In a recently published interview with VladTV, rapper and media executive Benzino explained the nature of his long-running dispute with Eminem and Dr. Dre, saying “it wasn’t a personal thing” as well as explaining the first time that he saw the Detroit rapper in person.
“One time I was in L.A., and I don’t know if he remembers this, but I remember I was by Jerry’s Deli, I think that was the first time I’d ever seen [Eminem] and I looked at him,” he said, “and I was like, ‘man, he’s a lot taller than I thought he was.’ That was really it.”
Despite their widely publicized beef, in hindsight, Benzino did acknowledge Eminem and Dr. Dre’s commercial success alongside an admission of his affinity for Dre’s music. “He was being produced by arguably the greatest producer of Hip Hop in our time,” he said, “I recognize that, I mean, Dr. Dre is my hero, you know what I’m saying. I mean, The Chronic, [Snoop Dogg], Dogg Pound, I mean everything, I was turned out by N.W.A. N.W.A. is top five dead or alive to me.”
Benzino’s controversial feud with both Eminem and Dr. Dre as well as their shared label, Interscope, largely stemmed from the monthly Hip Hop publication The Source’s evaluation of Eminem’s sophomore album, The Marshall Mathers LP, in 2000. By that time, Benzino had since joined the publication as a co-owner several years prior. Notably, Benzino was chastised for previous editorial missteps when he granted his own group, Made Men, a coveted four out of five ‘mics’ rating in 1998. The magazine granted The Marshall Mathers LP the relatively low rating of two ‘mics’ two years later despite its critical acclaim elsewhere. The beef quickly escalated with Benzino’s accusation of Eminem being racist and his releasing a string of diss tracks against the rapper. In February of 2003, with Ja Rule on the cover, Benzino appeared inside The Source in a picture holding Eminem’s decapitated head. Following that issue, Eminem, Dr. Dre, and Aftermath boycotted the publication and eventually Interscope removed all advertising from the magazine.
“It wasn’t a personal thing about these guys and what they accomplished,” Benzino said in the recent VladTV interview, “I was just looking at the bigger picture and I don’t think they understood that. It was 50 [Cent] I was trying to get on a song when all of this was going on, me and 50 had a pretty good relationship, I had met him through Tone and Poke which Steve Stout had introduced me to—the Trackmasters—and then I remember when he had that situation with Ja [Rule] at the Hit Factory, he ran down to my session when I was with the Made Men at Sony and he had shown me his stab [wound], I called him a car service and got him up out of there. I hadn’t known Ja, it’s crazy because now me and Ja, like that’s my brother. Like, our kids, he’s the godfather of my kids and I’m the godfather of his kids, we’re family. My daughter just went to the Rihanna concert with [Ja Rule’s daughter] Brittany the other day. My son stays weekends til this day, they live in Jersey.
Raymond “Benzino” Scott first gained attention as a member of the Boston-based Hip Hop group The Almighty RSO beginning in the late 1980s. The group released an EP in 1992 preceding their long playing debut, Doomsday: Forever RSO, in 1996. The group also experienced a short-lived affiliation with Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit and was later managed by the management company of the same name. Later, in 1998, Benzino and another member of the group formed a new group called Made Men and released an album titled Classic Limited Edition.
Benzino is currently a recurring character on VH1’s reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.”
Related: Benzino Threatens To Quit “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” Following Stevie J Beef
Man fuck Feminem. His bitch ass only go at female pop singers and Moby now. What happened to that Slim Shady who used to diss everybody. White boy didnt say shit when Ross was goin at his ass. Feminem went pop and sold his bitch ass out. And yet his cocksuckers on this site still claim he the goat. Jay the G.o.a.t Feminem nuttin more then a pop act who been afraid to go at anyone takin shots. White boy backed down from Ross and dont say shit when Wayne went at him.
Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rick ross going at his ass? LOL
why would a rap god waste his time responding to a peasant trying to make a come up off dissing bigger artists than him!
So why did Ross back down to 50 cent? 50 had his baby moms and kids at Floyd’s crib in vegas doing vlogs!
He put out a tape of Ross other hooker baby momma getting dicked down.
Beat down Gunplay, took his MMG chain and put it in a music video with Jeezy!!!
Ross aint do shit and you’re talking about Em backing down when Ross called him a honky one time? LOLOLOL
Didn’t Officer Ricky cancel half his tour cause of threats from the GD’s??? Thats what you call BACKING DOWN
shut up you fake rick ross
I think Eminem took it personal, cause he did you something awful on wax.
Benzino lost this fight and he knows it. Source went to crap, that album is considered a classic, and eminem murdered you on a song. r.i.p.
How does this clown even have a career in hiphop or rap? He never had no hits n sold no albums. Nobody was ever checkin for a new benzino album when I was growin up and they aint checkin now. He musta just blown the right Hebrew in the music industry to get in the door
man fuck all yall
say it again
tell it wasn’t personal when ja mentioned hailey
one of my favorite beefs
invasion mixtapes were fire
eminem – the sauce
eminem – nail in the coffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7H5TeJ9oc
one sided beed
This guy doesn’t make any sense…worthless interview about a guy that no one cares about…
http://www.eminemalbum2014.com
off topic but any one remember the slim shady show
if not google it
i got that on dvd crazy shit
i remember that ‘ayo whats crackin bitch’ shit was dope
benzino still in tears
I hated Benzino back then but actually he was right. Eminem did kill rap music and hip-hop just like Elvis. Name one good rapper who has debuted since Eminem signed 50 cent. There isn’t one.
you cant be 4 real
nigga shut up
I hope your team of fuckboys didn’t have anything to do with Paul C. Freddie Foxxx should have pulled the trigger instead of recording a song.
Does anyone even still care about this moment in time?!?! I dont even call it a “battle”. It was over before it even started. It was ridiculous, if you ask me. SMH
co-sign
this faggot is so damn desperate for attention he wont get. MMLP2 in one more week mothafuckas know what it is!!! 3x plat hopefully
recovery is already 4x platinum while relapse is 5x platinum, i think MMLP2 can do better
lmfao dude
im in your top 10 people
i dont even know 1 benzino song to be honest
awww come on son you don’t remember ROCK THE PARTY? lmfao
blah blah blah blah blah careers over. all he had to do was be fair to eminem and dre with his stupid magazine.
Yup mine wasn’t personal with Em, 50 or Dre either 🙂
Me n Cass is best friends!!!!!!!
That’s what I been telling ya about Jeezy we’re friends
Shout out to the Snowman
What up Dre it wasnt taht serious
Biggie my boy
Damn right Pac!
Everyone learn from this dumb fucking idiot! He thought he could go against the greatest rapper and lost terribly and also destroyed all credibility when it comes to the source magazine. Up and coming artists do not be like this dumb idiot ever! Learn from his stupid mistakes alo with Dave mays faggot ass!
Greatest rapper, funny…..
Dude he wasnt an upcoming rapper dude is just a RACIST plain simple
Why does benzino still get any type of publicity is beyond me, he ahd enough when he was promoting himself through the source and eminem is not tall, so benzino must be a midget
because the MEDIA wants shit to report hoping for a Part 2 or somehting
^^Agreed. Such a fucked up world that we live in…
Benzino is like 5′ 2″
“is it me or does he look like a banana with braids and clothes on?”
“Beat down Gunplay, took his MMG chain and put it in a music video with Jeezy!!!”
Only problem is 50 didn’t actually beat Gunplay down. His hired help did, and the chain has since been replaced. In the archives of crime, you won’t find this near the top.
he was right in the middle of it fool. and that wasnt hired help, it was his mike knox, tony yayo and kidd kidd
TRUE STORI:
*Drake hosting The Maury Show*
Drake: Teh resultz are in, itz yourz.
Father: FUK!
Drake: Dis shit belong tu nobody, itz yourz
Father: FUK!
Drake: Itz yourz, itz yourz, dats fur sure
Father: Shut teh fuk up Druke
Drake: Own et
Comment if you like teh Maury sho.
rap beefs are stupid nowadays, people just trying to cash in on other artists.
And 50 didnt beat anyone down, he just got the chain made.
got the chain made? LOL no! even gunplay said he lost thats hit
he got that shit from a jeweler to not implicate himself in a felony assault
50 SHOULDVE GOT ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF PROPERTY OF GUNPLAYS CHAIN, BUT HE RUNS WITH THE FEDS COZ HE’S A SNITCH!!!!!!!
G UNOT!
u mean like Games old manager Jimmy the rat federal informant henchman? LOL stop snitching tho
50 IS A SNITCH! WHY DIDNT HE GET CHARGED WITH THEFT OF PROPERTY? COZ HE WORKS WITH DA FEDS!!!!!!!!!!!
because gunplay is a semi real nigga and he aint press no charges….
same reason he aint go to jail when he ran up on homie witht he gun on video camera… no witness, no case
i get it i get it i get it i get it your hustle dont go un noticed baby im with im with it
Benzino doesn’t really address anything, he’s trying to talk like a politician, generally and in an after-the-fact type of fashion, trying to redirect the negativity in no particular way. He doesn’t even admit he was wrong or immature or instigated anything, he was just “looking at the bigger picture”. Wtf does that mean?? Dude still hasn’t grown up
TRUE STORY
Kanye: I fuk yur hmpton spouse
Drake: I get it
Kanye: kum in hrr hmpton mwth
Drake: I get it I get it
Kanye: Im in it Im in it
Drake: don’t think about it too much
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Thats not the real Rik Rozz, the real one always says “Comment if you liked” at the end.
Why did people hate Relapse? Read this article.
http://www.eminemalbum2014.com/haterelapse.htm
Just read it, article is biased as hell. Relapse is technically very very impressive, the whole article assumes that The Eminem Show was everyone’s favourite, despite MMLP being Marshall’s best selling album.
I think I’m the only one whose favourite is still SSLP…
before I looked at the draft 4 $9462, I be certain that…my… brother had been actualy receiving money in their spare time on their apple laptop.. there aunt had bean doing this less than 10 months and resantly cleared the loans on there apartment and bourt themselves a Land Rover Defender. my explanation… http://smal.ly/8wUo2
Benzino?
More like Ben C-Note
Got a hundred dollar bill
And a denim peat coat
Ya I been a freak tho
And I’m a baller still
Got a moonraker laser
I’m hard to kill
Like Jason Bourne
In a hotel room
Watching asian porn
Ja Rule/Benzqueeno = Irrelevant
Eminem/Dre = G.O.A.T
End of story.
TRUE STORY
Kanye: I fuk yur hmpton spouse
Drake: I get it
Kanye: kum in hrr hmpton mwth
Drake: I get it I get it
Kanye: Im in it Im in it
Drake: don’t think about it too much
Comment if you lkd teh stry
JayZ: FuckwithmeyouknowIgotit
TRUE STORY: ur a sad lonely faggot, about as funny as slavery.
Lol Benzino is 5’3 in real life. Dude is nearly a midget …
RObin Thicke is the new marvin gayes
“I was turned out by N.W.A.”
LMAO I BET YOU WAS
I’m always gonna think Benzino is a punk bitch. I only know of him because of Em. And Em murked the shit out of him
Dre and Eminem made this faggot famous… Fuck Benzino …
Apart from this cock-molesting faggot the biggest fuck-boys in rap are
Kanye
Wale
Tyga
Big Sean
Lil Wayne
You could have just said Drake
Drake is the queen of pop
listen to that joint g unit killaz benzno feat murda inc
marshall is a paranoid freak em u claim ur mother a crack head kim is a known slut wat haily gonna be when she grows up??
ITS MURDA! ITS MURDA! I N C BABY
i saw on the news recently that hailey was crowned homecoming queen of her school
Yea and after that line Em, 50 and Busta totally destroyed Murda inc, plus they aint even murder inc no more your stuck in the old days fuckin joke.
a recurring character on love and hip hop
Benzino lost and can’t bring himself to terms with it, still lying to himself and anyone who will listen – wasn’t personal YET he had a decapitated head of Em in his magazine GTFOH Royce clowned the ish out you, Edo G the boss of Boston…
How are you going to say it’s not personal when you hold up a decapitated head of eminem? It doesn’t really get much more personal.
fuck him. Garbage nigga
He was always pathetic, this loser turned his whole career into an anti Eminem propaganda campaign! He tanked his magazine and rep over it.
that’s right hes a character not a ” real person”
who gives a fuck about this character
Best moment was when Bumpy was on the same tour bus as this fag, heard him talkin shit about how hard he was and smacked him in the face Haaaaaahaaaaa
i heard bumpy had that crook Bob Perry from Soul Temple Music jumpin out the window when he came looking for his money
I think it was more like he put a gun in his mouth, Lol Bumpy is a LEGEND.
Nail In The Coffin’ i dont need to say more.
I don’t wanna be like this/ ireally dont wanna hurt no feelings, but im only being real when i say/nobody wants to hear their grandfather rap, nope/ an old man having an heart attack/ i dont wanna be responsable for that/ so put the mic down and walk away/ you can still have a little bit of dignity. – And thats just the chorus… that hole song made you look like a joke buster!!
…what you know about being bullied half your life, oh you should know what thats like, you’re half white.
Dude, if it weren’t because of Eminem, a lot!!! of people wouln’d know who tha fuck you is suckaa
i still dont know who he is to be honest. i know he used to run the source or something???
Big Weenie
He is a retard and will never be remembered except as sum dum ass that got burnt by em the story will be in the future like ” whos benzino” “OH hes sum whack raper that em burnt on a few songs” and thats if hes lucky