Eminem vs. Benzino Beef: Rappers Swap Diss Tracks

Publish date: 2024-06-01

Eminem and Benzino Swap Even More Diss Tracks Decades Into Their Feud

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Jan. 29 2024, Updated 4:15 p.m. ET

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The Eminem-vs-Benzino beef is still a thing, 20 years later — a lot to the embarrassment of Coi Leray, Benzino’s daughter — now that Em has taken some other shot at his rap nemesis within the new observe “Doomsday Pt. 2.”

Eminem spends a lot of that observe — which came out on Friday in Lyrical Lemonade’s debut album, “All Is Yellow” — mocking Benzino’s appearance and making insinuations concerning the rapper’s private lifestyles.

Eminem and Benzino’s beef escalated with “Doomsday Pt. 2.”

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In the center of “Doomsday Pt. 2,” Eminem starts deriding Benzino’s stature. “Now I were given a riddle, one situation, you mustn’t laugh,” Eminem raps on the observe. “What is the other of Benzino? A giraffe / ‘Go at his neck,’ how the f--k is that? / How can I go at somethin’ he doesn’t have? / Arms so short he can’t even contact his fingers / When they’re above his head doin’ jumpin’ jacks.”

Then Em claims Benzino is in debt and likewise references the time the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta alum was once noticed at a Red Roof Inn with some other guy. (Benzino in the past dispelled homosexual rumors and stated that he was staying at the motel with a friend as a result of he used to be low on money, consistent with People.

“Sorry, I don’t mean (What?) to disillusioned you, Ben’ / When I talk about all of the debt you in,” he raps. “I listen that you been creepin’ at the low / In them reasonable motels that they catch you in / Jesus Christ, dawg, whilst you said two-ten / Never guessed you supposed on the Red Roof Inn (S--t) / In a room with one unmarried mattress, two males (What?)”

Eminem even introduced Coi Leray, Benzino’s daughter, into the fray.

Later in the observe, Eminem raps about rapper Coi Leray, Benzino’s daughter, rapping that he doesn’t think they’ll be participating after this diss monitor of his. “Guess that Coi Leray feat’s in the toilet, ay?” he raps. “Damage due to flows, collateral, I s’pose.”

Coi seemingly spoke back to her “Doomsday Pt. 2” name-drop in a series of X posts on Friday. “Rap beef is so washed and drained,” she wrote in one post. “Exhausting. Embarrassing. Just f--king general corny as f--k.”

In another post, she wrote, “There’s no way I’m about to entertain these grown-ass men and the beef they been having for over 20 years … it’s so stupid. All I will be able to do is laugh. Two many years later?”

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Benzino spoke back with a diss observe of his own.

On Sunday, Benzino dropped “Vulturius,” a monitor wherein he fires again at Eminem, in keeping with Vibe. Benzino calls Em “candy-a--” and “b--h-a-- feminine,” for starters.

“Mad he lack melanin, all Valium’d up once more / Aw, s--t, right here we pass, Benzino vs. Jim Crow,” Benzino continues. “Know a custy once I see one, how many timesyou overdose?”

Benzino additionally brings up Coi at the observe. “And the truth, my daughter had a life that I never had / I’m almost certainly more Boston George than America’s Dad / But I supply it, food, garments, gifts saved y’all excited / Now you let the industry in point of fact lynch, keep us divided.”

So, why did Eminem diss Benzino anyway?

Eminem’s feud with Benzino dates back to 2002, when The Source, a magazine Benzino co-owned, simplest gave Em’s album “The Eminem Show” a four-microphone evaluate out of a imaginable five mics, in step with People.

Benzino accused Eminem of appropriating hip-hop, and the 2 traded barbs on diss tracks like Benzino’s “Pull Up Your Skirt” and “Die Another Day” and Em’s “Nail in the Coffin” and “The Sauce,” in step with Complex.

And in a 2023 interview on the podcast My Expert Opinion, Benzino admitted to blockading “The Eminem Show” from a five-mic score, as Vibe reported. “At this point, it’s getting disrespectful,” he said at the podcast, recalling this time. “So how the f--k am I gonna have this [n-word] in my magazine? … You’re now not gonna put no person on your magazine and give this [n-word] five mics after this [n-word]’s being disrespectful.”

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