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and she's unattractive. and gay. she's essentially the most disturbed women currently going....
^what does that matter? its been the highest selling hip-hop mag for years now.
Again.....
Dude...either you're the best troll in Hip-Hop Messageboard history, or you're totally clueless and up your own ass.
Benzino was killed by the media and the fickle 'mainstream' buying public, 10 years earlier he would have had a statue...true story
benzino definitely had his own agenda... and his relationship with the true owner of the source Dave Mays was always suspect anyway....(can somebody speak on their relationship?)
but at the same time the points Benzino made were on point...period...cosigning notsoft and wacky d
i knew this thread would smoke sunzoo's a$$ out.
Sunzoo is heeeeerree!!!
The thing that negates any of Benzino's points is that for the four years leading up to that sudden 'revelation' he had, he and his magazine had done nothing but big up everything Em had something to do with. It just reeked of hypocrisy... you're so concerned with Eminem 'damaging hip-hop', but six months earlier, y'all had him in a dead heat with Jay-Z for best MC of the present era (see issue no. 150)? It was a bullshyt angle and so CLEARLY a publicity move. This is why some of us are saying that literally ANYBODY but the Source woulda been a more reliable voice in the matter.
Back when The Source used to shyt on Vanilla Ice in the "good old days", it was cause they felt he was truly a fraud and a joke and an insult to the better artists who were being denied exposure. And guess what? All that shyt was true. And at the same time, that was the Source's stance almost immediately. Not after they spent years tellin' their readers how great he was.
Benzino/Dave Mays' relationship, as I've seen it described by one of the founding writers/music editors Reginald C. Dennis... is that two whiteboys started this mag in Boston. One (Jon Shecter) was a hip-hop fan who was still conscious of the fact that he was a white guy from the suburbs. The other one (Mays) was almost ashamed of it and would associate himself with anything/one opposite of that to prove how "down" he was. This led to him getting down with a crew from Boston known as the RSO, led by a dude named Ray who took advantage of him and eventually took his magazine over. Ray (with Mays as a loyal lackey) alienated the writing team, drove all the founding members out, and used it as a vehicle for his own means. Not saying that's gospel truth, but when you look at how shyt panned out...