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Raymond Scott is angry.

Actually, he's more than angry, he's furious.

He's got some rage boiling up inside of him that he's ready to unload to the hip-hop masses, that is, if folks bite on his indie project, "Arch Nemesis," which hit stores last week.

Scott, better known as rapper Benzino, has a vendetta against rapper Eminem and he won't stop talking - or rapping - about it.

"It's a situation where I feel like it's a double standard being used in hip-hop. The people that are handling him are using the fact that he's a white rapper to monopolize the game so to speak. I just spoke up on it as an artist. Not as somebody from the Source. I'm an artist first. I made a couple of songs on a mix tape and went at him," Benzino says.

"This guy goes at people all the time. But I guess I struck a nerve and he came back at me. His stuff was more personal. I had a real motive for what I did and why I did it. I feel like hip-hop as it's growing, is in danger of being stripped from us like how rock music was. I'm just being that voice of the street, that's all."

For those who missed the saga of the last year or so, here's a quick catch-up: Benzino is best friends with David Mays, and both publish the Source magazine, which for years has been the place to go for everything hip-hop. The magazine was the first national publication to give Eminem props. In 1998, it featured him in its influential "Unsigned " section. After Interscope Records signed him, the magazine nominated him for multiple Source awards and championed him as the first white hip-hop artist of significance.

Then something changed. Through underground mix tapes and Benzino's own CD, he traded barbs with Eminem and his label, Shady Records, for most of 2003. Scott called Eminem a "rap David Duke, a rap Hitler, a culture-stealer," and was pictured in the Source holding Em's head. Eminem called Benzino the "softest, fakest wanna-be gangster in New York."

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