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Eminem Track Escalates Hip-Hop Feud
The weekend leak of a song called "Bully" -- which appears to take aim directly at rival Benzino, founder of The Source -- heightens tensions on the music battleground.
Originally posted Tuesday November 25, 2003 11:00 AM EST
Eminem appears to be getting some lyrical revenge on his longtime rival, Raymond "Benzino" Scott, founder of hip-hop magazine The Source.
Portions of three previously unreleased Eminem tracks were leaked onto the Internet this weekend -- including a track titled "Bully" that appears to take aim directly at Benzino, MTV reports.
The song reportedly begins with Eminem speaking from another character's perspective: "It's my right to insist that he acknowledges my existence, but he just displays complete lack of respect."
Eminem then continues in his own voice: "That's what he says to himself as he uses magazines to trash me/ As he sits with both his feet up at his desk/ Smokes a bag of his weed/ And starts imagining things/ And he just can't see that he's manically depressed."
Although the release immediately follows the latest flare-up between the two -- in which Benzino last week unveiled a decade-old tape of a freestyle rap in which the then-15-year-old Eminem used racially offensive language to describe black women -- Eminem's representatives insist to MTV that these new tracks are six months old, and that "Bully" was never released.
Eminem last week apologized for the older rap, saying it was a youthful response to a bad breakup with a black girlfriend. "I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was," he said. "I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was."
Meanwhile, Benzino on Monday attacked hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons for defending the white rapper over the racially charged incident, MTV notes. In the wake of the old Eminem tape's release last week, Simmons's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network said that the language was "regrettable" but said that the group accepted the rapper's "sincere and forthright" apology.
Portions of three previously unreleased Eminem tracks were leaked onto the Internet this weekend -- including a track titled "Bully" that appears to take aim directly at Benzino, MTV reports.
The song reportedly begins with Eminem speaking from another character's perspective: "It's my right to insist that he acknowledges my existence, but he just displays complete lack of respect."
Eminem then continues in his own voice: "That's what he says to himself as he uses magazines to trash me/ As he sits with both his feet up at his desk/ Smokes a bag of his weed/ And starts imagining things/ And he just can't see that he's manically depressed."
Although the release immediately follows the latest flare-up between the two -- in which Benzino last week unveiled a decade-old tape of a freestyle rap in which the then-15-year-old Eminem used racially offensive language to describe black women -- Eminem's representatives insist to MTV that these new tracks are six months old, and that "Bully" was never released.
Eminem last week apologized for the older rap, saying it was a youthful response to a bad breakup with a black girlfriend. "I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was," he said. "I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was."
Meanwhile, Benzino on Monday attacked hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons for defending the white rapper over the racially charged incident, MTV notes. In the wake of the old Eminem tape's release last week, Simmons's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network said that the language was "regrettable" but said that the group accepted the rapper's "sincere and forthright" apology.
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