The feud between Eminem and The Source magazine escalated Tuesday night at a New York press conference at which the mag’s cofounders, David Mays and Raymond “Benzino” Scott, played a song that features the white Detroit rapper making a racial slur.
“Never date a black girl because blacks only want your money … black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks,” Slim Shady raps in the ’93 recording.
An incensed Scott, who has previously charged that the press lets Em get away with saying things that a black rapper would be attacked for, said Em “has to be held accountable” for the lyrics.
In a statement, Em said the song was an expression of teenage stupidity: “The tape they played today was something I made out of anger … 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.”
The mag’s February issue will be devoted to the song. In an unpleasant case of trying to have it both ways, the issue will include a CD of the recording.
Meanwhile, back in Michigan, Em’s ex-wife, Kim Mathers, 28, appeared in two Macomb County courts on bench warrants Tuesday after missing earlier court dates. She failed to appear Nov. 4 on cocaine possession charges, and was ordered to attend a Dec. 18 pretrial hearing on that. She also missed a Nov. 6 arraignment on charges of running a drug house; the judge set a Dec. 16 court date. She’s going to have a busy holiday season.

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