Benzino: "I do want to say that the situation with me and Eminem definitely, if I could have done it over, I would've, in the sense that we would have probably sat down and really had dialogue that as infuential and as big as he was and is, and back then as the Source and whatever influence I had, I think it probably could have been better. But you know, things happen, and I'm saying you live and you learn, and you just move on."
Sway: "You know, I'm trying my hardest not bring that stuff up, but I feel like you keep bringing it up."
Benzino: "No, it's good though, it should be talked about because it's the past."
Sway: "Okay. You went on a crusade with Em because of an old demo that he had and he used the n-word in it, and I remember that was part of it, and then it was the ongoing thing with 50 and everybody...and that was a dark era for rap music, because all the beef that everybody had superceded the culture when it really shouldn't, 'cause at the end of the day, now the beef dissipated and the culture is still here.
Benzino: "Exactly, the culture's bigger than the beef."
Sway: "You had rage in you at that time, what were you going through, why did you feel the need to..."
Benzino: "I just felt like when you're at the Source, I didn't really have anybody to answer to, it was me and Dave, and I probably did have rage, you come up in Boston, and you deal with racism differently and you want an even playing field for everything. I probably was an angry person back then, even with all the success of the Source and the money and everything, I just felt like...that I was probably...and you know, I can say it now, I was wrong for it. 'Cause at the end of the day, Em's a great lyricist, and he should be able to express himself in hip-hop as anybody should. But what people don't understand [about] hip-hop is that it's always been, in a rapping sense, it's always been where it's battling, confrontational in a sense on the mic, and you used hip-hop to voice your opinions, it's not like we was shooting guns at each other or anything. It got personal, and it got a little crazy, but if anything I'm saying, you know, Em's still doing his thing, and he's still a great influence on hip-hop, and hip-hop has bridged the cultures, white, black, Latino, Asian, it's for everybody."
Sway: "And he was a big part of that."
Benzino: "And yes, he was a big part of that. I probably had different views of it then, but as you move on, you look at things different, and as you get older you mature, my thoughts are different now. I didn't want to...as far as beefing with Em, if I offended anybody with that, I definitely apologize to hip-hop for that. But at the end of the day, coming from Boston, Boston was at that time really ganged out, so you come from the streets and you deal with confrontation different, and as I've gotten older, I understand that it's way better to attract flies with sugar than venom."
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So that diss Benzino promised he'd give Em in 2012? Not gonna happen.
