Benzino talks about Eminem on Podcast with Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson keeps his podcast coming and drops off a new podcast with hip hop media executive Benzino. Both Mike and Benzino are good friends and while on the podcast session, both talk about the music industry, Mike’s hilarious post-match incidents, and Mike Tyson also recall the famous Eminem and Benzino beef. On their feud, Mike says, “I used to watch you on the source awards….I used to watchin you fightin with F**kin Eminem, Fighting with the F**kin…”.
Benzino & Em beef dates back to the early 2000s. The feud reached a climax when Benzino released “Pull Your Skirt Up,” calling Eminem the “2003 Vanilla Ice” and claiming he birthed Em’s career after featuring him in The Source’s Unsigned Hype column in 1998. Eminem quickly responded with one of the best diss records of all time, “Nail in the Coffin,” in which he eviscerated Benzino on a variety of issues, including his age, his pseudo gangsta persona, and shady business practices.
Em reacts to various diss tracks, including Benzino’s “Pull Your Skirt Up,” which was released one and a half months prior. Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s manager and co-president of Shady Records, tried to placate Benzino via phone call prior to the release of diss recordings from both camps. On “Pull Your Skirt Up,” Benzino mentioned the incident: “Em claims that such a phone call ever happened.” Benzino, on the other hand, released “Die Another Day” two weeks later. He plays a recording of Paul Rosenberg’s call at the start of the song, proving that Em was lying.
The feud worsened when Benzino smeared Eminem in his own magazine and released “Die Another Day,” in which the Boston rapper threatened Eminem’s daughter Hailie.
Watch: Benzino Says Eminem is “Boring & Corny in Real Life”
Benzino has received a lot of reaction from Eminem fans after declaring that “nobody in my hood” listens to him, according to XXL, and has responded by going after them. The commotion is still going on after a fan begged Zino to call Shady a “terrible excuse for a father and human being” to his face. Benzino was ready to respond with a clap of his own.
Benzino provided a link to Em’s early ’90s tune “Foolish Pride,” where Em declared “don’t date a Black girl” and rapped that Black women “are dumb,” as part of his continuous campaign to call out Em fans, which included many additional tweets (viewable here). He apologised for the song after Zino initially revealed it at a press conference in 2003.
Eminem also got down with Mike Tyson to talk about a variety of issues, including their love for hip-hop and Eminem’s new album Music to Be Murdered By.
Em then moved on to talking about his new “Godzilla” video, which had cameos from Dr. Dre, Mr. Porter, and Tyson. The video, directed by Cole Bennett, shows Tyson s**ker punching Em in the face by accident, resulting in the rapper’s hospitalisation. Em was saved by the fact that the punch was not genuine, and he survived to see another day.
In an interview, Zino stated that he regrets not going hard at Eminem. “Do I regret beefing with Eminem? Hell no,” says Benzino. “We gonna be dead a lot longer than us when we was in wherever we was on this earth and it’s about the name you leave, the legacy you leave. When we went at Eminem it was not a go at him personally, It was not to go with white people. It was who I was and what I stood for. What I believed. And the position I was in.”
“Eminem thing started as me saying a couple of words on a mixtape that was buried like a number 19 out of 20 songs. Somehow he heard it and really got crazy. Once that happened, he went on Hot 97 and said a whole bunch of sh*t. That was a major platform back then. I did not appreciate that because I’m still street ni**a and I know he is not. Now, he’s on a platform and he got other people talk sh*t about me and now I’m like ‘yo this never happened before.’ I was not used to that. That’s why I flexed The Source power in there. What man is not gonna flex the power he got in any situation. I was just gonna do what everybody else is going to do.”
He continued, “I don’t live with regrets because… I believed that hip-hop was given to us to help out the melanated people and now all because a white man comes in and he’s supposed to get caught blanc with special treatment. 500 years from now, people are going to looking at us, they’ll look at history and say ‘damn, this hip-hop artists doing great back then’ and then they are gonna see ‘who is most streamed and most sold’ and his face [Eminem] is gonna pop. That bothers me because its out culture. Its ours. It’s black people’s culture. What should somebody else get the credit to be the face of it.”
