Benzino has assured fans that he fully intends on offering a timely response to Eminem‘s latest provocation, and he’s enlisted some support.
On Saturday (January 27), the former publisher of The Source took to Instagram, vowing to deliver a response to Em’s scathing “Doomsday Pt. 2” diss, within the next 24 hours.
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“NO JUMPER INTERVIEW DROPS AT 6 @adam22 RESPONSE TO DOOMSDAY IN 24 HOURS. [grin emoji]” he wrote alongside a video clip featuring an iconic scene from The Godfather: Part lll.
“I’m a businessman, first and foremost. I want no further conflict,” Al Pacino says in the movie snippet.
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The odd response didn’t go over well with fans who accused Benzino of not having the chops to deliver on his promise. “It’s been a full 24 hours. Your [ghost, writer emoji] must be still be in the lab. For hiphop sake don’t release Melle Mel response,” wrote one user.
“LMFAO im about to peep this I know his ass about to be salty af in that interview [laughing emoji],” a second comment reads.
Earlier this week, Eminem reignited his feud with Zino — a beef that originated in the mid ’00s — by taking a jab at his financial woes and physical stature.
Over a sample of Em’s classic hit “Role Model,” he raps: “Now I got a riddle, one condition, you mustn’t laugh/ What is the opposite of Benzino? A giraffe/ ‘Go at his neck,’ how the fuck is that?/ How can I go at somethin’ he doesn’t have?”
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He continues: “Arm so short he can’t even touch his hands/ When they’re up above his head doin’ jumpin’ jacks/ Sorry, I don’t mean to upset you, Ben/ When I talk about all the debt you in/ I hear that you been creepin’ on the low/ In them cheap hotels, that they catch you in.
“Jesus Christ, dawg, when you said two-ten/ Never guessed you meant at the Red Roof Inn/ In a room with one single bed, two men/ Shady, man, you can’t–, yes, you can. Well, I guess then I regret to inform you, hate to spoil the day/ But this doesn’t bring me no joy to say/ Guess that Coi Leray feat is in the toilet, ay?”
“Doomsday Pt. 2” is Eminem’s first shot at Benzino since the height of their feud in 2003 when the media mogul and occasional rapper released a diss track aimed at the Detroit legend.
The Source then released an early demo tape from Eminem recorded in the 1990s that saw the rapper using a racial slur.
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Benzino had claimed that the beef was over in March 2022 but has continued to take digs at Eminem in public, including, criticizing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for inducting Eminem ahead of Black artists such as Nas and Lauryn Hill.
Just hours after the song dropped, Coi Leray responded to her name being mentioned on “Doomsday Pt. 2″ — which appears on the new Lyrical Lemonade compilation All Is Yellow — with a series of tweets.
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“N-ggas went through so much shit in 2023, you would of thought people found God in 2024,” she began. “Mfs be so caught up in the devils work, it’s almost Impossible for them to change. Misery loves company. Rap beef is so washed and tired. Exhausting. Embarrassing. Just fucking over all corny as fuck.”
She continued: “I got no issues with no one. I’m so locked in on my grown and sexy vibes… if anybody don’t like me, that’s something they gotta take on with them selves. There’s no way I’m about to entertain these grown ass men and the beef they been having for over 20years . Lmao it’s so stupid all I can do is laugh. 2 decades later ?? gtfoh im grown. Move along. Go Stream my shit.”
