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10. Kim Osorio (Eminem vs. Benzino)

In the 1990’s, Kim Osorio made history by becoming the first female editor of the once-infalliable The Source magazine. During her tenure with the magazine — as she later revealed in her autobiography Straight from the Source — she had relationships with 50 Cent and Nas (not at the same time). To her credit, her relationships with these rappers didn’t affect her reviews of the rappers and/or their albums…but they became fodder for Eminem’s murderous diss tracks against Benzino, who has also made history by being the first struggle rapper in existence (for those too young to remember, he used his status as the magazine’s publisher to give his struggle tapes the once-coveted “5 Mics”).  This war single-handedly drove The Source into the financial — and cultural — graveyard, where it has struggled for its once-glory days ever since.

 

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