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This is quite possibly the best spam I have ever received. Considering the fact that I earned it by being a member of the idm list at hyperreal, it's even funnier. The sender is one Don Robinson, who is evidently a brilliant motherfucker.

To: The Source Magazine
By signing this petition you are agreeing that Ray 'The 5 Mic Giver' Benzino is the worst rapper ever hold the mic. You agree that The Source Magazine is nothing but a tool for Ray Benzino and David Mays to promote their weak projects (RSO, Made Men, Ray-Ray). You also agree to no longer purchase/read The Source Magazine due to their latest stunts lacing the magazine with Benzino propaganda (Poster, The Last Word, Hip-Hop Quotable, 4 page promotion & article). You also sign and agree that the 5-Mic rating holds absolutely no credibility.

The Source editor Gotti says "Benzino and The Source are not interchangeable. The Source has always made it a point to keep Benzino's music career and the magazine business from interfering with each other."
Here is a comprehensive list of how The Source and Benzino's career are one in the same:
1994 - David Mays goes behind the back of the Source editors and inserts a three-! page stor
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here to sign petition

Please send this to any one who cares about Hip Hop as a Culture!!!

Your comments?

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

yes!!! i was just at the newsstand yesterday flipping through the current (Ja Rule cover) ish, which has a FREE POSTER INSIDE - a cartoon Benzino ripping off Eminem's head, no joke!

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, when was the Source Sound System feature discontinued? That always seemed to be a useful counterbalance to the seemingly politicized mic system and payola-cized features.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

The Sauce!

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but why would David Mays need to go behind the backs of the editors of the magazine he co-founded in order to promte his projects? Isn't self-promotion very much part of hip-hop culture?

Some day I will find my copy of the BMOC record that Mays and J*n Schecht*r did when they were high school rappers and sell it on eBay.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a bit of body missing from that spam, Tom.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I like how the email is very similar to a friend of mine.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

No, that's the best part- he lists one example and then quits. Dude is fucking GENIUS.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

unquestionably

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

He belongs on the J*y-Z/N*s thread, 1273 answers, three sequals and still going.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Benzino is the Source's Boz Scaggs

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Another nail in the coffin.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually the whole message is longer: http://www.petitiononline.com/benzino/

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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