In this episode, Bill goes deep with legendary rapper, producer, and entrepreneur Xzibit—shedding light on his childhood as a military brat, the discipline that shaped his hip hop journey, and the inspiration behind his new album, “Kingmaker.” Xzibit opens up about chasing creative ambition while staying true to himself in an ever-shifting hip hop landscape, shares thoughts on social media’s addictive pull, and hip hop rivalries. He also reveals the hilarious story behind his fight scene with Jennifer Aniston in “Derailed,” complete with Brad Pitt lurking awkwardly in the background, and Bill recounts how one of Xzibit’s iconic lyrics made its way onto “Politically Correct” —a testament to Xzibit’s impact on both music and pop culture. Go to https://www.RadioactiveMedia.com or text RANDOM at 511511 to save up to 50%, today! Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/RANDOM to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use RANDOM Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/random #rulapod #ad Follow Club Random on IG: @ClubRandomPodcast Follow Bill on IG: @BillMaher Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Watch Club Random on YouTube: https://bit.ly/ClubRandomYouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Xzibit’s childhood like as a military brat?
Oh, wow. Well, I will wear this proudly.
I will.
Is it more merch? I think I told you once that I Used your... Yes. You know what I'm talking about.
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.
Now, for people who don't know what I'm talking about, I was the show that signed behind you, Politically Incorrect. Yeah. That show was on for nine years. Yes. I got canned. Which is, you know, oh my Christ. This is heavy. That's a lot of weed. That's a lot of weed.
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.
These are from the woods, which is the, I mean, if you've never been to the woods, it's just amazing. I mean, it's like a pot store because it's just, it's a pot store in the front, which is as nice as any pot store I've ever seen. And then in the back, it has these, it goes all the way back to the next street on the block, which you don't see from when you walk in.
And back there, it's like a jungle and there's all these cabanas. It's the best place to, if you want to smoke it where you bought it, there's no place like it. Absolutely.
How was it smoking with Woody Harrison?
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Chapter 2: What does Xzibit think about the current hip hop landscape?
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,
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.
Oh, I mean, they go through people's old tweets. You're very fortunate that they don't go through people's old raps. I'm just going to say there are some advantages, my friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes you drop. They will. They will one day. Oh, they could. And it wouldn't be hard to find. No. Things that are just so misogynistic. Yeah, you can't say that shit now.
I mean, bitch, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Choke me, spank me, pull my hair. Like, that's one of my biggest songs.
And that's the title.
Yeah, that's the title. I know.
But I'm saying, bitch, please, you must have a mental disease. Yeah. Assume the position and get back down on your knees. Get back down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not bad enough. It's like she got up to get a glass of water and that pissed you off. Yeah, that would not win Now's Man of the Year award. Yeah, it didn't age well. It didn't age well. But you know what? I make this case all the time.
There's an author who wrote a book about it. He calls it presentism. It means you don't judge people by the mores of the past because people were always just different. Right. You're not better. You just came later. Yes. You're not better than George Washington.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind Xzibit’s fight scene with Jennifer Aniston?
Mm-hmm.
But it did, you know, but... Who went first? Who jumped the line in diversity?
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.
Yeah, before it got down to... But see, women don't need help in the workplace. That's how very often we're just so far... locked into previous narratives that we get involved in what I keep calling zombie lies. Like, it's a zombie lie. It was true, and then it became not true, but you keep saying it.
And women, yeah, women did used to not be treated equally and, like, not paid as much just because they were women. And they weren't... avenues open to them. Women now are leading in the workplace. You know, they graduate more from college. It's the boys who are lagging behind now in those areas. You know, it's like, we're not living in the world where women can't get ahead. Yeah, yeah.
No, I'm not saying that.
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.
Yeah, yeah. No, they did. I mean, as usual in this country, Biden overdid it with DEI, and Trump is going too far in the other direction. The pendulum never stops in the middle in this country.
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.
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