From Wu-Tang To Post Malone - The Craziest Stories To Happen Inside This Sydney Venue

Post Malone

He has come through three times now I think. The first time was before he had even hit his crazy heights of stardom, but he was as sweet the third time as he was the very first! He is a really good dude, probably one of the nicest of all the celebs we have ever had come through Butter. He also kindly wore our very first Butter retail release on stage at FOMO Festival in front of 20,000 people.

My fave memory of Posty was from the last time he came through with Tyler Yaweh. He had had a little bit too much to drink and I took him and Dre London up to the carpark above the Surry site and we had a good chat about life and love and food while he was sobering up a little. He was really interested in food and my takes on cooking and flavours and cuisines etc. He really showed how humble and normal he was even though he was insanely famous by then.

Wu-Tang Clan

The first ever hip hop artists we had come through Butter two weeks after we opened the doors at the Surry Hills venue in 2016.

What can I say, it was surreal! It was Ghostface, RZA and Raekwon the chef! We had, like, 30 minutes notice that they would be coming through and we closed the place down and whoever was in there was in there. It was awesome - Rae, me and one of our other head chefs have a picture together which I will always cherish - the three chefs!

But it was even more important for my business partner Manoli - a big part of the reason why he had us start Butter was to play hip hop and Wu-Tang specifically in a public place - something he felt was lacking in Sydney. He also says that Wu-Tang raised him, so it was like him meeting his adopted parents for the first time. There is a picture of all of us outside Butter as they were leaving where Rae is hugging Manoli - apparently, he rates it up there with his wedding photos.

Wu-Tang come back to Butter on their 30th anniversary tour for 36 Chambers and they also invited us to hang with them backstage at the Sydney Opera House before the very last show of the tour. Before the show, it was me and Manoli in a room with all the members of the Clan (excluding ODB of course, but his son Young Dirty was there and so was Cappadonna) and Tarek (their tour manager, I guess) was going through with them what was going to happen on stage 'cause this was the show that would be filmed for the documentary that was released. It was literally just us and them and a lot of weed smoke in that tiny little backstage room.

And then we watched the whole show from right next to the stage at the Opera House. I have never seen Manoli as happy as that day.

Juice WRLD

This one is a happy and very sad story.

Sad because when Juice got back to the US from his Oz tour, that's when his unfortunately passed away.

Happy because we had a line of people waiting to meet him, stretching around three corners for our Surry shop - all the way back up to the entrance to [local restaurant] Chin Chin.

It was also where he met The Kid LAROI for the first time (as the story goes) and the Billboard picture that Sony put up for The Kid LAROI in Times Square was of LAROI and Juice WRLD having a chat in Butter!

He was a really nice guy - very happy to have a chat with his long line of fans as the came through for the meet and greet. We are all heartbroken he is gone, but very thankful that he found and signed The Kid LAROI who is now doing amazingly repping Sydney to the world.

A$AP Ferg

Fergie! Our man! Ferg has come through a couple of times and Facetimes us every now and again.

My fave memory was the first time he came through and after we finished at Butter he invited us to go to the studio with him where he was recording the bars for a song with Aussie producer What So Not. No phones or anything were allowed into the session and we all just watched on as Ferg dropped his bars.

And then of course he dropped Aussie Freaks which is basically now our unofficial theme song - "I hit Butter, invite all the Aussie freaks!"

Thx Fergie! You will never know how much that little reference meant to us!