Benzino believes that rap icon Busta Rhymes broke the man code by filming a video with his “half-naked” daughter, Coi Leray.
The video that Benzino is referring to is the “Luxury Life” movie short that Busta shot with Leray on “Luxury Life” for his upcoming album Blockbusta.
“The whole Busta Rhymes collaboration — like, he should have reached out to me,” he said on Instagram Live. “You don’t do no video with my daughter half-naked. You a grown a– f—–g man.
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“He should have reached out to me and said something,” Benzino continued. “But it is what is. She’s grown, she can do what she want. But I wasn’t with that. All I can do is have my opinions from afar. Once they reach a certain age, it doesn’t matter what I think.”
The former co-owner of The Source magazine laments how social media has contaminated the relations with his daughter.
“The internet is definitely killing the family communication, the family bond.”
During the Instagram story, Benzino also snapped at renowned radio host Angie Martinez for allegedly manipulating his daughter to produce a hot interview
“I know Angie Martinez doesn’t like me. I don’t like her either,” he said. “But to sit there and interview my daughter and manipulate the situation, she knew what she was doing. I’m not gon’ call her any names or anything. That was the old Zino, so I’m gonna try to keep it respectful. But she was wrong.
“She’s a woman too, an older woman, so she shoulda knew better. You don’t play with people’s kids. And that’s what’s so disheartening about this.”
Benzino admits he was taken aback by some of the harsh things that his daughter said about him in the interview.
“I didn’t know Coi felt this way about me and it hurts. It hurts bad,” he said. “You know, y’all are just seeing the surface of it on the internet. But in real life, s— ain’t cool. Wish it never happened. I know she got nominated for a Grammy and Lord knows I want her to win it.”
