Eminem reignited his multi-decade beef with Benzino earlier this year with the release of “Doomsday 2” via Lyrical Lemonade, and he’s now released a star-studded music video for it.
On Wednesday (March 13), the Detroit MC dropped a color-coded visual for the track to match the brand’s yellow theme. Furthermore, the knockout tune gets an extra boost thanks to countless cameos.
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Directed and edited by Cole Bennett, the clip features appearances from Denzel Curry, Teezo Touchdown, BabyTron, JID, Swae Lee and Cordae, all of whom are featured on Lyrical Lemonade’s All Is Yellow album released in January. Additionally, Big Sean also shows up briefly in a cut.
Check out the video for “Doomsday 2” below:
Over a sample of his classic hit “Role Model,” the Detroit MC raps: “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?”
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The “I got a riddle” construction comes from a much earlier Eminem diss of Benzino titled “Armageddon” from the 2004 mixtape, Invasion Part III: Countdown to Armageddon.
Benzino soon hit back with two separate diss songs, “Vulturius” and “Rap Elvis.” Then soon after, he broke down while discussing the feud during a Drink Champs interview, but then went back to his old ways and called Em “overrated” just days later.
Most recently, he criticized Em’s production work on the posthumous 2Pac album, Loyal to the Game, which placed Slim Shady beats under the late rapper’s vocals.
“I think the shit that he did with ‘Pac was horrible,” Zino said in an interview with The Art of Dialogue. “I think that was a disgrace.”
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The formerco-owner of The Source continued: “I think he should have never had ‘Pac’s lyrics to do it. I understand at the time, Afeni [Shakur], maybe it was a money thing. He probably paid for that, because that there was the closest that he would be to ‘Pac.
“But that was another insult on our culture and community, what he did with that album. That was trash … He should have never got the okay to play with ‘Pac’s voice like that, and his legacy.”
