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Overwhelmed With Emotion Benzino Reflected On How His Beef With Eminem Has Impacted His Daughter Coi Leray

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Beef is a permanent dish on hip-hop’s menu; anyone can be served a heaping helping. While time can sometimes aid in relationship mending, that’s not always the cause for rappers. Benzino and Eminem’s longstanding feud is a prime example of this. In the past few weeks alone, they’ve each dropped disses toward the other. So, during Benzino’s recent appearance on Drink Champs, the host couldn’t help but ask about it.

Throughout the episode uploaded on February 17, Benzino took several jabs at Eminem. At one point, he even implied that Eminem’s rise to fame in rap was due to him being white. However, near the end of the sit down (the 2-hour 34-minute mark), Benzino, overwhelmed with emotion and alcohol, reflected on how his issue with Eminem has impacted his daughter Uproxx cover star Coi Leray.

“I don’t have nothing against Eminem,” he said. “He can rap, but I care about us more. I don’t want to talk about it no more,” he said. “My daughter came to industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad. I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate him. I don’t hate white people tired of this sh*t, man. It’s just too much. I don’t want to be the bad guy.”

Leray previously spoke about how Benzino’s past mix-ups could have derailed her career, including her guest verse from Nicki Minaj on “Blick Blick.”

Watch Benzino’s full interview on the Drink Champs podcast above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

[WATCH] Memphis Bleek Claims DMX Chased Mase And Threatened Him in Miami

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Memphis Bleek shared a number of never heard before stories about his time under the Roc-A-Fella umbrella on his recent visit to Drink Champs, including a funny encounter with Jay-Z, when he asked Hov for tickets to a Beyoncé concert and his response had Drink Cham;s hosts DJ EFN and N.O.R.E. in stitiches.

Bleek also spoke about his time around late Hip Hop icon DMX and the first time he met Ruff Ryders’ premier artist. The 534 emcee spoke about X, saying, “This is the first day I met X. Diddy and Bad Boy, and them are all riding down on the beach. Here come Ma$e on a scooter. That n***a X jumped out the car and started chasing Ma$e. ‘Yo! Get back here! Wait ’til I catch you, n***a!’”

Bleek continued, “So I’m in the back seat, like, ‘Yo! What the fuck happened between him and Ma$e?’ And nobody in the n***a crew was running behind him, trying to stop him. So I said, ‘Whoever this n***a is, he’s official.’”

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Memphis Bleek Recalls Michael Jackson at Summer Jam: ‘Mike Didn’t Want Eye-to-Eye Contact’

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Memphis Bleek has spent plenty of time next to JAY-Z and has seen some amazing things. One of which is Hov bringing Michael Jackson out during Summer Jam.

Sitting with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs, Bleek revealed what it was like to be around the King of Pop.

“If you wasn’t with Hov you had to turn around and face the wall,” Bleek said. “G, they was making niggas turn up face the wall like it was the pat-down on the block. Like, everybody because Mike didn’t want eye-to-eye contact. Nobody look him in his eyes.”

On the most recent episode of Drink Champs, former Roc-A-Fella Records artist Memphis Bleek talked about. the difficulty had encountered just. to get tickets to Beyoncé’s concert and the response he got from Hov when he requested the tickets.

“Yo listen, for me to get Beyoncé tickets was a problem,” Bleek said. “My wife hit me like, ‘Yo, you know she in Philly for my birthday,” I’m like, ‘Aight cool, what that got to do with me? You tryna send me in there for the war baby?’ So, you know, f*** it, it’s wifey, so I hit all the top dogs. I ain’t gon’ even say no names. All the bosses.” He continued, “All of them said, ‘Yo Bleek. You buggin? You know you gotta hit Jay!’ I’m like aight, I tried not to, but now I gotta hit you. I got to! I tried to go around, but now this message gotta go to you, like fuck it.”

“Yo big homie, I need some tickets for the show, it’s wifey B-day,” Bleek said to Jay who replied, “Ah nah, n***as tryna turn me into the ticket guy now?”

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[WATCH] Memphis Bleek Recalls Jay-Z’s Reaction To Him Asking For Beyoncé Concert Tickets

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On the most recent episode of Drink Champs, former Roc-A-Fella Records artist Memphis Bleek talked about. the difficulty had encountered just. to get tickets to Beyoncé’s concert and the response he got from Hov when he requested the tickets.

“Yo listen, for me to get Beyoncé tickets was a problem,” Bleek said. “My wife hit me like, ‘Yo, you know she in Philly for my birthday,” I’m like, ‘Aight cool, what that got to do with me? You tryna send me in there for the war baby?’ So, you know, f*** it, it’s wifey, so I hit all the top dogs. I ain’t gon’ even say no names. All the bosses.” He continued, “All of them said, ‘Yo Bleek. You buggin? You know you gotta hit Jay!’ I’m like aight, I tried not to, but now I gotta hit you. I got to! I tried to go around, but now this message gotta go to you, like fuck it.”

“Yo big homie, I need some tickets for the show, it’s wifey B-day,” Bleek said to Jay who replied, “Ah nah, n***as tryna turn me into the ticket guy now?”

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After Ye’s Infamous Taylor Swift VMAs Moment, He Did An ‘Exile’ To Japan Because ‘America Hated’ Him

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It goes without saying, but Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Taylor Swift have had a famously contentious relationship since the infamous stage-crashing incident at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Now, Ye has revealed that the situation really impacted him, so much so that during the aftermath, he fled to Japan.

The second part of Ye’s recent Drink Champs interview is out now, and in it, he revealed (as Pitchfork notes) that after the VMAs, he “did a personal exile” with Virgil Abloh in Japan because “all of America hated” him. He also said, “Everyone was like, ‘You wrong for this one, you won’t win this,’ by telling me, ‘You shouldn’t have ran on stage, you were rude,’ God forbid.”

He also addressed the VMAs in the previously released first part of the interview, saying, “I was actually talked in to going to the awards show. At that time, it was [my manager] Don C.’s job to talk me into stuff. They find new people whose job would be to talk me into doing something that I don’t want to do — influencers, people around you. So that night, I said, ‘Man, I’m not going to this awards show. I’m not sitting through this no more.’ And the very first award, they sit me in the front row. You got [Beyoncé’s] ‘Single Ladies’ video… this is one of the best videos in history. So it’s not that it’s just for her when the artist does something that’s that compelling and incredible. We got to respect it.”

Watch the new Drink Champs episode below.