Rapper Benzino says it’s his selection to not observe his daughter, fellow artist Coi Leray, on Instagram. Benzino was as soon as a chart-topping rapper within the trade, however now his solely daughter appears to be carrying the torch of their household.
The 58-year-old revealed his causes for not following Leray throughout an look on the “No Jumper” podcast on Jan. 26. He revealed that he wished to “visualize” her as his daughter as an alternative of seeing movies of her twerking in a bikini on the platform.
“I can’t observe her Instagram,” he mentioned. “As a result of then, you understand, she could possibly be in a bikini, you understand, twerking or one thing. However, I like her to demise, you understand what I’m saying? So I would like to have the ability to … visualize her the best way I need to visualize her, as my daughter, not essentially as an artist or as Coi. I don’t need to visualize my daughter like that.”
Followers reacted to Benzino’s feedback on Instagram, and plenty of agreed with the rapper not eager to see his daughter in a sure mild.
“Nice reply. The sensible of us will get it. No father desires to see his daughter half-naked. Good for you no neck,” wrote one fan. “I imply I don’t blame him he don’t wanna see her shaking that lil mcmuffin all on the gram,” added one other. One fan replied, “Nice perspective! And wholesome boundaries.”
Benzino, who has spoken out earlier than about his well-known daughter, mentioned it’s been a “problem” watching his daughter as she creates her personal footing as a rapper. However he not needs to travel together with his solely daughter on-line.
“If I had a handbook on being a father I might give it out free of charge,” he defined. “However I don’t.”
He beforehand criticized 51-year-old rapper Busta Rhymes for working with Leray and having her seem “half-naked” in his music video for “LUXURY LIFE.” Leray will be seen sporting small shorts that confirmed her buttocks and a bedazzled bikini with a fur coat within the video, and her father wasn’t happy.
“The entire Busta Rhymes collaboration like he ought to’ve reached out to me,” Benzino mentioned. “You don’t do no video with my daughter half-naked and, you understand you a grown a– f—–g man. You must’ve reached out to me and mentioned one thing. However it’s what it’s. she’s grown she will do what she need. However I wasn’t with that.”
The “Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta” alum additionally had a public dispute with the “No Extra Panties” rapper after she known as him out for allegedly not supporting her and her mom throughout her youth. Throughout an interview final June with Angie Martinez, Leray mentioned her mom struggled to lift her whereas Benzino was dwelling nicely.
The “Blick Blick” artist claimed that she skilled homelessness and slept in a automobile. In her 2022 hit single, “No Extra Events,” Leray referenced her relationship together with her father within the lyrics as she raps, “My daddy let me down, however I promise you I received’t let up.”
“We hit all-time low, to the purpose the place I keep in mind coming residence from college and there’s eviction discover on our door,” she informed Martinez. “I might see my father on-line or no matter. Even when he would do ‘Love and Hip Hop.’ The way you get to dwell this life, and we over right here struggling?”
Benzino later claimed that Leray lied in the course of the interview, saying she by no means slept in a automobile that he knew about. “I used to be together with her mom till she was 9. Then I had her from 9 to 16, 5 months out the yr, she be with me. She lived me with me twice. She lived right here in Atlanta with me and she or he went to Campbell Excessive Faculty,” he mentioned.
Leray clapped again and mentioned she wouldn’t converse to her father once more whereas including, “I don’t wanna be your clout child.” Benzino responded by saying that he made her, not the opposite manner round. “You couldn’t stroll in my f—g Adidas for an hour,” he added. “How will you get on right here and say that you simply’re a clout, that I’m utilizing you for clout? Coi. Coi. Your first document was disrespecting me.”
Leray additionally known as out her dad for asking her for cash, and he in flip known as out Martinez for additional stirring up drama between the 2.
