Eminem Racist?

[Savio]

The battle between Eminem and The Source magazine has escalated.

The magazine played an untitled song that features the Detroit rapper using a racial slur and disparaging black women, reports Newsday.

"Never date a black girl because blacks only want your money," Eminem raps in the song, which was recorded in 1993 and given to the magazine by three white Detroit area hip-hop fans.

"Black girls and white girls just don't mix because black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks," he says later.

The rapper doesn't dispute the authenticity of the tape, which sounds like a freestyle, off-the-cuff rap.

"Benzino, Dave Mays and The Source have had a vendetta against me, Shady Records and our artists for a long time," Eminem said in a statement, referring to The Source co-founders Ray "Benzino" Scott and Mays.

"The tape they played was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager. I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today."

The Source, however, doesn't take the song as foolishness. "These are racist remarks by someone who has the ability to influence millions of minds," said Kim Osorio, the magazine's editor.