Benzino has again called Eminem “racist” and shared a montage of the legendary rapper allegedly using the N-word.
Posting on Instagram on Thursday (March 14), the former editor of The Source magazine said: “Throughout history you always had some black people who will constantly make excuses for racist white people. There will always be someone of color who thinks this is ok and it’s sad.”
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Alongside the caption was a video reel of live performances and old records of Eminem allegedly using the racial slur — though it should be noted that some of the clips do not actually show him saying the N-word.
Eminem has yet to respond to the accusations.
Benzino, during his tenure at The Source, accused Eminem of being racist in 2003 when he and magazine founder Dave Mays obtained an early tape of the rapper’s from the early ’90s.
One track heard him allegedly using the N-word: “All the girls I like to bone have big butts/ No they don’t, ’cause I don’t like that n-gga shit/ I’m just here to make a bigger hit.”
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Another freestyle, said to be recorded in 1988, included shots at an ex-girlfriend who was Black: “Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/ But black girls only want your money ’cause they dumb chicks.”
Eminem acknowledged that he made the latter song and apologized, admitting he was an “angry” and stupid” teenager.
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“Ray Benzino, Dave Mays and The Source have had a vendetta against me, Shady Records and our artists for a long time,” he said. “The tape they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager.
“I’d just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today.”
Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg, added that neither he nor Eminem had heard of the other track that included the N-word.
Em later addressed the controversy on his 2004 track “Yellow Brick Road.”
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Eminem and Benzino’s long-standing feud recently reignited after the Detroit MC dropped “Doomsday Pt. 2” which featured numerous shots at the reality TV personality.
Benzino has since fired back with two diss tracks — “Vulturius” and “Rap Elvis” — and made numerous negative comments about him.
The beef took a bizarre turn last month when Benzino appeared on Drink Champs and began crying when discussing their beef.
“I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate him. I don’t hate white people tired of this shit, man. It’s just too much. I don’t want to be the bad guy,” he said while emotional and intoxicated.
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“Eminem ain’t no bad person. He belongs in Hip Hop. It’s a big racist problem in America right now and Eminem could probably stop half of it.”
Since that podcast appearance, however, Benzino has gone back to dissing Eminem.
