Benzino made an appearance on Ray Daniels’ ‘Goats and Underdogs’ podcast and revealed information about André 3000’s confrontational speech at the 1995 Source Awards. According to Benzino’s 3 Stacks’ speech was meant for him.
“The reason why André 3000 said what he did, I’ma have to tell y’all this story. When they was giving OutKast 4.5 mics, I remember, I didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand the music,” said Benzino. He continued saying, “And I was the one who kinda raised some situations up at ‘The Source,’ I’m gonna admit it. And I was wrong. I think it got to OutKast. And I think that’s why André said what he said. I think that was kinda directed toward me.”
Benzino explained that he usually never got involved in the five-mic rating process that was upheld by The Source and handled by journalists and photographers. Benzino said “It was a group of them and they would sit in a room and the labels would send the albums and they would rate them. It was one of the main things, the five-mic system. One time, me and one of them got into a debate about OutKast because I didn’t understand at that time that music. And I was wrong.” Watch above.
source: GAUDS Podcast
