Benny The Butcher Drops A Friend Of Ours 2

Benny the Butcher released A Friend Of Ours 2 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, through Perfect Time Music Group, a 10 track album credited to Benny, Black Soprano Family and Fuego Base. The Benny the Butcher A Friend Of Ours 2 album is the sequel to his 2018 project A Friend Of Ours, and it closes with Elevate, the lead single that opened the rollout in October, as stupidDOPE reported this morning.

The billing is the story. This is not a solo album with a guest list bolted on. It is a crew record built around the Black Soprano Family roster Benny founded in Buffalo, with Fuego Base sharing the headline credit and the family voices carrying the album beside him. iimiTV published the full tracklist when it was revealed on November 10, and the release-day question was whether the roster could hold a full album. Ten tracks is the answer’s shape: short, dense, and sequenced so the single arrives last, as a finale the whole record builds toward. Watch the Elevate video here:

A Friend Of Ours 2 Album, Built As A Crew Record

The feature map stays entirely inside the family. ElCamino is the album’s most present voice after Benny himself, appearing on the opener Channel Boots, on Butch In This Bxtch, and on the penultimate West End Tavern, the fullest crew moment on the record. Rick Hyde surfaces twice, on Broad Day Viewpoints and again on West End Tavern. Sule appears twice, Flames Dot Malik appears twice, and Duckman and OT The Real each take one key slot, Duckman on My City and OT The Real on 20 Dollars. There is no outside superstar guest anywhere on the album, which is a deliberate construction for a rapper whose solo records, from Tana Talk 3 and Tana Talk 4 to Burden of Proof and Everybody Can’t Go, built a consistent Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charting presence on bars alone.

Two tracks carry no listed feature, Traumatized at track four and Caine Sales at track six, and they anchor the middle of the album with solo Benny moments between the crew showcases. The titles speak his established language: My City carries the Buffalo pride that runs through the whole Griselda and Black Soprano Family story, Broad Day Viewpoints and Make It Make Sense point to the reflective writing that separates him from punchline-only lyricists, and Elevate, produced by Moose Tarantino, closes the sequence. As stupidDOPE put it in its release-day coverage: “Ten tracks, no wasted space, and a closing single that had a month to build anticipation.” iimiTV covered the Elevate video when it landed on October 30, directed by ProlificKid Films and shot around a cross-country drive toward Los Angeles.

A Griselda Double Header On One Friday

The timing doubles the statement. A Friend Of Ours 2 arrives the same day as Westside Gunn’s HEELMATIC, giving the two most visible founders of the Griselda movement major releases on a single Friday, with Conway the Machine’s Sarah single landing the same morning. iimiTV is carrying all three today: the HEELMATIC release post covers Gunn’s solo record, and the Conway single sits alongside them in the day’s river. The two albums complement rather than compete. Gunn’s is a solo persona piece; Benny’s is a family piece, grounded and roster driven, and together they show the two engines of the Buffalo era, individual world building on one side and collective loyalty on the other, still running eight years after the first A Friend Of Ours introduced the crew in 2018.

Eight Years After The First Friend

The 2018 original belongs to Benny’s breakthrough period, when the Buffalo movement was converting underground respect into national attention and Benny was establishing himself as the crew’s most traditional lyricist. Returning to the title in 2026 reframes it. The friend of ours idea was always about the circle: loyalty, trust, and the people who move together. In 2018 it introduced a world. In 2026 it shows what that world built, a functioning label with multiple voices ready to carry a full album alongside its founder, released on his own terms through Perfect Time Music Group.

That makes A Friend Of Ours 2 a proving ground as much as a release. ElCamino, Rick Hyde, Sule and Flames Dot Malik are not being tested as solo artists here; they are presented as a unit that can hold ten tracks beside one of rap’s most respected writers. Start with Channel Boots for the thesis, West End Tavern for the full family in one place, and Elevate for the victory lap Benny sequenced as the last word.