Wyd Benny, a Kansas City rapper who moved to Minnesota this summer, talks with Ty McDuffey on the Duff Radio Podcast for a 97-minute interview: skateboarding as meditation, writing music every day, marketing a rap career with business cards and stickers, having no idols, Mozart dying broke, aliens, consciousness, and how he wants to be remembered. Benny is on the Duff Radio tracks Nun' to Say and Duff Freestyle and twice on Vol. 2, and he was on the podcast with Jace Camden and Gittyman in 2023. We recorded this one over Google Meet on November 4, 2026, seven months after our last session together. He spent the summer skateboarding again and explains why it works like meditation, and why a new skate park, a new town and a new routine make you better at adapting. He wrote his last album to Gittyman's beat catalog and recorded it with Jace before the move. He writes every day, like a journal with a beat on it, and he leaves a lot of songs unrecorded on purpose. In high school he printed a thousand business cards, made wristbands, baseball cards and hoodies, and put his face on every site he could. He explains why he is more careful about the internet now. He does not have an idol. The people he supports most are the homies. He saw his first bald eagle in Minnesota and has wild turkeys in his parking spot. He works at Chipotle, a dispensary has reached out, and for the first time he has no game plan. From there it goes wide: screen fatigue, Mozart dying broke, cameras and Bluetooth, Augustus Caesar never taking a hot shower, Idiocracy, evolution, consciousness, aliens, three knocks on a door in Georgia, and how he wants to be remembered. He is back in Kansas City around Thanksgiving, and he is finishing a Duff hoodie in his basement. Wyd Benny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wydbenny Wyd Benny on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6gGiTWSmzArvaIRboQntNm Duff Radio on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duffradio In this episode: Seven months since the Nun' to Say session, and a summer of skateboardingMoving from Kansas City to Minnesota, near his mom's side of the familyWriting to Gittyman's beats and recording with Jace Camden before the moveWriting music every day, songs he never records, and why he writesMarketing a rap career in high school: business cards, wristbands, baseball cardsInternet safety for artists, copyright strikes, and what the screens are forNo idols, the drive through Iowa, bald eagles and wild turkeys in MinnesotaHow he wants to be remembered, Chipotle, and having no game planMozart died broke, cameras and Bluetooth, Augustus Caesar's cold showersIdiocracy, evolution, consciousness, aliens, and life in the universeEvery episode of the Duff Radio Podcast: duffradio.com
