Benzino has mentioned that he’s the rationale that Andre 3000 made his now-infamous 1995 Supply Awards speech — and he’s able to come clean with his errors.
The previous Supply co-founder continued his mea culpa tour when he stopped by Ray Daniels’ GAUDS — Goats and Underdogs — podcast. The complete episode, which dropped as we speak (April 10), featured Benzino giving all of the tea on how he managed to piss off the previous OutKast frontman.
“The rationale why André 3000 mentioned what he did, I’ma have to inform y’all this story,” he mentioned. “After they was giving OutKast 4.5 mics, I keep in mind, I didn’t perceive it. I didn’t perceive the music. And I used to be the one who kinda raised some conditions up at The Supply, I’m gonna admit it. And I used to be mistaken. I feel it acquired to OutKast. And I feel that’s why André mentioned what he mentioned. I feel that was kinda directed towards me.
Benzino was referring to Andre 3000’s notorious speech on the 1995 Supply Awards. After OutKast received the coveted Finest New Rap Group Award, the Grammy winner — unfazed by the prevalent East Coast-West Coast rap beef that was casting a critical undertone to this and different awards ceremonies — strutted as much as the mic and mentioned, “But it surely’s like this although: I’m uninterested in people, — them closed-minded people. It’s like we acquired a demo tape and don’t no person wanna hear it. But it surely’s like this, the South acquired somethin’ to say. That’s all I acquired to say.”
“I feel I made a mistake and I shouldn’t have,” he continued. “Often, I bow out of the entire five-mic factor. The 5 mics was so robust that we let the journalists deal with that. The Supply was enterprise over right here and the journalists over right here. We might let the journalists deal with that; the writers, the photographers. It was a gaggle of them and they might sit in a room and the labels would ship the albums and they might price them. It was one of many important issues, the 5 mic system. One time, me and one in every of them acquired right into a debate about OutKast as a result of I didn’t perceive at the moment that music. And I used to be mistaken.”
Take a look at the clip from the GAUDS podcast beneath.
However Benzino didn’t simply restrict his no-holds-barred strategy to his previous dangerous conduct on now-defunct awards reveals.
Earlier within the episode, he spilled the beans on how he tried to forestall his daughter, Coi Leray, from smoking weed.
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Benzino defined that when his daughter wished to smoke some weed one time, he needed to make a judgment name in educating her a lesson.
“She’s about 15, 16, primarily,” he begins the clip. “And he or she’s smoking — I’m like, rattling, I don’t need her to smoke. So it’s like, man, I don’t wanna be the dangerous man.”
Daniels’s co-host, Tamira Smith, jumped in with a query of her personal. “What age did you begin smokin’?” she asks.
“13,” Benzino replies, earlier than Daniels interjects with: “However you need your youngsters to be higher than you!”
“You’re proper,” the previous Supply editor says. “It’s known as mandatory hypocrisy.”
