Peter Pawger
Spider-Member
Benzino Had alterior motives... He didn't really care about racism that fakkit is half cac
You gotta be incredibly stupid to get me attacking Benzino mixed up with me defending Eminem.
I see misguided people like you praising Benzino as some kind of hip-hop champion, so I'm focusing on that.
Since you have trouble reading, let me say this again. Benzino should've handed the tape off to someone else. Meaning, someone who didn't have an ulterior motive
"ah well, Em ain't really that bad, we should work together!".
It don't matter if it was 3-4 years later, or 10 years later, he back peddled like a motherfukker.
Again, he should've handed the tape off to literally anyone else, who would actually be taken seriously.
And if you're actually still catching feelings from some shyt I said to you on SOHH only God knows how long ago, you need to examine your priorities in life. Because honestly I don't even remember you from SOHH, nor any kind of argument we got into, least of all about Eminem, a rapper several people can vouch that I never really talk about, or even like.
Here's why the Benzino shyt was never taken seriously...
BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T IDIOTS KNEW THAT THIS WAS ALL A PERSONAL AGENDA AND PUBLICITY STUNT.
Benzino, owner of a magazine that had fallen out with an artist, turned this magazine as a vehicle to push this agenda. The same magazine that was the first national publication to sing that artist's praises before he was even signed. The same magazine that told everyone he was dope by quoting his lyrics and running articles on him. The same magazine that gave his albums good ratings and considered him to be one of the best of his era.
Suddenly, and in a matter of months after they ran a cover story on this artist, he becomes the poisonous, cancerous sore that is damaging and killing hip-hop?
You can see the hypocrisy in the agenda, and then you add that to an aging rapper who had gotten like 20 record deals and never made more than 2 semi-hit records, who JUST HAPPENED to have an album coming out... who all at once was promoting his rivalry with Eminem and this album... while Eminm is arguably at the peak of his own popularity... the shyt had "marketing ploy" written all over it.
I think if it had come from a different source, no pun intended, it would've been taken more seriously. But to see it coming from someone who'd bigged him up for 4 years straight until that point... you knew it had nothing to do with their "he's ruining hip-hop" message.
benzino didnt say anything that people on the streets or the internet werent already saying. and i honestly cant remember any lines from benzino's disses aside from the "if you were black, you'd be cannibus" line which was TRUE.
i think the fact that people were more worried about the messenger and also the fact that they didnt like benzino as a rapper, is why the overall message got lost. when you bring this up to younger heads or downright silly individuals, the 1st thing they say is that "benzino cant rap". nevermind the fact that most of his statements were off-wax.
this is false.
MMLP got 3 1/2 mics(which is what it was worth at the time) and he won 2 source awards that summer, includling lyricist of the year; which he didnt deserve considering that he didnt even drop an album within the deadline. the source didnt do eminem dirty leading up to the benzino beef at all.
what is benzino doing now? he and dave mayes own the biggest rap magazine in the world right now. hip-hop weekly came out and pretty much instantly surpassed the source, xxl, etc.
nobody is ignoring anything. youre not making any points whatsoever. benzino never said that eminem was wack.
i think some of you need to go back, do some research, and actually read what was being said so that you can get an understanding of what was going on.
Breh, don't waste your time. The Booth is 98% white and these dudes are going to ride for their own. Let Nas do what Em did at the MTV awards with a man putting his ass in his face and it'd still be what he's known for to this day.instead of focusing on the message, we focus on shooting the messenger. so what if you dont like dude. who cares?
and the end result, yall are stuck watching BET crown eminem as the hottest rapper of the decade. a station that didnt even mess with his music like that. and all types of other f*ckery because you dont like benzino's raps, as if thats even his day job to begin with.
the booth isnt 98% white.
the booth isnt 98% white.
Here's why the Benzino shyt was never taken seriously...
BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T IDIOTS KNEW THAT THIS WAS ALL A PERSONAL AGENDA AND PUBLICITY STUNT.
Benzino, owner of a magazine that had fallen out with an artist, turned this magazine as a vehicle to push this agenda. The same magazine that was the first national publication to sing that artist's praises before he was even signed. The same magazine that told everyone he was dope by quoting his lyrics and running articles on him. The same magazine that gave his albums good ratings and considered him to be one of the best of his era.
Suddenly, and in a matter of months after they ran a cover story on this artist, he becomes the poisonous, cancerous sore that is damaging and killing hip-hop?
You can see the hypocrisy in the agenda, and then you add that to an aging rapper who had gotten like 20 record deals and never made more than 2 semi-hit records, who JUST HAPPENED to have an album coming out... who all at once was promoting his rivalry with Eminem and this album... while Eminm is arguably at the peak of his own popularity... the shyt had "marketing ploy" written all over it.
I think if it had come from a different source, no pun intended, it would've been taken more seriously. But to see it coming from someone who'd bigged him up for 4 years straight until that point... you knew it had nothing to do with their "he's ruining hip-hop" message.