Jarren Benton x MadFreshDaily “My Grandmas Basement“

For an artist with serious mainstream aspirations, Decatur, Georgia’s Jarren Benton has spent his career going against the grain. One of Funk Volume’s premiere acts, Jarren admits, “I love the music I do now. I do it in the safe-mode.“ That’s rather shocking for an artist whose last album, Freebasing With Kevin Bacon lived up to its name, at least in attitude and style, evident on single “Skitzo.“ He continues, “I want to take it a lil’ further. I just haven’t had the balls to go all the way there yet, ’cau