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Benzino Details Beef With Eminem And Shady Records
Benzino Discusses Beef With Eminem & Shady Records
Over the weekend, Benzino appeared on Noreaga’s Drink Champs for a conversation which led to the discussion of his beef with Eminem and Shady Records.
At the thirty-six-minute mark of the convo, Zino admits that he did use his position at The Source to his advantage against Em.
“The only time I gave myself the mics was the Eminem situation,” he says.
“It was me against the staff, me against everybody. At that point, it was just fuck everybody. I was in a dark place where I felt like ‘I’m standing for something that’s right.’ I felt like nobody backed me.”
“You can’t look at the industry to be righteous,” he muses, prompting Nore to ask whether he’d change his tactics if given the chance. “At that time, I felt deep about what I was standing for,” he claims.
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“My thing is hip-hop is the only thing that made white people come to the culture, buy into the culture, spend money, and also interact with the culture through hip-hop.”
“I felt like once they get a white rapper and make it so white people want to buy him, they fuck with that balance. Cause now white people will just fuck with him cause of his skin color. Before they had to fuck with us cause of the music.”
“With Eminem, I felt hip-hop is big now, it’s pop now,” continues Zino, fueling his prediction that the industry would mobilize behind a popular white rapper. “He came in, there was a whole demographic of white people who just ain’t fuckin with n***as, period.”
I don’t give a fuck. Those are the guys who’d vote Donald Trump.” He goes on to explain that while Eminem raps, he’s not “of the culture.” “Eminem is not in the culture that I’m from,” he added.
“That’s not a bad thing. I’m not mad at that. He grew up one way, I grew up a whole different way…He grew up where there weren’t a lot of black people.”
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