Random Old nEminem Article!!!

February’s issue culminates The Source’s year long investigation of forces corrupting Hip-Hop, which began in March 2003 with a package, “Hip-Hop Under Attack.” Among the other shocking revelations in this month’s issue“The Real Slim Shady”:

• Between 1988 and 1993, Eminem formed an all-White rap collaborative known as Bassmint Productions that produced “The Racist Rap Hour with Bassmint Productions.” Fellow MCEminem’s rhyming partner in Bassmint Productions, White MC Chaos Kid, provides The Source with an exclusive interview where who was therehe describes first- hand how thesethe racist recordings were made and why he refused to be a part of themit.describes first-hand how these recordings were made and why he didn’t participate saying,

• Eminem tried to cover up other racist recordings held by Bbrothers DJ Butterfingers and Manix, both partthe other members of Bassmint Productions, which have yet to surface. Chaos Kid saidsays Eminem “asked Manix to destroy it.”“I refused to even get on it… I didn’t feel comfortable about being a part of [it], so I didn’t rap on it.”

• Eminem hid his racist tracks from his first Black producer and record label owner, Champtown, who was responsible for introducing Eminem to Detroit’s Black Hip-Hop community and who helped shape him to be the superstar he is today. Champtown was shocked to hear some of Eminem’s racist tracks for the first time in 2000. “I definitely heard some tapes with Slim [using] words like ‘moon crickets’ and ? like that on it. And there was ‘spear chucker’ on it… and ‘porch monkeys,’” said Champtown.

• Champtown and Eminem’s older friends dispute Eminem’s claim that his breakup with an “African-American girlfriend” is what caused him to record “Foolish Pride” where he rants, “Black girls are ? ” among other things. Said Champtown, “I don’t believe it. He was with Kim for the whole time I knew him. I never knew him to date any Black women.” Chaos Kid doesn’t remember his Black girlfriend either: “This whole story about him going out with a Black girl – I don’t know.”

• Brothers DJ Butterfingers and Manix, both part of Bassmint Productions have much more unreleased Eminem material. Chaos Kid said “[Eminem] asked Manix to destroy it.”• Members of Detroit’s Hip-Hop community view Eminem’s management as racist. Of Paul Rosenberg, who has managed Eminem since 1998, Champtown says, “I feel that Paul Rosenberg is prejudiced. I heard from inside the camp about how Blacks are being underpaid…I know who introduced [Rosenberg] to Eminem and he is no longer on the map. He was fired. He was the last Black survivor with any authority in the camp and he was fired recently.”

• Chaos Kid says, “To me he’s reached a point where he’s put the dollar before his conscience, and unfortunately, it is going to be his downfall.”

This comprehensive examination of racism in Hip-Hop also features comments from Hip-Hop players fromleading entrepreneurs, artists, scholars and activists such as Irv Gotti, Mack 10, to Suge KnightDr. Michael Eric Dyson toand Crazy Legs sounding off on Eminem and racism;, an interview with one of the White Hip-Hop fans from Detroit who drove across the country in order to bring Eminem’s racist tracks to light;, and an insightful essay on perceptions of race and racism across three generations of one African-American family by fFeatures eEditor Jerry Barrow. In addition, in a wide-ranging and frank interview, Benzino, who was the first person to stand up and question racist and monopolistic practices in Hip-Hop, faces down those who have attacked him and explains how these latest discoveries vindicate his beliefs. VH 1 specials, MTV and “8 Mile” would have you believe that Eminem grew up in one of Detroit’s poor Black neighborhoods. The reality is Eminem went to Lincoln High School, a predominately White school in Warren, Michigan that was known as “War-n-tucky for its reputation as a hotbed of racism.”

The feature on Eminem’s hidden past – where one of his old rhyming partners tells all about The Racist Rap Sessions of 1993 – and an interview with one of the White Hip-Hop fans from Detroit who drove across the country in order to bring Eminem’s racist tracks to light anchor the package on racism. Features editor Jerry Barrow weighs in with an essay on race; Hip-Hop players from Irv Gotti to Suge Knight to Crazy Legs speak their minds on the controversy; and Benzino asserts that The Source is “the last line of defense” against the forces that will destroy Hip-Hop: greedy record labels, mainstream media with a “double standard” towards race and rappers like Eminem who threaten to completely co-opt an African-American art form. Benzino’s statements are backed up in “The Making of a Hip-Hop Monopoly”, which outlines exactly how with a detailed diagram, corporate control of radio, retail, distribution and a concentration of major recording artists under one record label (Interscope) has marginalized independent artists and stolen Hip-Hop from the Black and Latino communities that gave birth to it. The power of Interscope to bias the media, and influence recording artists is further demonstrated by Russell Simmons rush to defend Eminem, despite not having heard the racist tracks in “Politics as Usual: Russell Simmons’s Comments.”February’s issue continues The Source’s yearlong investigation of forces corrupting Hip-Hop, which began in March 2003 with a package, “Hip-Hop Under Attack.”

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Verse from Yellow Brick Road:
"All I remember is meeting back at Manix's basement
saying how we hate this, how racist but dope the x clan's tape is...
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two time me and there was this black girl
At our school who thought I was cool cause I rapped so she was kinda eyeing me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gonna say it plus
The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest ? damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it
Not only would I become more popular but I would be able to ? Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or spoke to the oh foolish pride girl
But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that apologize
I was wrong cause no matter what color a girl is she's still a soul"