Xzibit is currently touring in Australia and not making friends.
According to The Australian, Xzibit was scheduled to appear on Rove McManus' "Rove Live" but walked out after what he perceived were racist comments from the show's staff. The rapper then blogged about it in a MySpace post titled, "Rove the Racist."
According to the blog post (which has since been removed) the misunderstanding started when X was told by the show's producers that he'd have to perform with jazz singer Michael Buble and would be allowed only 42 seconds to rap instead of a full minute. One of the producers then told the rapper, "you know we came a long way just having you on the program." Spokespeople for the show deny either event happened.
Xzibit then left the studio and did not return. He offered up his opinion of the controversy in a new blog post today:
The fact that this Rove thing is actually NEWS is pretty lame. I wrote a blog on my myspace page while everyone else seems to want to run to the newspapers and other media outlets to protect themselves. Listen I was there to do what I was asked to do I was never introduced to Rove himself, So me saying he's racist may have been taken like a direct insult, but that is the name of his show so I had nothing else to refer to but ROVE when describing where I was. Alot of people coming on to my site to express themselves about that night some good some off the mark. its just all traffic to me. Maybe Rove isnt a racist, Just ignorant to what his staff is doing in his behalf. IF you have a problem with what I say in my blogs.....stay off my site people.
XZIBIT.
Maybe the rap community should just avoid Australia for a while. Ask Snoop.
