Xzibit
Appearances
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, I think when people feel as though they've been lied to or feel as though that they, you know, have been disenfranchised or, you know, that is definitely a feeling, a real feeling, you know, for a lot of people. Oh, of course.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, and I think that, you know, when you look at, when you have the conversation about slavery and the way it's introduced to us and led to us, I mean, you can see, I remember being in grade school and having no issues with,
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
people in you know or racial kind of bias or whatever but as soon as those lessons started you could kind of see the mental shift in where it was the pecking order was introduced and and pecking order of amongst whom the pecking order of the mentality of of the way the white kids started looking at the black kids in the class you know i'm saying and vice versa looking at them with
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, I mean, but there is what I'm saying is whether those things, whether that feeling is from there or it goes into guilt or whether it goes into something that you could tell that this was now being introduced. Right? And so now you look at the systems and the things that have been, you know, I guess what We have been dealing with it from different ranges. Racism does exist and all that stuff.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But I definitely know from grade school on to the introduction of it. And then when you get into being an adult and you see how the disparaging differences between... being able to, you know, get alone or not get alone or how you identified or singled out. That's a real thing. You know what I'm saying? So I think that, especially in this climate.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah. America got a real wake-up call where they thought DEI meant black people.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, I mean, I think it was funny, but, you know, like, when they started attacking the whole DEI thing— you know, black people weren't like the last level of that. It affected so many people before it got to black people.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Well, I mean, in those settings, what they're talking about is, you know, primarily, you know, it was like women in the workplace. Oh, women.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I'm not saying that. But I mean, I just think that people were trying to generalize and then it became another code word to talk about black people. Oh, it is that too. Yeah, no, it turned into that for sure. But it wasn't quite the silver bullet that they were thinking it was. Well, they just got rid of it like three weeks ago.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I think the uneducated people were thinking, like, you know, J-Rock from, you know, Compton is working at NASA. You know what I'm saying? Like, they just ushered him in. No, no.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I just have the regular shit. I don't really change much on it.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, I just really don't do a lot on there, man. I just get phone calls.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
When I started my records, I was kicking and screaming. I was very angry, so I was kind of... You'll hear it in your voice. Yeah, I found a safe place, you know, for me to kick and scream and not hurt myself and others, you know? And so that was like my therapy almost. So hip-hop, I feel, saved my life. But, you know, I was 19, 20 years old making those records. So now being able to...
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Well, I have something for you. Yes. I have a store as well. Oh. I have actually two stores. Yeah. One in Bel Air and one in Chatsworth. Bel Air. Yes. Excuse me. Exhibits West Coast cannabis. So look. So here are. Okay. Well. Yeah. Here are. Here's some shirts. Great. Yes.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
you know, go back and listen, you could tell the environments in the... You could tell when I got paid. You could tell when I, you know, was frustrated. You could tell when things got hard. You could tell when things were great. You could hear it in the music. You can in your voice. Right.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I think, you know, like now... I still like aggressive music. I still deliver aggressive, but I found my voice in the sense of not the tone or the projection of it, but what I'm supposed to be saying and how I'm supposed to be saying it. I was very doubtful. I had a lot of doubt in my early records. I didn't know. I was trying to compete. I didn't really know what I was going for.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I just knew the kind of music I liked to make, and I would just say what I thought sounded good. But now when you speak with purpose and you speak with drive and you speak with conviction, it feels different. It lands different. It feels good saying it.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, I mean, your ears don't lie to you, you know? I mean, and music touches your soul. And, you know, so the frequencies that Dre knows and that he produces with and he, you know, pushes through the board are extraordinary. You know, when Chronic first came out, you never heard a record sound like that.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And then it became this standard that people were trying to figure out how you made everything sound the way it was and everything. You could hear all these different sounds, but each sound had a specific place. It's crazy.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, I was dad at 19. My oldest was born at 19. It took you so long.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, and then, you know. Is that a boy or a girl? It's a boy.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It's still very much father-son. Good. Good. And I always tell him, you know. when he was old enough, that we always grew up together. You know, we kind of grew up together. My father was a military guy.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah. So he was in the Marine Corps. Hello. Yeah, and he did two tours in Vietnam. And then he met my mother at Michigan State.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah. Yeah, and then here we come, me and my sister. So, you know, my mother passed when I was nine. She passed. And then my dad kind of, You know, he got remarried, but it didn't really work. But for the most part, my dad raised me. So, you know, he was.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Like a single dad? Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, no, he was married, but then it kind of broke up. And then, you know, so it was me and him for a while. I bet he was strict. He was strict, but he was also, you know, doing the best he could. with what he had.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I was actually, somebody sent it to me, and it was the line where you said, in the words of exhibit, I might leave in a body bag, but never in cuffs.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, that was the standard. you know, respect, you know, being able to conduct yourself with some self-discipline. Right. You know, just a moral compass that a lot of my friends didn't have. Right. And so, it was dope to be able to have that relationship with him. It was kind of tight when we were kids. But then,
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
when I started making music and started doing shit with my life and, you know, he was, he was worried about me, but we turned it around and did something dope, you know? So we had a really great relationship up until he passed.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And so I have that relationship with my, with my, you know, there's always been boundaries and respect and, you know, I wasn't as hard on him as my dad was on me, but those principles are still there. And I believe that, you know, it had to happen that way.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You know, he actually... was doing music for a while. He still does music, but I told him he can't be a starving artist. You have to work. until your dreams come true. You can't just chase your dreams and just wing it. You know, you have to do something. Right. And so because my kids aren't built like me. I was out there crash test dummy, you know, in the street.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And so I don't want that for my children. I don't want them to experience that. I don't want them to have any parts of that. So they're going to have different challenges. And I welcome those, you know. Yeah, because they're going to be nothing like the ones I had.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, they come from the immediate gratification, entitlement feeling. And I always tell my boys, my biggest fear is I leave this planet without you all knowing how to provide for yourself.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So you'll always be looking for a handout or help or a push, or I want you to be driven and I want you to follow through on things, you know, whether I help you or not, my, my job is to make sure that you know how to get up, lace up your fucking boots and get kicking at the day. And, you know, I try to show that by example, you know,
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And there's other ways I get around it, but I try to get the message where it's not forced. So does that point of view come through on the record? Absolutely. Really? Absolutely. I think there's a lot of mindless music out now. There's a lot of fluff. Always has been. Always has been. But now I think there's a direct concentration of what's focused on and what's available and accessible.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
When you go from people physically putting on clothes and jumping in their cars and going to a record store and picking up an album, having that physical experience with it has been changed. So now, the scrolling, the able to pick through a record and really not have to leave whatever you're doing, you can get any record in the world.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And then it's all boiled down to this, you know, these couple streaming services squeezing out the mom and pop, squeezing out that experience. So now, you know, you're boiled down to what's happening on your phone and a live experience. And, you know, it's... It's sad to the attention span of the audience is a lot shorter. And during the live show, it's also the phone.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So if we run out of what you brought, then we have plenty. There's a lot. Well, if we run out of what even just I bought, we'll be dead.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, they're holding up the phone, not even having the experience that they paid to see.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Not that one. So I've kind of watched this thing go from like a landline with a rotary phone, and then it turned into the handheld, and then it turned into this... Now, do you remember the brick mobile phones?
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Right, the flip phones, the pagers. This thing has literally unplugged itself from the wall, crawled over to us. And fucking connected to us. And right now it's a physical connection because we can put it up and put it down. But now that thing is on. When it jumped to the Apple Watch, I was like, oh, they got us.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah. We're talking about the chip, the process, the processor. Just...
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, that's another thing, the watching the glasses. They're on us now.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Because you've given up the ability and the choice to use your memory. Instead, this is better. I don't have to remember it. Now I could just have it forever.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Well, the thing is now, attention is the new drug, in my opinion. You're right. Attention is the new drug, and people want to be judged by their experiences and what they portray on Facebook and TikTok and IG. It's pretty interesting to see people have... this life that they can project to the world. And then, you know, it may be a total different thing, but everybody wants to project the TV show.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It's like everybody's on a Truman Show now. You know? Like, literally. Like, people get up to post themselves and show. I can't do that. I don't... Even though I do music and I go do things for entertainment, I don't like the attention.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
They don't. Like, I want to say goodnight and then go in the door and, like, not have it on, you know? Take off my super suit.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Hell yeah. Everything needs to be projected. I hate that. I think it's weird. I don't want to know. You know what I'm saying? Like people splurting all kinds of personal shit on me. I hate that. You know what I'm saying? Do you think your kids have been captured by that mentality? I think... I think my youngest spends a lot of time on that kind of stuff.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And, you know, but his whole friends circle are in that. And, you know, it's tough. It's tough because I know there's going to be a lot of deprogramming that needs to happen once he grows out of that, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think you're the man to do it.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Oh, take a big hit on that one. You're not. You are. I am in the middle, or no, I'm at the end of a very rough divorce.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It's rough. It's been going on for four years. That is a long time. Yeah, you don't get to. I don't think you really know somebody until you divorce them. What a great line.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And, you know, I think, you know, when things go out the window and boundaries are crossed and, you know, saying things you can't come back from, you know, it's... It sucks, you know what I'm saying? I don't know if I'd ever get married again, you know? I am with someone, but not married, you know? Right. I think that's safe to say. You know, if you fuck with me, you'll be in the wheel.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But that's who you were referring to, right? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, the nightclub shooting where Sean and what's that? I call it a bathroom misunderstanding.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Well, okay, so look. Look, I was invited, and I was there for like an hour, and then I had to leave. Because? Well, I just, you know, it was, I think it was the person I came with. So, you know, it didn't work out. It ended up being a good thing. We were in and out of there, so.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I think those, I mean, you got to think back in the day, um, You know, they had sativas and whatnot when they started crossbreeding them. And then, remember, it was just stress and chronic. That was the only two types of weed, especially out here in California. Then the kush came along, and that was the first one with a name. And then it became all these other things.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I think that when people started growing indoors and really cultivating and growing, that became like the—
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
boutique that became like the the top tier and so so the press weed that was getting sent over from you know wherever it was coming from um it just it seeks to is the the taste that people didn't want that i was stressed that we don't want that you know so eventually it phased out because now the more they produce the indoor and people that was up for demand it kind of squeezed out the bullshit strains all right well there was nothing bullshit about acapulco gold
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It was like, oh. I never got into that. It didn't work for me.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Maybe somebody gave me some bullshit because I just never had a great experience with it.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So you got to watch Edith and Archie go back and forth.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And I never made a demo. When I came here, I was born in Detroit. I lived in New Mexico, Albuquerque, for like seven years. Wow. And then from there, I came to California. And when I got to California, that's where I first met King T and the Alcoholics. They were the first people I met with record deals. Wait, who? King T and the Alcoholics. Oh, okay. Not actual alcoholics.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, wasted a lot of time, resources. Oh, wasted time, bad decisions. Oh, horrible decisions. But those are the best ones, though. You know what I'm saying? Especially if you can learn from them. I don't know what you're saying. Every choice comes with an invoice, right? Great line.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, so we have to understand that my dad used to tell me you have to suffer the natural and logical consequences for your behavior. And I knew some of these things already. I wasn't supposed to be doing. But it was like, I'm going to try it because I might have a different outcome. He don't know what he's talking about. After about 150,000 of those, oh, he knew what he was talking about.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You kind of like fall into, you know, a different type of mind state. Now, when you first touch money, like when I first touched money, I did all the things that I... Exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to do. We ain't got a car. We ain't got a watch. We ain't got a chain. We ain't got this and that. For the... For the appearance of success, without actually being in the black, you know?
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Right. Yeah, and so... It was a learning curve. Everybody does it. Everybody does it.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You know what I'm saying? I may have done ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I may have too.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You know, people understand. Like, that shit is great. It's a great feeling.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I've actually been kind of unscathed. As a hip-hop artist, there can be a lot of crash landings. You know, but I've relatively been... you know, really true to character and that speaks volumes and allows me to walk in a lot of doors. And I haven't had a lot of that kind of stuff.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Once I'd left that stuff behind as a kid and I got into a professional setting, some people don't know how to read the room. I, yeah, yeah. They sure don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was able to understand that my environment was changing.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
These people don't, you know, you can't, we're not here on the block. You know what I'm saying? Like, we're here to do business and make sure that we are building something.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It's always going to be... You party with your friends to this. This is what you saw. This was on your ringtone. This is what you grew up with. This is part of your DNA. And I get that. But I also, when making this record, I wanted to not only... have a transfer of information. These are the ideals. These are the self-discipline. These are the motives.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
These are the way I operate, the moral compass I use. All this is kind of built into the album, calling it Kingmaker. So now I'm handing this over to people who are willing to listen. And now you can do with it what you will. And that's the image behind Kingmaker. It has nothing to do with me sitting on the throne or feeling like a royalty or Like, this is, like, serious, yeah.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Connected to the culture in a way that is genuine. And look, dude, I watch your show. I appreciate it. And I enjoy your takes. I enjoy the wittiness and you see the forest for the trees and you tell it how it is. And I think we miss a lot of that in today's perfectly brewed system of stewed shit. You know what I'm saying? So I think it's dope that you continue on.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But that's what I'm saying. I think the listener is who I'm trying to empower. Right. So that's why I said, here are the tools, you know. I don't want to be king, you know. I want to be a soldier. Soldiers kill kings.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
That is a super, that is such a super look at, the perception that, that, that, that is from where you're at. Right. Okay. So I'm trying to, I'm trying to figure out how to explain this to you in the, in the best way you can understand it. Okay. Okay. So, so, um, there's, uh, Drake is, is, is, is, um, the empire. Okay. And, and Kendrick is Luke Skywalker. Okay.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, I wouldn't say softer. I think that... Well... I would explain it like this. Drake was, for a decade, if not more... arguably the largest selling... Oh, yes.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You know, his presence... His presence in the music, in the world, in... You know, it was huge.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, he brought a lot of, he made a lot of records for women and, you know, those ballads and keeping that fan base young and energized and, you know, like he became really, you know, a different guy from the way he started, right? Yeah.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I have no idea about what he's doing with his boy. No, that don't sound right. But I don't know what he's doing.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
There's a clip of him talking to a 14-year-old girl on the stage, and that was suspect. On the stage? On the stage. And we hear what he's saying? Yeah, you hear what he's saying. What is it? Come back to my room? No, I wouldn't say that. Well, we heard it. What is it? I don't remember what it is. I just know that's where that comes from, that clip.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It was something that made your eyebrow raise. Okay. Right? And then it was talking to the Millie Bobby Brown girl about relationship shit. And, you know, it's just, you know, and people like to run with things, right?
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So really it started from, you know, a feature, you know, and we'll probably never know when Jabs started or whatever, but it boiled over into this thing where it became this David and Goliath moment. And what you're seeing and why people are celebrating it so much is that this big, huge machine And this so-called rapper from Compton that, yes, he has success, but he's not as big as us.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, but hardly David. Right. Well, I mean, compared to the way you view things. Sure, right. And the perception. Again, this is all about opinion.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But it just seemed. Yeah, but it blew up and it turned into something that, you know.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I'm not kidding. Hold on. Hold on. No, I understand. Pedophile? No, listen. Listen. This is a rap battle. Yes. This is not, you know, testimony or deposition. You know what I'm saying? This is a fucking rap battle. I'm going to talk about your mama. I'm going to talk about your daddy. I'm going to talk about your children. I'm going to talk about everything.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I'm going to talk about your grandma's wooden leg. I'm going to talk about your missing teeth. Right. It's all game, right? So, you know, like, we're pretty... savvy enough to say, like, if there was something weird going on, then there would definitely be people that would come forward and testify and do that, and then people would be charged for that.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But when you're playing the dozens, and I give you one that hurts your feelings, you know, don't be the guy who wants to fight because I got a good joke. You understand what I'm saying? That's quite a joke.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It's... I think when you're in a rap battle, the option is to either bow out gracefully or to come back with something harder. Right?
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But he's basically saying that you did something for someone else that you used to do for me, and here's how I know. Say that again? You're doing the same thing that you're doing for him you used to do for me, and I'm blowing a whistle now. I see. Yeah. You're boosting this and boosting that. What I mean, I think that's not true. Like, the world loves that song, you know?
Club Random with Bill Maher
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It's just... Like, people get into it all the time in hip-hop, but that was significant because now we have... This thing, this thing in hip hop, it was like, you know, is it skill over success? Is it the money versus the culture? These things have never had the opportunity to clash because it was always overshadowed by the profit, by the money that was made.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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So it didn't matter what your opinion was, but now we have somebody that really doesn't you know, live in the same lane. They're big. But is it culture versus, you know, you know, capitalism? Is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it real hip hop, quote unquote, versus commercial hip hop? Or it was like a heavyweight fight.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Don't you think? I think the people that tune into, you know, part two and part three of different boxing matches, as long as, if they keep going at each other, what I'm pretty sure to be subliminally and on and on and on, you know, and... And hopefully, you know, it stays entertainment, you know, whatever lawsuit, whatever, that's new territory for me. I've never seen that before.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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I'm anxious to see how it pans out as well, you know, but why introduce that to the, to the gladiator arena, you know, like, Like, come on, dude. People do like gladiators.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, yeah. Why are they remaking all of the classics? Like, I would love to see something new. But then, you know, you see it on Netflix, and same thing happened to music when CDs were bootlegged.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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But you can never, ever take my place. Yes. Yes, I remember that. Because right now, hip-hop is hollow with no substance. X-Men with the roughness can suck some time. And many of us, the way we act, we even lost our minds. Yes, I remember that.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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I feel like I'm a hip-hop purist. And when I say purist, I mean I believe in the five elements of hip-hop. I believe in... Graffiti, breakdancing, MC, DJ.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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There's one more. There's one more. I'm tripping. Hot. Yeah, fashion.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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Weed is pretty important. Absolutely. It's part of the culture. But weed has been part of music forever, right? Like, even the blues, the jazz singers. Oh, sure. Like, yeah, they all had a relationship.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But they used to do cocaine freely back then. You know what I'm saying? It was like medicine.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, they go hand in hand. And music has always been there.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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No, I think being able to... moderate, and yeah, I used to party a lot when I was younger. Oh, so did I. Yeah, but I mean, that's kind of like where the self-discipline thing comes back in. You know, it's first of all, getting up there in age. I don't bounce back the way I used to. It doesn't feel the same. And there's no reason to really drink unless you have a reason to celebrate.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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Yeah, I was running into brick walls with my fucking body. You know what I'm saying? Literally, you mean? No, no. I'm just saying it was some long nights, days that ran into each other.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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But I'm not going to do it to get people to click on my fucking TikTok. I'm not going to injure myself. The Idiocracy movie is coming to life more and more and more and more every fucking day.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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Ah, Terry Crews. Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Oh, okay, okay, so look, so look. He's the president. Come on, Joe. I'm stoned, too, because I think... Tiny was the president in a different movie.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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I like to watch... There's a lot of good series, but then when I want to go find a movie, I watch, like, You know, the Indiana Jones franchise. I liked Spielberg. I liked that era of directing, you know. Yeah. And the way those films, like in the Indiana Jones series for sure. I watched a lot of that when I was growing up. The lighting, the story.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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It felt like you're watching a hi-fi version of the old way things, you know, that time stamp, you know.
Club Random with Bill Maher
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Okay, so I got two great stories about that film. Really? First of all, that was... It's entertaining. Yeah. It is. That was... My father went with me to London to shoot that. We shot that at George Lucas Studios. Oh, really? Right. Right. And it was dope because that was the first time he got to travel with me to a movie set. So I'll always remember this.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
But also because we were filming on a George Lucas set, it was like somebody came over, wanted to take a picture with me, and brought me a lightsaber. And I still have that fucking thing. You know what I'm saying? It's like one of the practice ones that they use. Even I know what that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Okay, so first day of shooting, I am in a scene, and it's the scene where I'm supposed to be beating Jennifer Aniston up on the couch. Right? And... And, you know, it's the first scene of the day. Wow. And Brad Pitt is in the room. Oh, they were married. Yeah, he was in the room. Oh, wow. And... I'm tense just listening to the story. And so, and action.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I'm like... But you must have rehearsed it. Yeah, no, it's fucking Jennifer Aniston. So, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, bro, I'm not... But you did rehearse it. Yeah, yeah, we did rehearse it, but it was like, you know, I was, you know... Now they have intimacy coordinators, but... No, but then the story gets a little better. So then the director comes over to me and says...
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You know, she's full on crying. And like, this is like going against all, I'm like, I'm fresh into acting, you okay? Like this ain't something I'm doing all the time, right? And so like, as I'm doing these movies, like this is a strange thing for me. So now the director comes over and she looks up to me, she has tears, she's full on in, right? She says, it's okay.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I'm like, oh, fuck. I'm like, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. You know what I'm saying? And so he's like, okay, yes, you bitch. You must say bitch. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, oh, shit. Okay, let me channel my inner Ike.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So we do the scene, and then, you know, that's what's in the movie. And then it was like, that was my first day on that set.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
So I'll never forget it. The second thing I remember about that movie was my dad was on set one day, and it was the scene where we had to get in a fight at the end of the movie. We were running up and down the halls, and we fight in the room. And then Clive Owen pulls out a gun and shoots me, like, at the end of the fight. Okay. And so I have these squibs on, like a chest full of squibs.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
It takes about, you know, 40 minutes to set these things up. So quiet on the set. First shot. Everybody's pumped. Everybody's ready to go. Okay. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Hit the door. We're fighting. Do, do, do, do, do. Pulls a gun. I'm on the ground. Dead silence. My dad.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
And so my dad was like, oh, it's like, dad, you cannot. This is going to talk to your father. So he yelled at the screen before it was even on the screen. Yes. Oh, how unfortunate. You know, I'm still in it. So I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, Dad. But did it ruin the take?
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Do you live in this area? I go back and forth between Vegas and here.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Oh, just, you know, just needed the space, really. You know, just getting away from. But you could have picked San Bernardino. Well, it was better to go all the way to Vegas.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, no, no. I've had my time on the Strip. I mean, it is. I've had my time on the Strip. Don't get it wrong. It's fun. Well, yeah, but I mean, it's time to work.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No problem. No problem. We're going to hit the strip. Let's do it. All right. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it, man. Thank you so much. All right.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I want to come by. I can make that happen. I want to come by the woods, man. All right.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, I do. Oh, you do? Yeah, I do. But, okay, so here's the thing. So... I'd say maybe eight, nine months ago, I was 268 pounds.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You look way down from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I started eating clean, getting rest, going to the gym, doing all that stuff. Just was really not liking what I was seeing. And so now I'm down to 220, and now I'm just drinking when there's a
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, for sure. You know, when you're my age, I'm a 70. Well, I mean, I'm with you, Bill, so I'm going to take a shot eventually. Great. Yeah. I'm going to take a shot eventually.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I haven't put out a record since 2012. So it's important for me to go into this knowing that I have to reintroduce myself to my fans and people who may not even know I do music.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Right. Or people that just know me from doing film and TV. So Kingmaker is the title of the record. And I really feel there's 20 songs on there. We've been rolling it out. I partnered with Conor McGregor. He started a record label. Conor McGregor? Yes.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, but I think it was attractive to me because we're the first. There's no level of expectation. He is, you know, there's no real way.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
No, he's not rapping. Oh. Yeah, he just, you know, he's got a group of people around him that do his investments and whatnot, and starting a label was something he really wanted to do. So he ended up, you know, getting his group together, pulled the executives in. Yeah. And so we came in. We're the first ones out. I think he signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
There's a diverse genre of music on the label. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Unapologetically. And I think that, you know, he's, you know, whether you love him or hate him, he shoots over people's heads. And I think that's what we needed to kind of get past the algorithm of, you know, ageism isn't hip hop. you get past a certain age and then they tell you, you don't belong. It's everywhere. Right.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Music is like, you know, especially in hip hop and you know, they say they describe it as a young man's sport, but we're the first of our kind. Hip hop just turned, you know, 50 some years old. So now, you know, and, and so, um, we're now crossing this threshold from the, the, the last shift change was going from cassette and vinyl into CDs and now streams. And so we've,
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
transcended into this new age, and we're the first to actually experience this. So now it's time to figure out where do we land? What do we rap about? What do we talk about? I don't talk about any of the things that I've been doing in my 20s, so I have to make it so that it's comfortable in my skin.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
I mean, bitch, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Choke me, spank me, pull my hair. Like, that's one of my biggest songs.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
You don't get to, I don't think you really know somebody until you divorce them. What a great line. Yeah, the nightclub shooting where Sean was. I call it a bathroom misunderstanding.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Xzibit | Club Random
Yeah, I'm saying. I think even with that conversation, I think that the after effects of – leading with slavery, especially in grade school and the way we're taught and the way it was defined and the narrative was changed.