Drake & Benny The Butcher drop their song 'Buffalo Freestyle'

It's taken years, but Drake and Benny The Butcher's song “Buffalo Freestyle” was finally released. It lives on Benny's new 3-song EP Buffalo Butch, released Friday, August 23.

The Griselda rapper has been talking about the song for some time now, as it was expected to be on Drake's 2021 Certified Lover Boy album. On the cut, the two gifted rappers swap impressive, braggadocious bars with Drizzy rhyming about his day-to-day life as one of rap's biggest stars.

"Psychic readings, corporate meetings, power lunches / Private funding, hundred push-ups, hundred crunches / Final touches, lemon squeezes, island breezes / Press releases, moving speeches, multi-tasking / Torches passing, strong attractions, forceful actions / What's really crackin'"? spits Drake.

Then Benny jumps in and raps about his rise from street guy to successful artist. "Here to speak for the hopefuls, keeping it soulful / Phone face down at the bar, having' drinks at Komodo / Hope these meetings on rooftops never turn into jail visits / It only put a smile on my face when the scale tipping / Despite the well wishes from y'all, I held distance / They praying my success stories turn into failed missions," he raps.

Benny's Buffalo Butch EP marks the third project he's released this year, dropping his Def Jam debut Everybody Can't Go in January and Summertime Butch in early August. The two other songs on Buffalo Butch are "Penny & Shaq Freestyle," featuring 38 Spesh and "Hard Way Freestyle," featuring Fabolous.

It's not clear why the Drake-assisted “Buffalo Freestyle” wasn't on Benny's Def Jam debut. It could have to do with Drake being allowed to decide when it would come out.

“Drake is Drake," Benny once told Connected, according to HipHopDX. "He’s the biggest artist in the world, so ain’t no telling where that song gonna land. We got the song, I played it for all the homies. It’s a vibe and he gotta place that where he sees fit."