A biography for Benny the Butcherhasn’t been written yet.
“Man, the 'Tana Talk' series, it just goes deep. I tell people this all the time: I dropped 'Tana Talk' and I took over the hood, I dropped '2' and I took over the city, I dropped '3' and I took over the underground, you know what I'm saying?”
“As far as the movies, I mean, who don't want to act? Who don't think they could act? People don't realize, it was just so much fun and such a therapeutic release to be able to act on screen.”
“People love stories that keep them at the edge of the seat.”
“My favorite rapper of all time is Beyonce's husband.”
“Our heroes aren't everybody else heroes.”
“I'm going to bring the streets back to the forefront.”
“They think me or Conway not contractually Griselda, they think it's smoke with each other. We're doing business, man. We're growing further as artists, as men, as execs in the game, you nah I'm sayin?”
“Everybody makes it to different checkpoints and that's why they say it's lonely at the top. That crowd that you show with from jump, you don't show with that crowd at the top. And I don't make the rules I just play by 'em.”
“I used to like MC Breed, the old Tupac. All of that music. I was hungry. I was like a sponge. I was taking all of that in.”
“It's OK. It's not the best thing in the world. I'm saying fame is one of those things that if you don't have it, you want it. And when you get it, you're like, 'OK, it's all right.'”
“I'm telling people, 'I'm a legend now.' I'm trying to prove that with these albums, with the work that I'm putting in, with the legacy I'm leaving.”
“Westside Gunn is the architect of the Griselda sound.”
“Everybody I work with, from Roc Nation to Griselda to Def Jam, I choose.”
“I got all types of rapper homeboys that's friends, that's dope, that's legends. Everytime they're dropping an album, I'm not asking why I'm not on that stuff.”
“A lot of people try to hang their thoughts on love, right? So long as they love you, they feel they can do whatever they want to you, and it leaves no responsibility to be a good human being.”
“Everything is not for everybody.”
“When we lay our path for guys who following our path, we should embrace them.”
“Rap gave me a lot.”
“Hip-hop really saved me.”
“Daytona' is just, like - man, I call music gospel music when I get a certain feeling from it. You get chills. 'Come Back Baby,' 'Santeria.'”