Benzino has claimed that he as soon as ran JAY-Z and Dame Sprint out of The Supply journal workplaces with the assistance of armed goons.
The Hip Hop media character recalled the alleged incident throughout an interview with the We In Miami Podcast, the place he mirrored on his tumultuous time in command of the once-influential “Bible of Hip Hop.”
In accordance with Benzino, the Roc-A-Fella co-founders got here as much as the journal’s workplaces in New York Metropolis to complain about “a canopy scenario.” Little did they know, nevertheless, that seven of Benzino’s goons have been mendacity in wait with weapons on the prepared.
“This one time, Jay and Dame was complaining a few cowl scenario, they usually got here as much as The Supply on some rah-rah shit,” he mentioned. “So I had n-ggas strapped up in numerous rooms — they didn’t know that.
“So that they up there and began getting loud, as a result of we simply wished them to assume that Dave [Mays, co-founder of The Source] was up there with only one particular person.”
He continued: “Certain sufficient, it begins getting loud. N-ggas begin popping out them rooms, they usually needed to rise up out of there. There was just a few of them, I feel possibly three or 4. However there was a minimum of seven of us. There was a minimum of seven weapons up in The Supply.
“Jay don’t get loud; it was Dame. They began getting loud with Dave after which, you recognize, ‘Aiight, sufficient is sufficient. That’s it. Y’all received to go.’ It’s nothing towards Dame Sprint — respect to Dame. However that occurred.”
Artists intimidating (and even assaulting) Hip Hop journalists within the ’90s wasn’t unusual. In 1994, Cheo Hodari Coker was allegedly punched by the Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa over illustrations of the group that accompanied a narrative about them he wrote for Rap Pages.
4 years later, Jesse Washington, the then-editor of Blaze journal, was reportedly badly crushed by 4 males — considered one of them Dangerous Boy producer Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie.
Washington claimed that D-Dot was offended as a result of Blaze had recognized him because the Madd Rapper, the comical, chronically aggrieved character who made his debut on Biggie’s Life After Loss of life.
Washington additionally reportedly had a gun pointed at him by Wyclef Jean, who was sad a few unfavourable evaluation of Canibus’Can-I-Bus album, which he helped produce.
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In accordance with Benzino, nevertheless, The Supply was proof against such strong-arm techniques with him on the helm.
“If somebody’s urgent up on me, that’s it. It’s struggle. The heavens will fall you attempt to press up on me,” the Boston native mentioned. “You attempting to bully me? You attempting to take one thing from me? No, I’m the taker. I grew up taking. No one takes from me.”
He added: “N-ggas knew within the business, I be deep and we be strapped up wherever we went. We received right into a bunch of beefs and fights and loopy shit and after some time, n-ggas knew, ‘Don’t fuck with them.’
“You couldn’t press us for a canopy. No one pressed us. In my 18 years, no one has ever pressed us for something.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Benzino claimed that The Supply was comfortably pulling in seven figures every month on the top of its recognition, which made him personally wealthier than JAY-Z, Diddy and different NYC rap moguls on the time.
“At our peak, we have been making a few million {dollars} in month — in money,” he mentioned. “At one level, I had more cash than Jay, Diddy, all people in New York.”
