Benzino has said that he’s the reason that André 3000 made his now-infamous 1995 Source Awards speech — and he’s ready to own up to his mistakes.
The former Source co-founder continued his mea culpa tour when he stopped by Ray Daniels’ GAUDS — Goats and Underdogs — podcast. The full episode, which dropped today (April 10), featured Benzino giving all the tea on how he managed to piss off the former OutKast frontman.
“The reason why André 3000 said what he did, I’ma have to tell y’all this story,” he said. “When they was giving OutKast 4.5 mics, I remember, I didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand the music. And I was the one who kinda raised some situations up at The Source, I’m gonna admit it. And I was wrong. I think it got to OutKast. And I think that’s why André said what he said. I think that was kinda directed toward me.
Benzino was referring to André 3000’s infamous speech at the 1995 Source Awards. After OutKast won the coveted Best New Rap Group Award, the Grammy winner — unfazed by the prevalent East Coast-West Coast rap beef that was casting a serious undertone to this and other awards ceremonies — strutted up to the mic and said, “But it’s like this though: I’m tired of folks, — them closed-minded folks. It’s like we got a demo tape and don’t nobody wanna hear it. But it’s like this, the South got somethin’ to say. That’s all I got to say.”
“I think I made a mistake and I shouldn’t have,” he continued. “Usually, I bow out of the whole five-mic thing. The five mics was so strong that we let the journalists take care of that. The Source was business over here and the journalists over here. We would let the journalists take care of that; the writers, the photographers. It was a group of them and they would sit in a room and the labels would send the albums and they would rate them. It was one of the main things, the five mic system. One time, me and one of them got into a debate about OutKast because I didn’t understand at that time that music. And I was wrong.”
Check out the clip from the GAUDS podcast below.
But Benzino didn’t just limit his no-holds-barred approach to his past bad behavior on now-defunct awards shows.
Earlier in the episode, he spilled the beans on how he tried to prevent his daughter, Coi Leray, from smoking weed.
Benzino explained that when his daughter wanted to smoke some weed one time, he had to make a judgment call in teaching her a lesson.
“She’s about 15, 16, essentially,” he begins the clip. “And she’s smoking — I’m like, damn, I don’t want her to smoke. So it’s like, man, I don’t wanna be the bad guy.”
Daniels’s co-host, Tamira Smith, jumped in with a question of her own. “What age did you start smokin’?” she asks.
“Thirteen,” Benzino replies, before Daniels interjects with: “But you want your kids to be better than you!”
“You’re right,” the former Source editor says. “It’s called necessary hypocrisy.”
Nobody cares about TrannyBangzino and his opinion on hip hop.
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the least.
how u dont understand southernplayalistic…. is 10 mics lol and u in the genre and run he biggest mag at the time clown
Slow down out of towner. It took east coast niggas a little while to figure out and understand OutKast as some of the country content didn’t really represent our lifestyle in a way we were used to. I hate Benzino as much as everyone else, but that is really the point he is trying to drive home here, and I can 100 percent relate to this opinion. I personally didn’t get on board until ATLiens.
I get it but damn NY was just closed off to the south. Glad all that changed even though there’s definitely some bullshit coming from south of the mason Dixon line but that’s all areas. We all talk the same shit just present it differently.
But the rest of us got your lifestyle when none of us know shit about subways or living in the five boroughs. That’s that wack shit about NYC people don’t like. That closed minded shit that you hide behind well, we didn’t know any better because we couldn’t relate. How in the fuck you think the rest of us could relate to bodegas and shit? We fucked with it because it’s supposed to be the music over all the other goofy shit.
It is what it is. We a tough crowd. You’ll be aight tho.
Of all the terrible stories to tell about yourself. It’s insane how he injects himself into things that nobody else wants to be involved in or have had done.
No neck Benzino STFU
No neck Benzino STFU
This like Fredro Star saying Michael Jordan had a bald head because of onyx
Fast forward 30 years, and now he’s in Atlanta Red Roof Inns with his boy getting the front desk calling for him to check out. What a fall. His daughter is beautiful though. So he did help make her.
I let Benzino ejaculate in my ass