The beef between Eminem and former Source publisher Benzino has been well documented over the years.
Their feud reached a boiling point in the early 2000s when Benzino got his hands on some tapes of Eminem using racist and derogatory language toward Black women. The Source ultimately leaked them to the public, tarnishing Slim Shady’s reputation in the process.
During a recent interview with VladTV, Benzino explained how he wound up acquiring the tapes and revealed one of the “three white kids” who sold him the tapes committed suicide.
“I’m in Puerto Rico while the whole beef’s goin’ on, whatever,” he explains in the clip. “We actually went and did our homework on Em. We was like, 20/20 investigations and shit. We really kinda wanted to see where he was from originally and really do his homework on who Marshall Mathers really is. So, we found out where he lived, where he grew up.”
Benzino learned the sellers were at The Source‘s office and decided to go through with the sale as soon as he landed in New York City.
“They call it the ‘racist Rap hour tapes’,” he said. “I jumped on the next thing smokin’, met with the guys and I was like, ‘Man, where’s the tapes at? How much y’all want for it?'”
Benzino said they’d already tried to sell the tapes to Irv Gotti for $50,000 but were denied. Benzino doled out $15,000 for the tapes and the rest is history. He claims he would have purchased them even if he wasn’t beefing with Eminem at the time.
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Eminem addressed the controversy in 2003 and said it was “something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager. I’d just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today.”
here we go again vlad shitty ass conjuring up another loser talking about ‘that one time I …’ / look how he got Jamar and Boosie all fucked up and looking stupid. vlad can’t let go because Eminem won’t even acknowledge a hump like this.
Why does it matter that the kid commit suicide? It’s a sad situation but how is that relevant to what happened? It isn’t. Benzinos goofy ass is trying to kick up dust. You know what’s funny? Look at his daughter, coi leray or whatever the fuck her name is. She’s goofy as hell. I wonder where she got it from? Lol
People are too fucking sensitive. People call that Eminem song “racist” ok fine. But doesnt that make all the Vanilla Ice comparisons about white rappers equally racist ? Oh I get it, it only works one way. But the difference is, every white rapper who got compared to vanilla ice just laughed it off and be like whatever. I never once seen no white guy think its cool or trendy to play the role of a victim.
You think calling Black women the “B” word and gold diggers, they are “too sensitive” if they think that is racist? It is racism. When he talked trash about Kim, he didn’t say ALL White women are drugged out whores like he said she was, now did he?
*farts*
the pure blonde hair the blue eyes makes you wonder.
“Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself If they were brown, Shady’d lose, Shady sits on the shelf”
The funny thing is, Benzino, vlad, and a few other people who go on his “show”… are only ever slightly popping when Eminem’s name is leaving their mouths. Vlad knows hating on Em will get views and money, so he has a hard on for that.. but he can only ever get these washed up human beings who have no talent and who’s biggest success is being mentioned in the same light as Eminem, so they ride that wave of failure for the rest of time. And Em just sits back comfortably laughing at them while steadily writing and dropping records and features, making more money and gaining more respect than they’ll ever have, all while living in their heads rent free.
“Meanwhile my attention’s pulled in another direction Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk Has an erection for me and thinks that I’ll be his resurrection”
Right, when The Source suddenly decided they were all about respecting black women but also had Sugar Free on their front cover who made his butter pimping women and selling their bodies. But the words of a teenager mean more than the actions of an adult, right?
Pureeminem stans in the comments defending him. You can tell alot of the people commenting on here are white Lol
@ Feminem / go get fucked bro, it’ll help
Nice news article. This isn’t clickbaity and disgusting at all lol
All he said in the song was that he didnt like black girls after his black girl dumped him he never used the n word
He called them the “B” word and gold diggers, when we know White women are the gold diggers. Look at all the trailer park trash that marry athletes. And before you say it is not true, tell me why wealthy famous White women aren’t marrying the athletes. Just White women with no other way out of the trailer park.