TWO THINGS Eminem didn't know in 1993:
_ How to write a decent rhyme.
_ The fact it's not a good idea to insult black people while co-opting their culture.
Here's an excerpt from a really lousy, and racially insensitive track Slim Shady recorded a decade ago:
Black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks
Never date a black girl because blacks only want your money
and that s--- ain't funny
Black girls and white girls just don't mix
because black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks
The song, available at thesource.com, was played Tuesday night at a press conference called by the hip-hop magazine the Source, which said it had obtained the recording from "three white kids from Detroit."
Em has admitted recording the track after breaking up with a black girlfriend, reports the New York Daily News's Rush & Molloy.
Source honcho Raymond "Benzino" Scott says the rapper should be "held accountable" for the lyrics. Eminem, who once tried to fight Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and doesn't take criticism too well, promptly fired back, saying the mag has had "a vendetta against me, Shady Records and our artists for a long time."
"The tape was . . . made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today," Em says.
Not to worry, people will find it foolish.
Girl gone wild
British beauty Naomi Campbell's been sued for beating her personal assistant. Again.
Simone Craig, 29, alleges the 33-year-old supermodel threw a phone at her, hit her and held her captive at Beverly Hills hotel L'Hermitage two years ago.
In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty to an assault charge for beating assistant Georgina Galanis while making a film in Canada in 1998. Under an agreement with the prosecution, Campbell expressed remorse and was released without punishment or a criminal record.
An attorney for Campbell said she denies the latest charges.
Girls not wild enough
In case you're on the fence about whether to see "Gothika," opening tomorrow, consider this unfortunate news: Prudish stars Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz nixed a nude group shower scene at the last minute.
Despite Berry having previously disrobed in both "Swordfish" and "Monster's Ball," and Cruz in "Vanilla Sky" and its Spanish inspiration "Abre Los Ojos," the spoilsports chose to wear underwear for the soaking.
