Cassidy has confirmed that he did not ghostwrite Benzino’s diss tracks towards Eminem, “Rap Elvis” and “Vulturius.”
In a snippet of a new song he posted on Instagram on Monday (March 25), the Philadelphia rap veteran addressed the rumors that he was the pen behind the punchlines.
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“I ain’t ghostwrite Benzino diss, that’s bogus,” he raps, before bragging: “In the past I ghostwrote for the writer that ghostwrote it.”
Listen below.
Benzino had previously denied that he had used a ghostwriter for “Rap Elvis” and “Vulturius” following online speculation.
“I don’t wanna hear that ghostwriter shit. This is Hip Hop, bro. I don’t wanna hear that ghostwriter shit,” he said on Instagram Live last month. “Shut the fuck up, bro. You mad because I’m spitting. I wrote that shit.”
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His comments came after a social media user suggested that Cassidy secretly wrote Benzino’s diss songs due to the similarities in their rhyme style.
“Anyone with a good rap ear can hear the Same flow patterns, internal rhyme style & his flips on the same word is SOOO Cassidy,” the fan wrote on X. “Cass either ghostwrote or Benzino just bit his whole style. Eminem Won.”
Benzino also claimed during the livestream that he “cooked” the real Slim Shady with his disses.
“I ate his shit up. I cooked him,” he said. “Back in the day, he cooked me. But what you stans is not gonna do, what you teens is not gonna try to do is come here and be like, I didn’t affect him. Stop it. Because that shows that y’all ain’t real Hip Hop fans. That shows that y’all are biased and probably halfway racist.
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“If it’s dope shit, give it up. Just like my people give it up to him. Stop being racist, white people. If it’s dope and I rip then say it. A lot of you guys already are. Salute to the stans that are in my DM saying, ‘Listen Zino, I’m an Em fan but that song is dope.’”
The 20-plus-year feud between Eminem and Benzino reignited earlier this year after Em dropped “Doomsday Pt. 2” which almost exclusively dissed the former Source magazine publisher.
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Over a sample of his own classic hit “Role Model,” he rapped: “Now I got a riddle, one condition, you mustn’t laugh/ What is the opposite of Benzino? A giraffe/ ‘Go at his neck,’ how the fuck is that?/ How can I go at somethin’ he doesn’t have?
“Arm so short he can’t even touch his hands/ When they’re up above his head doin’ jumpin’ jacks/ Sorry, I don’t mean to upset you, Ben/ When I talk about all the debt you in/ I hear that you been creepin’ on the low/ In them cheap hotels, that they catch you in.”
