Benzino explains the reason behind his beef with Eminem.
Benzino once again touches his beef with Eminem as he made an appearance on the latest episode of Tony The Closer. During the long conversation, Zino was asked about his infamous feud with Eminem, and if he regrets going at the Detroit rapper.
“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.”
“They want to give us Eminem and he’s the greatest rapper, and he is the most… No!!! It’s not fair, man. My thing is.. The only regret I have is not going harder. We are two different kind of rappers, lyrically. I don’t rap about what he raps about. I’m not into the rap like that. I didn’t grow up listening to rap like that. I could relate to what was going on in my hood. You don’t have to be super lyrical. I like lyrical people too. Nas, Jay, they could put words together good. But “kakakaka” I wasn’t not into that rap type. No disrespect. When he was disrespecting me, he was disrespecting my street credit. And my street credit was A1 and still is. I got it in, I gave it to people and I took it.” “When you look at Eminem and his fans, they are the most craziest disrespectful fans that we have in the culture,” he added.
Benzino’s continued criticism of Eminem serves as a superfluous affirmation that he views the rapper as a representation of the establishment, industry impact, and racial discrimination. These are the associations that come to his mind when he thinks of Marshall, regardless of his actions. Until he overcomes his delusions, Benzino will never be able to move on.
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