Newsmakers

Newsweek, December, 2003 by N'Gai Croal, Mark Starr

Sounds Shady, Slim: Did the real Slim Shady just stand up? Last week David Mays and Raymond (Benzino) Scott of The Source magazine, once considered the bible of hip-hop, held a press conference to play what they claimed were a pair of unreleased Eminem recordings from 1993, on one of which he verbally attacks a black ex-girlfriend. "All the girls that I like to bone/Have the big butts, no they don't/ 'Cause I don't like that n----r s--t/I'm just here to make a bigger hit." And: "I'll get straight to the point, black girls are bitches/that's why I'ma tell ya you better pull up your britches."

Until last week, this conspicuously white rapper in a conspicuously black medium was known for his scrupulousness about race--the third rail of hip-hop. And the imprimatur of legendary...

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