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Nicki Minaj wants to bring out Eminem at Pink Friday 2 tour, talks about “Majesty”

Nicki Minaj has recently joined fans on Stationhead where she talked about “Majesty” song with Labrinth and Eminem and expressed her desire to bring out Em at her Pink Friday 2 World Tour which will commence on March 1, 2024, in Oakland, United States, and is set to conclude on July 12, 2024, in London, England, at the Wireless Festival. It marks her first concert tour in over five years, since The Nicki Wrld Tour.

“You know what I was thinking guys? One of the things I wanted to say before I play a couple of my favorite songs, you know who I thought about too? Eminem. I listen to him on ‘Majesty’ with Labrinth, last night and I was like ‘oh, what the f–k!’ Eminem gonna have to come out the house for Pink Friday 2 Tour, I ain’t even going home. I’m going to that.” – said Nicki Minaj.

Then she continued: “Every bar I spit on ‘Majesty’ was so confident but for Eminem to bring it back to the concept of the song being called Majesty and said, instead of calling himself the king, the n-gga said the ‘queen and her husband, one thing you never wanna be is our subject’ and then I come back on the song […] That s–t is so f–king hard.”

Nicki Minaj will perform in Midtown Detroit, Michigan at Little Caesars Arena on April 20, 2024, which seems the perfect place to bring out the hometown hero, Slim Shady.

“Majesty” is the second collaboration between Eminem and Nicki. The two artists originally teamed up on “Roman’s Revenge” from Nicki’s 2010 album Pink Friday. In promotion for this song, Nicki and Eminem jokingly stated that they were dating on Instagram. Eminem even went as far as to “confirm the rumors” at his concert at Governors Ball. It was later confirmed those rumors were in fact just jokes.

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Calicoe recalls the night Proof died, says Bizarre carried on what Proof was doing

Detroit battle rap legend Calicoe has recently sat down with Kid L where they talked about his come up in the battle scene, and even being named by Proof. He tells a story of D12‘s Bizarre, making safety a priority during a rap battle that almost went left. They also talked about the Ultimate Rap League and his relationship with Smack.

“Bizarre is my dawg. If I would never told nobody that Bizarre helped me a lot in my situation and put me in position to win, nobody would know cause he never tells nobody. He would never tell nobody. Proof never tell nobody.” – said Calicoe.

Then he continued: “Proof was getting behind me before he passed. The night Proof died, I was downtown at his studio, whole night, waiting for him to come back from a bar cause I was too young I could not even get in to the bar. So, I could not go with him to the bar. I was doing a mixtape at his studio. He was going to push whole mixtape for me. He died that night, I went to school next morning seeing it on the news and they were like ‘D12 member has been shot.’ They didn’t even release the name. My blood cousin is Kuniva and everybody around me calling, making sure he okay and then we found out it was Proof.”

“That was some crazy s–t for me. I’m young as hell and somebody saying to me they gonna do this for me, they gonna put the album together, I don’t gotta pay for nothing, it’s all good, they believe me and then they die. I don’t even tell that story a lot. Bizarre carried on what Proof was doing. A lot of people don’t know Future in 8 Mile is Proof. A lot of people don’t know Proof had long dreads back in the day. A lot of people don’t understand that Proof was behind battle rap.” – Calicoe added.

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Awesome Dre comments on Eminem shouting him out at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Awesome Dre, who is considered the first major artist to emerge from the Motor City and has influenced nearly every rap act from Detroit, all over the Midwest and beyond, has recently sat down with Kid L for an interview where he talked about Eminem shouting him out during his acceptance speech at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Kid L: One of the last times that I’ve heard your name on mainstream media Eminem was at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, giving a speech and he shouted you out when he was listing all of his influences and inspirations, he mentioned Awesome Dre, which was insane right? Did you get to watch that live?

Awesome Dre: Nah, I didn’t see it on live but I was informed about it. He also mentioned our brother Merciless Ameer too you know. He came out at the time we came out too. So yeah, that was the s–t! Hell yeah!

Kid L: When you look at Eminem as an MC to MC type thing, it’s a cool to you but not as like stars-truck as most people would be?

Awesome Dre: Yeah, that’s the s–t. I mean, that motherf–ker who sold more records than anybody else in the world say that you was one of their influences that means I helped that moterf–ker sell all that [Laughs], more records than anybody else in the world. He listed a lot of motherf–kers man.”

Eminem at 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: “I’m gonna start with the 2 Live Crew, 2Pac, 3rd Bass, Alliance, Apache, Audio Two — Milk Dee, what up! — Awesome Dre, the Beastie Boys, Big Daddy Kane, Big Pun, Big L, Biz Markie, the Notorious B.I.G. of course, Black Moon, the Boogie Monsters, Brand Nubian, Brother J from X Clan, Buckshot, Casual from Heiroglyphics, Chill Rob G, Chubb Rock, Chuck D and Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, D-Nice, Dana Dane, De La Soul — now I’m about a third of the way done.”

“De La Soul, did I say De La Soul? Def Jef, Del the Funky Homosapien, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre of course, Dres from Black Sheep, Ed O.G., EPMD, Fat Boys, Fat Joe, Fu-Schnickens, Gang Starr, Geto Boys, Heavy D, House of Pain, Ice Cube, Ice-T, the Intelligent Hoodlum, JJ Fad, Jaz-O, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Just Ice, K-Solo, Kid & Play: I’m a tenth of the way done.”

“King Sun, King Tee, Kool G Rap, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Kwame, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Leaders of the New School, the one and only LL Cool J — love you bro. Lord Finesse, Lords of the Underground, Mantronix, Masta Ace, MC Breed, MC Lyte, MC Shan, Melle Mel, Merciless Ameer, Mobb Deep, Monie Love, Nas, Newcleus, Onyx, Organized Konfusion, Outkast, Andre 3000, Paris, Pharcyde, Queen Latifah, Rakim, Redhead Kingpin, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, I’m almost done.”

“Redman, Roxanne Shante, Run-D.M.C., Salt-N-Pepa, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Snoop Dogg, Souls of Mischief, Special Ed, Stetsasonic, now I’m all down to the S’s. Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud, the D.O.C., the Roots, Black Thought, the Skinny Boys, Tony D, Too $hort, Treach from Naughty By Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, U.T.F.O., Whodini, Wise Intelligent and the Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan and YZ.”

“Those were my rock stars man, and I just want to say, like, those are just a few of the names that I hope will be considered in the future for induction. Because without them, a lot of us wouldn’t be here. I know I wouldn’t.”

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Crunchy Black weighs in on Eminem & Benzino beef

Crunchy Black from legendary Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia has recently sat down on VLAD TV where he talked about Eminem and Benzino’s recent beef.

Interviewer: I know you don’t speak on women’s beef. So we gon’ bring it over to the men. Eminem. This dude is like hermit of rap. You don’t see him and then he pops his head out and then he goes back into his cave. He came out with a diss record out of the clear blue sky against Benzino.
Crunchy Black: I’m an Eminem fan. God, why he do that? Benzino? That n-gga can’t rhyme. Benzino needs to just stop. Ain’t no way in hell you finna kill no Eminem dawg. Cut that s–t out. You pacing your raps together. This n-gga rapping like Megan Stallion with Nicki. Cut that s–t out. Y’all just wanna be known. You wanna be known? Shoot yourself in the lake.

Interviewer: Maybe you didn’t hear what I said. Benzino was sitting home, chilling. Eminem just dropped record out of the clear blue sky and it was a diss record against Benzino.
Crunchy Black: Yeah, he might smell the man s–t a long way but in real life that was something that was old. He just came back and thought about it and said okay. I don’t know what they got going on but a lot of folks been f–king up.

Interviewer: Benzino dropped two joints and both of them were dope. And don’t get me wrong. You are talking to Eminem fan right now. Eminem is bananas on the mic and anybody who know me I give credit where it’s due. I’m from the East Coast, I respect lyrics. But my man Benzino dropped two bangers. He came back strong.
Crunchy Black: He dropped two? Eminem dropped one and he dropped two? Then he lost again.

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Kuniva responds to people who claim Eminem also has ghoswriters

Kuniva of D12 has recently responded to people who claim Eminem might also be using ghostwriters, in the context of Slim Shady may also was getting some help when he was in the studio with D12 or Royce 5’9″.

Benzino has recently admitted to having help writing his Eminem diss track but claims he spit the rhymes and “killed it.” He also said that Royce 5’9” sometimes ghostwrote for Eminem too. In the video clip, shared couple of weeks ago, Zino says: “People ask if somebody else wrote it. Look, I was in the studio, and I was in the studio with some guys and I was writing and they was passing me lines and it was just, yeah, you got the team. It’s alright. I’m sure Eminem is also in the studio with Royce and Royce give him lines. All the amazing lyricists that he has been around, you don’t think they gave him a line or two? It’s hip-hop. It’s okay! Bottom line was, I spit it and the bottom line was, I killed it. And bottom line was, a lot of s–t I’ve been researching for years, as far as the stuff that’s in it. Yeah, of course I wrote that.”

In response, Royce commented on Diverse Mentality‘s Instagram post, saying: “You said “I’m sure when Em is in the studio ROYCE gives him a line here and there” Wrong.. THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.. Not even once… But to each his own…”

CyHi The Prynce has recently sat down with Math Hoffa and the rest of the crew on My Expert Opinion and suggested that Eminem might also has ghostwriters in positive way: “You think he ain’t have no ghostwriters? Man, you ain’t sitting around 12 n-ggas just f–king smoking blunts. It’s called D12. It’s called Proof. It’s called all them n–gas he grew up with.” He then made clear, however, that he was not necessarily saying those people wrote bars for Eminem. Instead, he said that it was important for rappers to surround themselves with people who bring them “thoughts,” “ideas,” and “experiences.”

Now D12’s Kuniva speaks out. The Detroit rapper has shared a video of Warren G talking about Eminem writing for Dr. Dre: “Eminem is dope. I ain’t saying Game ain’t dope but Eminem is…You gotta look at what motherf–ker wrote. Things just ain’t the same for gangstas. He wrote that for Dre! That’s one of my favorite f–king songs. How the f–k can you write this for this ni–a and the s–t sound like it’s him. And that motherf–ker went diamond plus, diamond plus, diamond plus and all that s–t. He’s talented. I ain’t taking s–t from Game, Game is dope too. But they different. The Game is also student of the game, it’s just Eminem…I promise you that motherf–ker wrote that s–t like he was inside Dre’s body in his head. That s–t was so mothef–king hard.” In the caption, Kuniva wrote: “When they talk like my big bro Eminem has a ghostwriter. How SWAY?! A ghostwriter who needs a ghostwriter?? Get the f–k out of here. GOAT. Shout out to the big homie @regulator.”

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When they talk like my big bro @Eminem has a ghostwriter. How SWAY?! A ghostwriter who needs a whostwriter?? gtfoh. 🐐 shout out to the big homie @regulator 💯💯🫡 pic.twitter.com/afQu9LNWZk

— 🏁KUNIVA of D12 🏁 (@KunivaD12) February 23, 2024

Jake Bass celebrates 25-year anniversary of Eminem’s “SSLP” with an iconic picture

To celebrate 25 years anniversary of Eminem‘s major label debut album The Slim Shady LP, producer, composer and music engineer, Jake Bass, who is also a son of legendary Jeff Bass from Bass Brothers, dedicated a post to Slim Shady on social media.

Jake Bass shared a picture of Eminem’s “The Slim Shady LP” and “My Name Is” covers displayed on huge billboard which he took in California. In the caption, he wrote: “25 YEARS!!! February 23rd, 1999 was the release of The Slim Shady LP by @eminem and the day I took this photo in Cali!!! It was the craziest feeling seeing the WEB logo on a billboard in Hollywood!!! No one knew what would end up happening, but a week later, after charting at Number 2, our world and THE world was changed forever.”

The Slim Shady LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, just below TLC’s FanMail album, and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It was a critical and commercial success, with critics praising Eminem for his unique lyrical style, dark humor lyrics, and unusual personality. The first single, “My Name Is”, became Eminem’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won Best Rap Album at the 2000 Grammy Awards, while “My Name Is” won Best Rap Solo Performance. In 2000, The Slim Shady LP was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It is often mentioned in lists of the greatest albums of all time.

Jake Bass officially joined the “family business” working for FBT Productions in 2004, the caliber of which artists like Eminem and other fine artists made their very beginnings or early successes.

In November 2016, Jake and F.B.T. Productions co-produced and performed the instrumentation on the 20th anniversary remix of Eminem’s 1996 debut single “Infinite”, and produced the mini-documentary Partners In Rhyme: The True Story of Infinite. The single, available for the first time digitally, entered Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart at No. 9 with 28,000 downloads sold in its first week. The remix also entered the Digital Song Sales chart at No. 21, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 37, the Spotify Viral 50 chart at No. 47 and The Hot 100 at No. 97.

In December of 2023, Jake became a touring member of D12, playing guitar with them internationally, opening for Ice Cube, Cypress Hill and De La Soul under the name “Dirty Jake.”

Mekhi Phifer recalls shooting ‘8 Mile’ with Eminem & his reaction to ‘Lose Yourself’

Mekhi Phifer, who played Future in Eminem‘s ‘8 Mile’ movie, has recently joined Rich Eisen on his show where he dished the dirt on making ‘8 Mile’, his time on ‘ER,’ and landing his first-ever role in Spike Lee’s ‘Clockers’ in a round of ‘Celebrity True or False.’

“Yes, I almost turned down the role in 8 Mile because of ER TV show. To my agent I turned it down. And then they were like ‘no, you are not turning this down’ because I was due to start ER. ER was already a mega show. I was joining at the end of season 8, last couple of episodes and I really wanted to play a doctor. ER had all them Golden Globes, the Emmys and 9/11 had just happened. So, people were scared to fly. I’m New Yorker, I saw what happened to the towers. I did know Curtis Hansen work, LA Confidential and Wonder Boys and all of that, great great great director, rest in peace.” said Mekhi Phifer.

Then he continued: “They flew my out to Detroit and I met with Eminem. We spent few days together and chopped it up. It was great. We hit it off immediately. I saw how serious he was. They could not give me the script. I had to read the script in Curtis’ office because they were being so hush hush about it. I loved it. But it was not what you see on the screen. I knew I could bring some nuance to it and something different, certain energy and certain spirit so…Then ER’s John Wells said go do the movie and soon as you finish the movie, you come and start ER. I rep the movie and the week later I was on ER set. I’m glad I did it. I mean, Eminem threw my name in the song and won an Oscar. It was the most popular downloaded songs ever. ”

“I was surprised when he included my name in ‘Lose Yourself.’ We were shooting one day. Eminem had three trailers. He had one trailer to sleep and stuff like that. He had a studio trailer because he was doing his album and the soundtrack at the same time. And he had a gym trailer to work out. And around two in the morning, we are shooting one night and he came back to the set and said ‘Yo, Mekhi, after this take I wanna take you to the studio. I want to put your name in the song. We all went to the trailer and he played the song and it was raw. It was not mastered or mixed. We got to the party like ‘there’s no movie, there is no Mekhi Phifer’ and everybody erupted. I didn’t know it was gonna be…I didn’t know 8 Mile was gonna be 8 Mile. And I didn’t know the song was gonna be as impactful.”

“He told me if I put your name on a song, is that cool? I said ‘hell yeah! that’s cool!’ because back then Eminem was crushing people with…you know, he was killing people if he put your name in the song, usually it’s not good. It ends your career. He smack you around with his lyrics. So, I was very proud of that and very appreciative of him making me a part of that in a bigger way than was initially it was gonna be.”

“My stuff during battle scenes were totally ad-lib. All of the stuff that I said on stage cause that was not on the script. All of my instructions to the rappers, all of my audience participation, all of that was ad-lib. They wrote their rhymes because they had to have rhymes written because of continuity. But my stuff was totally ad-lib. ‘DJ, spin that s–t!’ all that stuff was ad-lib and the reason I said ‘DJ, spin that’ is because I forgot the guys name [laughs]. I don’t remember his name but he was a very good DJ. Shout out to Detroit, I’m sure he’s favorite in Detroit.” Mekhi Phifer added.

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Robert Horry recalls talking trash with Eminem at 2005 NBA Finals

The fierce battle between the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs back in the 2005 Finals had Detroit legend Eminem watching and supporting the Eastern Conference champs. Making a fortune out of his impressive way with words, Slim Shady talked trash against the visitors. Robert Horry recollected being targeted by Eminem in Game 5 of the series during recent interview on Games with Names, hosted by former Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman.

“I noticed in the clip earlier that you had you show Eminem up there. And I never talked trash, and Eminem was behind the bench saying, ‘You won’t be getting No. 6 tonight, buddy.’ I looked at him, and so I started talking trash to Eminem. After I hit my first shot, I said, ‘You in f–king trouble now, dawg. They better f-king get me.’ I said, ‘It’s on.’ … He just started smiling. He didn’t say much. And then after I did this dunk on Rip (Richard Hamilton), I looked at him like, ‘Told you. It’s f–king over.’ It was just one of those things I never talk trash but when someone talks trash to me and it’s Eminem, the one of the greatest rappers of all time, I had to talk trash back to him.” said Robert Horry. And the Julian Edelman added: “We gotta rename this game. It’s the Eminem Game. Eminem, thank you for talking s–t to Big Shot Bob cause it made him talk himself into a moment.”

Eminem was probably hyped for his hometown team, as the Pistons were gunning for a two-peat then. The artist was also sighted in the 2004 Finals and likely celebrated delightedly when they slayed the giant, the Los Angeles Lakers.

In 2005, though, they faced off against a squad that was also defensive-minded and played physically…As many folks expected, the series turned out to be a bloodbath, and the Spurs were fortunate that Horry found additional motivation in Game 5, which was the last contest hosted by Detroit because the Finals was played under the 2-3-2 format at the time and San Antonio had home court advantage. So, you can only imagine how rowdy the home crowd was.

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Studio session of Benzino & his ghostwriters of Eminem-diss has been leaked

Popular YouTuber Cliff Beats has recently received a message from stranger who is asking $20,000 dollars for leaking Benzino ‘s 10 hours session of Eminem diss song “Rap Elvis.”

Here are the messages and video Cliff Beats received. “Peace, reaching out to you on behalf of the actual artist/producer of Rap Elvis to ask you if you think there may be a buyer for the actual reference track. Think it’s time we leak it. If so, let’s talk. If you may not know of anyone that may not want to purchase it to leak no problem. Thanks in advance.”

“We recorded it out here in the A. My guy Ness is the writer/producer of the track. I’m the one who put the whole play together. We talked about reaching out to someone that might wanted to get compensated being that it’s a piece of a puzzle everyone is looking for. I checked a few of your videos out and you seem like a solid individual so I reached out.”

“Have not shopped it yet. We definitely have the whole recording process. Just say it was Dr. Dre with Eazy-E first song process. Line for line. I only sent you that so you know I’m not bs’n with you. We talking 20K. That way we get payed and the person that drops it first get monetized through views and reactions. If you yourself pass, maybe you have someone in mind that may want an exclusive. I hollered at you first because I can appreciate how you break down your videos and can tell you know what you are talking about.”

“Got the whole studio session, as well as the whole reference track. Same person that did the reference track is the same person engineering the whole session. He did everything except the album cover which was my homeboy girl. I know because I was there whole 10 hours of recording! One way or another, I do appreciate your help. Two of my guys had their cameras tolling in front of everyone. Regular cams, no phone footage either. Just let me know what you hear. Thank you again.”

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Obie Trice responds to Benzino crying & namedropping him on Eminem diss

Few hours ago, former Shady Records artist, Obie Trice responded to Benzino crying during Drink Champs interview and namedropping him on Eminem diss song “Rap Elvis.”

Obie shared a picture of Benzino crying on his Instagram with the caption: “Marshall needs no help. Please stop. You talking about my champ GOAT n-gga, you weird. Look at this guy he’s in between blessings. LEAVE EMINEM ALONE FOO. I pray for humankind this n_gga cried on Drink Champs, what?? There’s no beef. No one cares bro. Get money, LIVE!! FOR YOU Benzino ‘f-ck Eminem’ you will never win bro. Whhhossahh, as a black man you playing yourself. Crying.”

He continued: “We destroyed you years ago LET IT GO!! I hope the best for Benzino. You said my name in your song bro. Man, it wasn’t eyebrow raising, you reaching for what OG?? .. get to the money!! I looked up to The Source magazine I grew up off that sir!! Go back and listen stubborn old man we took you out years ago you thought dawg was a w-gger. I would have never been there bro. PLEASE STOP YOU EMBARRASSING OUR CULTURE BRA. ITS REALLY NOT THAT SERIOUS TO BE. This not Elton John, we will never respect what you said about that man’s daughter bruh gets some therapy that sh-t works, if you engage keep going homie.”

In the song Rap Elvis, Benzino raps: Okay, you found 50, and you put on five Detroit n-ggas / Rest in peace to the best one, the rest of them sound iffy / So let’s go down your stable (Okay) / Gunn left your label (Uh huh) / Benny left your label (That’s right) / Con’ left your label (Ah) / Royce left your label, Joe Budden left your label (Damn), Ortiz left your label, know Crooked I couldn’t save you (Nah), Yelawolf been out here floppin’ and where the hell Ca$his at though? (Where he at?)/ Heard from Obie Trice only twice and not a word from Stat Quo (Not a word) / With all them false lines that you pitched them / Shady Records sound like less of a name and more like a description (Stop it).”

When Obie says “we will never respect what you said about that man’s daughter,” he’s referring to Benzino’s 2002 diss track “Die Another Day,” where he raps: “Tell Hailie it ain’t safe no more (nah) / Daddy better watch your back at the candy store / You f-cked up / Resort to plan B, f-ck around, she end up like JonBenét Ramsey (that’s right) Matter of fact you better check the DNA (what) / She probably ain’t yours and where’s your wife Kim anyway?”

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Charlamagne reacts to Benzino crying over Eminem beef

Charlamagne tha God, Jess Hilarious and DJ Envy have recently discussed Benzino’s new emotional interview on Drink Champs with NORE and DJ EFN.

During Drink Champs interview, Benzino got drunk, got emotional and started crying: “I don’t have nothing against Eminem. He can rap but I care about us more. I don’t want to talk about it no more. For 22 years, every time I do interviews they ask me about Eminem. The fu-k you want me to do? C’mon man. My daughter came to industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad.’ You think this sh-t is fu-king cool? Nah man, we are failing as a people. I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate. I don’t hate white people. I’m tired of this sh-t man. It’s too much.”

After Jess Hilarious played the audio for Charlamagne, he said: “I like when people get that drunk. That’s when alcohol gets your holiness soul, you just start spilling your gut and give your life to the Lord in that moment. I respect it.”

He then continued: “Whatever he said in that moment is what he means. So, he don’t hate white people and he don’t have a problem with Eminem like that. That’s it.” From there, DJ Envy added: “I feel Benzino. They play on Benzino’s name a lot. Let’s be honest. Benzino was one of the people who created The Source magazine which was an institution that helped so many different artists. They were doing so well.” Charlamagne added: “They always coming for his neck. You know what I mean. Salute to Benzino. And Salute to Drink Champs.”

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