Benny the Butcher and Drake’s “Buffalo Freestyle” Has Allegedly Been Removed From Streaming
Benny the Butcher and Drake’s long-teased collaboration “Buffalo Freestyle” apparently hit streaming services last night, but has since disappeared.
Late on Thursday, Aug. 22, the track arrived on multiple streaming platforms, but curiously not Apple Music, as part of the Buffalo Butch, Vol 1 EP. Fans on the r/Drizzy Reddit noticed that the song vanished from Spotify on Friday, with other streaming services including YouTube following shortly after. The rapper has not addressed the removal of the song, which he first teased all the way back in 2020.
Benny the Butcher revealed that he recorded a collaborative song with Drake in 2020. When asked for an update on the track the following year, he said that they actually traded songs for each other’s projects. He said that there was a possibility it could never drop, knowing how the music industry works, but stressed that he would push for its release whenever it made sense.
More than two years later, he suggested that the track was shelved. When asked about the song not materializing, he said he wasn’t happy about the situation.
“I was pissed, I’m not gon’ lie. It’s a fucking Drake record,” he said. “It was my biggest record…It’s a record just sitting in my pocket but I understand the mechanics of the business.”
Ultimately, he said he wasn’t sure what happened to the song, but he never held it against Drizzy.
“No way did I take it like ‘Damn he fucked me over.’ I swear to God I didn’t take it like that because this is Drake; the biggest artist in the world,” Benny said. “Even for him to hit me up personally, that lets me know where he at.”
This story is developing and may be updated.
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