Icewear Vezzo describes meeting Eminem at 50 Cent’s show.
Icewear Vezzo sat down with Kid L for a new interview, where he also addresses meeting Eminem backstage at 50 Cent’s Final Lap Tour stop in Detroit a few months ago.
“It was like normal, organic,” he said. “50 had tapped in and asked me to come out at the show. He ain’t telling nobody Em was going to be there or nothing. Right before I got on stage I had seen him walking out. We literally bumped to each other and we just had quick conversation, Chopped it up. I told him it’s all love and it’s all respect. Obviously I know he done seen sh-t that I said and the sh-t all of us said.”
“So, I just wanted to kind of get him understand exactly what I meant. I was waiting for that moment to be able to express how I really felt… cause it was never no situation where we felt like dude owed us or anything. He don’t owe nobody sh-t. He done did what he had to do for Detroit. That’s why we got people like D12 and Royce 5’9″ and all that. It was just more of a situation like with me and Em, we grew up on the same exact block, when same exact high school. Not at the same time but still our backgrounds kind of similar to a certain extent.”
He continued, “I’ve been rapping for so long like… I’ve been fighting to staying in the game for years and I’ve been through hell and back and I know he heard of me, he heard all of us, so for me, every time I see one of the young ni–s coming up, I always try to reach out to them and I tap in, what’s up, what you need, a verse? a video? Whatever I can do, let me know, however I can enhance whatever it is you got going on, let me know, I see you, keep going, you doing what you need to do, and a lot of times that sh-t go far with a person. I know it went far for me, for people that I looked up to and respected on the rap side of things just to say that they see me, that s–t would mean a lot. So, I just felt like, not that we was entitled to that, I just thought it was right to do, it would have been a good gesture.”
Following his meeting, Vezzo shared a picture with Eminem with a caption: “Finally Eminem [handshake emoji] at the end of the day you still The biggest inspiration.”
