Xzibit is standing by Conor McGregor’s facet.
Final 12 months, the UFC star introduced that he was launching his personal report label in Eire dubbed Dollar Information. One of many first skills signed by McGregor and his crew was Xzibit, a rapper with greater than 30 years of expertise within the trade and 7 studio albums.
Xzibit has additionally delved into the worlds of movie, tv, and video video games, showing in such fare as 8 Mile, The Nation Bears, XXX: State of the Union, and Derailed. He additionally hosted MTV’s common TV sequence Pimp My Trip for 3 years.
McGregor and Xzibit definitely appeared like an unlikely pairing when their partnership was first introduced, however the Paparazzi rapper not too long ago shared some perception into how the pairing got here to be.
“We went out to Marbella, Spain, well, first we went to Ireland and I met the team of people that he [McGregor] wants to form Greenback Records with,” Xzibit defined to AllHipHop.com. “These folks have labored within the buildings. They’ve been in there. They’re music folks with the enterprise folks. So I wished to examine that out. I used to be like, okay, cool. That makes me really feel loads higher.
“That’s basically how it happened. When we came home, it was just like, okay, it’s time to go. We’re gonna push go and we pushed the button. That sh*t’s working.”
Xzibit Compares Conor McGregor’s Document Label to Different Athletes Who’ve Tried and Failed within the Music Business
Xzibit finally signed with McGregor’s label after seeing the Irish megastar’s distinctive strategy to the music trade in comparison with different athletes who’ve tried to launch their very own report labels.
“We’ve seen athletes try to do the label thing,” he mentioned. “But usually, it’s like football players and basketball players that also kind of want to rap,” he mentioned. “No, he’s not trying to rap whatsoever. He’s approaching it differently and he’s not jaded by any other record politics that we all know about. He’s literally looking at this like fight promotion.”
Whereas Xzibit has stayed lively within the trade, it’s been greater than a decade since he launched a studio album. After seeing McGregor’s modern perspective firsthand, the Detroit native finds himself very enthusiastic about getting again to work.
“We’re talking about approaching it like that, really building it in that fashion,” he mentioned. “And that’s exciting to me. Again, the risk versus reward, I’ve never been afraid to step out on faith.”
‘X’ Refuses to Desert McGregor in his ‘time of need’
After all, you’ll be able to’t discuss Conor McGregor lately with out referring to his authorized troubles. In November, Eire’s excessive court docket discovered him chargeable for the December 2018 rape of a lady at a Dublin resort. The sufferer, 35-year-old Nikita Hand, was awarded €250,000 in damages. McGregor was additionally ordered to pay greater than one million {dollars} in Hand’s authorized charges.
Because the verdict, a number of organizations have parted methods with McGregor, together with Correct No. 12, the Irish whiskey model that McGregor bought to Proximo Spirits a couple of years again for a whopping $600 million.
“I gotta look at it like this; If you can’t stay down with the people in their dark times, you don’t deserve to stand up with them in the light,” Xzibit acknowledged. “From what I’ve seen, the dude is doing the best he can. Great businessman too. His whiskey’s huge.”
As for Correct No. 12 not using McGregor as a spokesman for the model, Xzibit mentioned:
“It’s crazy because without him, there’s no [Proper No. Twelve]. But it is what it is. I stay down. I don’t desert my people in their time of need.”
