just grown-people shit. That just comes with age. And I feel my listeners make me feel comfortable to talk like that.” .

via Apple Music

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