Benny Watts came home from a 17-year stretch and immediately went to work – two full albums, multiple features, and a developing network of underground collaborations built through his Car-Mafia collective and studio partnership with Pete Twist at The Boiler Room Studios in Virginia. Fuego Base has been climbing steadily through the Black Soprano Family ranks since his Biggest Since Camby debut and has now co-headlined a full album with Benny the Butcher through BSF. "Band Chasing," pulled from Benny Watts' forthcoming 1000 Watts album, works because neither MC is coasting. The production from Sypooda is built for momentum, and both artists treat the beat like real estate to be claimed. The BSF-Car-Mafia alliance reflects a genuine functional overlap between two collectives that operate on similar principles: street-level authenticity, zero compromise on craft, loyalty to the independent model. The "Avengers meets Justice League" framing from the promotional copy is a bit much, but the result on tape doesn't need that selling point.
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