Benny the Butcher at Silk Road NYC: The Day the Co-Sign Came Back
On Saturday, June 21, 2025, Benny the Butcher came to Jamaica Avenue. Not a club date, not a record-store signing — a full day at a licensed dispensary in Queens: a meet & greet, a private Q&A, a Rolls-Royce spinning the block through Jamaica, and a music video shot in front of the store. 21+ with ID at the door. Announced eleven days earlier by @highfunctionsevents as a two-tier ticket: meet & greet 3–5PM, private Q&A 5:30–7PM.
A white Rolls-Royce parked outside 166-30 Jamaica Ave, under the neon and the sandwich board that reads New York State Licensed Cannabis Dispensary. That’s the whole story of this block in one frame: the same corner, a different era.
Our own account of the day, posted the morning after: “Shot a BSF music video in the front of the spot, meet and greet, Q&A, Benny spinning the block in a Rolls Royce driving thru Jamaica Queens pulling up to Silk Road.” A Black Soprano Family video, filmed at a licensed dispensary storefront on Jamaica Avenue.
The private Q&A
The back half of the day moved into the lounge — couches, a low marble table, jars out, a real conversation instead of a photo line. Rooms like that are where the actual exchange happens: how you get from the corner to a storefront, what changes and what doesn’t, what the paperwork costs you. We shot it because it deserved to be documented, not because it was content.
Then Benny reshared it
We cut the footage down and posted it. Benny put it on his own page.
That’s the part worth sitting with. Plenty of businesses can book an appearance — you pay a fee, you get photos, everyone goes home. What you can’t buy is the artist deciding, afterward, that the thing you made was worth showing to his own audience. That’s not a booking. That’s a co-sign.
Why an artist like that comes to Jamaica Ave
Benny the Butcher built his catalog on a specific kind of honesty about where he’s from and what it took. Silk Road NYC exists on the other side of that same arc — an operator who was on Jamaica Avenue before there was a legal market to be on it in, now holding license OCM-CAURD-24-000062, the 75th adult-use dispensary in New York State and the first Bangladeshi-owned in the state.
So it wasn’t a brand activation. It was two versions of the same story in one room, four blocks from where ours started.
That afternoon sits in a longer run: 710 dab celebrations with live rap cyphers, art nights and terpene tastings going back to June 2024, Halloweed, 4/20 Around the World, poets and producers from this borough — and years of third-party coverage documenting it as it happened.
Silk Road NYC · 166-30 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432 · licensed New York adult-use dispensary (OCM-CAURD-24-000062), steps from Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (E, J, Z). 21+ with valid ID. Next event: the events page. Meanwhile — shop the live menu for same-day Queens pickup or delivery.