Benzino On Why He Was Wrong For Beefing With Eminem & Talks Losing The Source Magazine

You would have risked everything that you had ever worked for to release a tape that was recorded when Eminem was 17 years old? If that tape had been recorded while Eminem was in his 20's or 30's, its release would have resulted in a more favourable outcome for Benzino.
As it was, it brought The Source to its knees and - along with his rap beef with Eminem - it ripped Benzino's career to shreds.

That´s journalism ! u find a story ,u do your research and print it . That´s the job! The problem was that benzino´s !![..] was trying to be a star and ether people ,using his power .He was trying to be a dictator "back down,bow down" and it backfired !Cant mix journalism and politics
Again if u had those tapes and u sit on it, go find another job ...

Sidenote: This beat is the best thing Benzino's ever been[..]ociated with:



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The only Benzino song I ever liked.

Benzino exposed eminem but instead of hip hop fans and Other MC's riding with him they took eminem's side and said nothing[pic]

[pic] Yeah, the Investors booted Benzino and Dave Mays from the magazine and completely revamped it in late '05/early '06, to the point where the new editor apologized to the readers for Benzino and Mays turning the magazine into their mouthpiece to beef with everyone they had a problem with at the time (Eminem of course, 50 Cent & G-Unit Records, Dr. Dre, Nas, Angie Martinez, Ebro Darden [Program Director at Hot 97], and Tracy Cloherty [Another higher-up at Hot 97], among others), forcing The Source writers to write articles dissing the above people under threat of firing, and even for failing to mail subscribers all their issues. In short, Mays and Benzino damn near ran The Source like a Dictatorship, so it's no wonder he's resentful about losing it--Who else was going to promote his and his group Made Men/The Almighty RSO's music? [pic]

Sidenote: This beat is the best thing Benzino's ever been[..]ociated with:



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I never understood that.

Somebody is using Black music to make racist songs while telling the world his best friend growing up was a Black man?

Interscope did a great job through the media to cover up and sugar-coat that scandal.


I wonder why people say the beef with Emenim ended Benzinos rap-career, he was never a big star moving a bunch of records...

"but but em had a black girlfriend":

And people bought it :[pic][pic]

I used to subscribe for like a few years during the heat of all the beef with Ja/murk Inc/Benzino vs. Shady/Aftermath. I remember one issue, the Hip Hop Quotable was him dissing Em on Die Another Day. [pic]

Then there was the review of Made Men's album that Benzino wrote himself and used an alias, and then everyone found out that the writer didnt' exist. He gave the Made Men album 4.5 mics [pic] I think he gave Obie Trice's first album like 3 mics [pic]

Zino had a point during the feud though. He was just didn't express it the right way. Of course he's trying to remold his image now so not shocked he regrets it all. Dude lost his magazine and whatever fame he had left as a solo artist over some dumba#s hip hop beef.

And these are by far the hardest joints Zino has ever been on:

I can't believe nobody posted that mademen Lox Joint off the belly soundtrack. The joint was bananas

Anyway Benzino had a valid message/point but his approach was all kinds of !!ed up

I remember his interview with Angie Martinez he was just basicly saying the machine of the industy is tying to boost eminem as the best rapper alive while promoting black acts such as ying yang twins and whatever crunk ignorant black acts along with eminem while not pushing the likes of artist like kweli or whatever

He had a valid point but Angie was like eminem is popular cuz he touches alot of demographics which is true and be just Happened to be one of the best emcees in the game at the moment too. Em was in his prime at that point.

Anyway he just came off as a bitter chick and doesn't help that his magazine was extremely biased and had an agenda what wasn't even hidden that shot was obvious as hell

who has a black girlfriend and your black best fried is supposedly Proof but you making racist tapes and using the N-Word over HipHop beats? Hell naw that doesn't add up.


He's got awesome multi's so let's hive him a pa#s.

[pic] Yeah, the Investors booted Benzino and Dave Mays from the magazine and completely revamped it in late '05/early '06, to the point where the new editor apologized to the readers for Benzino and Mays turning the magazine into their mouthpiece to beef with everyone they had a problem with at the time (Eminem of course, 50 Cent & G-Unit Records, Dr. Dre, Nas, Angie Martinez, Ebro Darden [Program Director at Hot 97], and Tracy Cloherty [Another higher-up at Hot 97], among others), forcing The Source writers to write articles dissing the above people under threat of firing, and even for failing to mail subscribers all their issues. In short, Mays and Benzino damn near ran The Source like a Dictatorship, so it's no wonder he's resentful about losing it--Who else was going to promote his and his group Made Men/The Almighty RSO's music? [pic]

Sidenote: This beat is the best thing Benzino's ever been[..]ociated with:



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Benzino exposed eminem but instead of hip hop fans and Other MC's riding with him they took eminem's side and said nothing[pic]