A legendary rapper recalled his time with Eminem on Warped Tour in 1999.
I met Em when he was on Warped Tour and the white kids were booing him. The white kids were throwing shit at him. That’s when they used to use the term “wigger.” They didn’t like him because it was a punk rock tour. Now I was out there rapping, they didn’t have a problem with me, or with Black Eyed Peas before Franny. But when he got up there they felt it was ok to be disrespectful. And I watched him weather that storm.
Even back then Eminem was able to handle the situation and look at the bigger picture. He thought not about withstanding one difficult gig but about staying in hip-hop scene for a long time. Ice-T asked him about his plans and intentions, about what he wanted out of the rap game and Em answered: “Well I wanna be around like you and Dre.”
The maturity of this response impressed the older hip-hop star:
Way back then he was concerned with longevity. And he was always a supernatural rapper, he was incredible, but was he going to be able to weather the storm? Now, the white kids love him! But he had to pay his dues. It was funny though, not funny, but he was getting more tension from the white audience than the black audience.
Eminem surely followed through and achieved longevity he dreamed about, and he does not get shit from anyone even if some people are still pretty tense about his success.
Watch the short video of Eminem with Ice-T and Proof during The Warped tour:
Proof, Ice T, Eminem & DJ Head
Warped Tour 1999 pic.twitter.com/8p2cjjlHKL— WickedWays (@flowstoowet) August 7, 2019
