It was all good... just a week ago.

Benzino could have been one of the most powerful men in Hip-Hop today. Instead...

He's a punchline. A cautionary tale. An Eminem victim.

Benzino was the co-founder of the Source magazine. Its been a while for some folks but that's like saying you co-wrote the Bible for Hip-Hop. Any information that was worth knowing was in that magazine. The 5 Mic scale was worth more than a platinum record at one point.

But then he got really greedy. He turned his magazine into his very own commercial and tried to push his own rap career through its pages. He used his influence to handle his petty rap beefs and it caught up to him.

Interscope is a beast! XXL just saw it first. Back in 2003 if you were on the wrong side of Em, Dre and 50... unless your name was Nelly or Jay-Z you had no shot of surviving. So between beefing with them and other questionable decsions (and by questionable I mean "black plague-iceberg to Titanic-like"), he managed to drive the whole magazine into the dirt. This led to his removal and subsequent exit from the game altogether.

I find it funny that the song is titled "back on my grizzy" because its two years old and this is the first time that i've ever heard of it. So it seems that "grizzy" didn't last too long. When youtube doesn't have anything on you in the last two years, you know its a wrap.

Sidenote: its kind of sad because you can tell that he really, really wants to be a rapper but its just never going to happen because he'll never get the respect... and he kinda looks like Jim Jones' 2nd cousin in this video.

Sometimes, you should just stay in your lane and keep it that way.