'Grocery Stores Ain't Safe': Buffalo Rapper Benny the Butcher Addresses Hometown Massacre on New Track

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'Grocery Stores Ain't Safe': Buffalo Rapper Benny the Butcher Addresses Hometown Massacre on New Track
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Benny the Butcher has released 'Welcome to the States' and is raising money for the families of the victims of the racially motivated mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo.

in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. On Monday, the rapper released his track “Welcome to the States” addressing the massacre and the need for reform.

“Ideologies formed on hate,” Benny raps on the Kendrick Lamar “We Cry Together”-sampled track. “Now the grocery stores ain’t safe.” The black-and-white music video — which has a fundraiser for the National Crime Victim Bar Association and other organizers helping the shooting victims’ families tied to it — laces clips of grocery stores and American imagery with historical clips of the Ku Klux Klan.in my city, eight minutes from where my block at. Saw innocent people shot at a supermarket I shop at,” he raps, before ending the song with an audio clip from President Joe Biden’s speech addressing the shooting.

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