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A Journalist from Benzino's Hometown Criticizes Benzino
Contributed by: M. Villa
Source: The Elements
Posted on: December 26, 2003 12:31 PST
Filed under: Rap

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A journalist from The Boston Globe is criticizing The Source after a judge agreed to allow the rap publisher to distribute a 20 second clip of the Eminem recoding that they've labeled "raciest."

The Boston Globe's Renee Graham called The Source's motive "suspected" considering the more prominent and detrimental issues in hip-hop which the magazine has never addressed so vociferously.

"Benzino and Mays claim to be concerned with exposing 'influences corrupting hip-hop,' but there are far more serious issues - such as a lack of creativity, obsessions with wealth, and yes, ongoing anti- woman, anti-gay rhetoric - facing the community than the contents of a scratchy old tape," states Graham, who publishes the popular "Life in the Pop Lane" column.

And echoing the sentiment of many in the hip-hop community who've since moved on from caring about "the tape", Graham tells Benzino and Mays, to "move on" and cites Benzino's own racism for attacking Eminem simply because he's successful and white in hip-hop.

"Eminem has acknowledged the tape's veracity and has apologized. It's time to move on. Perhaps when The Source becomes as concerned with the state of rap music as with playing out a strange, personal vendetta with its own racist undertones, then the magazine may be more successful in exposing and ridding hip-hop of its corrupting influences."
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