But there’s no Nas-style back-in-the-day sentimentality: “PWRDRL” sees Benny reminiscing about his life when “the Towers fell,” detailing drug trafficking from Houston to Baton Rouge, and declaring, “I’m an old school n***a, my morals come from the past.”īenny raps reliably about hustling and buying nice things with the dividends. The era-specific production, handled entirely by Chop-La-Rock and Rare Scrilla, is matched with pockets of nostalgia throughout the album. Some may lament that there’s nothing as dark and spectral as, say, “3.30 In Houston,” but for those who miss buying XXL at the bodega stand, Pyrex Picasso will satisfy their cravings. “Flood the Block” features familiar slapped guitars, dramatic samples, and a reduced focus on bass, with Benny’s deliberate approach even shadowing Cam’ron’s flow. But it accentuates many of his strengths, highlights no unknown weaknesses, and is peppered with some of the finest tracks of Benny’s recent purple patch-an era that will be remembered as golden for The Butcher. At just seven tracks and less than 20 minutes in length, the record is skinny, the kind of seemingly inconsequential release that Griselda artists regularly drop between major projects (see Gunn’s Hitler Wears Hermes series). Recorded in a single day back in 2019, Pyrex Picasso is part of a rush of excellent recent releases from Benny. Instead, he brings the blunt urgency of Kool G Rap, rich storytelling that draws from years of selling heroin, and a taste for beats inspired by the early-to-mid-2000s work of producers like the Heatmakerz and Just Blaze. Benny’s music feels less painstakingly crafted than Westside Gunn’s. The group has attracted 1,000 Wu-Tang comparisons, which aren’t inaccurate but ignore that Griselda’s grimy boom-bap comes with its own glittering flourishes and high art proclivities. So yeah, fighting Terminids, while they have their problems, feel better to play against.Benny has proven himself a man apart by diversifying Griselda’s sonic philosophy. Using Mechs against them is a death sentence, they pretty much one shoot you with that too Then there's blocking use of Stratagems, and modifierd on top. It's discouraging getting one shot constantly, and many of the Automatons soldiers are extremely tanky in terms of TTK, and most weapons bounce off them half the time. And it doesn't help that they have some godly aim from up to 100 meters or more away. Dealing with all this can be frustrating. Rocket Devastators, Cannons, Motars, Tank, Rocket Soldiers, the Automatons that jump to you and if you kill them to close to you they explode and kill you. I think it's also safe to say, they have too many things that one shot you too. I also feel like weapons just don't do enough with them either, and they call in a crazy amount of reinfoments too. I think the reason why is because Automatons are just genuinely harder to fight, and they can kill you at a distance. We cannot seem to liberate Malevaleon Creek, and all the other planets are being liberated at a slower rate. Terminids will have 200/400k+ fighting and Automatons have like 50k or so. The player count for Automatons is always significantly lower than with Terminids.
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