Eminem reacts to the release of his racist remarks

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Eminem found himself on the defensive Tuesday (November 18) after The Source
magazine owners Ray Benzino and Dave Mays held a press conference to play a
recording of the MC delivering racial slurs.

On the first of two tracks purportedly recorded in 1993, an audibly young Slim
Shady raps, "All the girls I like to bone have big butts/ No they don't, 'cause
I don't like that n----- sh--/ I'm just here to make a bigger hit."

The second track featured Eminem rapping about a black girlfriend he broke up
with. "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/ But black girls only want your
money, 'cause they're dumb chicks," he rhymes. Later in the freestyle Em raps,
"Never date a
black girl, because blacks only want your money/ And that sh-- ain't funny."

The first track was only a few lines long, but the second track went on for
several minutes with Em - seemingly rhyming off the top of his head -
repeatedly saying he did not like black girls and that they were only out to
get money. Both tracks
sounded amateurish.

"Don't make this right now a double standard," Benzino said at the press
conference. "We gotta treat this the same way you treat Mike Tyson, like you
treat Kobe Bryant, like you treat R. Kelly, like you treat O.J. Simpson."

Eminem responded by insisting he isn't racist and explaining that the recording
was made when he was young, foolish and angry.

"Ray Benzino, Dave Mays and The Source have had a vendetta against me, Shady
Records and our artists for a long time," Eminem said in a statement. "The tape
they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration
when I was a
teenager. I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and
I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the
foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into
today."

Eminem, 50 Cent and the rest of the Shady/Aftermath team have had a
long-running feud with The Source, fueled by Benzino's accusations that the
media operate on a double standard when it comes to the multiplatinum white MC
and that an artist of
color could never get away with saying some of the things Em says in his music
After their comments, Benzino and Mays refused to entertain questions about the
tape and its origins. They did say they plan to include a CD of the Eminem
recordings in
February's issue, and they promised another press conference concerning Eminem
will be held in the future, when they'll answer questions and have civic
leaders and members of the hip-hop community on hand.

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