Xzibit talks about telling Eminem to perform ‘Kill You’ Twice on the “Up In Smoke” Tour.
Xzibit recently sat down with HipHopDx where he talked about the “Up In Smoke Tour” among other things including the time when Eminem was banned from performing his controversial track “Kill You“. The conversation brought back even more memories for Xzibit, who spent the summer of 2000 on tour with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube.
HipHopDx asked Xzibit about the time When Eminem wasn’t allowed to perform “Kill You” but he asked him to perform it twice. “They were f**king with Marshall back in the day like a lot of you know activist groups,” said Xzibit. “They were protesting outside the concerts, they were you know like really trying to make it hard for my guy and they made him the poster child of everything wrong with America and it was like really there’s a lot of other shit before Eminem that you guys can f**k with you know what I’m saying. That was in Toronto, and they really f**k with us in Detroit like they didn’t want us to show the film before the beginning of Dre set.”
“Everybody was moving in the same direction, we were around each other a lot. Paul Rosenberg – shout out to Paul, shout out to everybody at Goliath artist management – they put it together. It’s like we all were pushing toward the same goal and that’s how all that music, all that movement and that solidarity that happened at that time was pushing towards supporting Dr. Dre and Dr.Dre’s “2001”. And everybody knew how big that shit was gonna feel when it came out. So everybody was trying to work together to make sure that after we get off that tour we can keep it going. That’s what wrestlers came from and all them other songs and records, and D12. Phenomenal.”
The tour stop in Toronto was horrible, according to Xzibit, but Detroit gave the Canadian metropolis a fight for its money “It’s like, first amendment rights. These people are coming to the concert because you think they haven’t heard the records already?” the rapper asked.
Watch the interview below
