“You’re the shit when you have stuff that moves on your set,” he says. Xzibit doesn’t want to hear about any simple stage sets. Shaddix jumped into the crowd during the frenetic opener, “M-80,” and banged his mike against his forehead on “Life Is a Bullet.”
“It’s not like a regular rock show where kids are pitting and going crazy, but we’re rocking it hard.” To that end, Papa Roach delivered a stripped-down show full of songs from their heavily metal new album, Lovehatetragedy. “We didn’t know what the reaction was gonna be,” he says. Shaddix is enjoying Papa Roach’s role as the only major rock band on Anger Management.
I used to help a lot with organizing shows, but now he does everything himself.” In all seriousness, Proof adds, “He’s grown. “That motherfucker still can’t keep a beat, and he can’t dance,” he says. MC Proof of D12 doesn’t see much in the way of maturation, though. “He performs for an hour and fifteen minutes, and he’s got a gangload of shit going on.” “Em’s mellowed out,” says Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach, who played the first Anger Management Tour, in 2000, with Em and Limp Bizkit. D12 brought some more energy onstage for “When the Music Stops” and the bleary-eyed pounder “Purple Pills.”Īccording to his road mates, Eminem - who has had his share of trouble in the past few years - is keeping the drama onstage. Slim Shady finally arrived to the loping beat of “Square Dance,” descending from the top of the Ferris wheel as the video screen flickered with old rodeo footage and a gigantic “E.” For the thundering “White America,” Eminem donned a Stars and Stripes bandanna as an animated Uncle Sam gave the audience the middle finger. (The backdrop alone cost an estimated $700,000, according to one source.)Įminem’s set began with a slow-building video montage of censorious authority figures such as Senator Joe Lieberman and Second Lady Lynne Cheney labeling the rapper “disgusting” and worse. It may be the most elaborate hip-hop concert ever, boasting a circus set with a working Ferris wheel, a David Copperfield-like disappearing act, cartoons, costume changes, booming pyrotechnics and a giant mouth that attempts to swallow a backup singer.
Welcome to the fourth date of the 2002 Anger Management Tour: four and a half hours of music from Eminem, Papa Roach, Ludacris and Xzibit, with between-set turntable stunts by the X-ecutioners.Īt the Nissan Pavilion outside Washington, D.C., Eminem delivered a supersize stadium version of his latest album, The Eminem Show. “Look at me fly!” He rose out of view, and then a member of Eminem’s crew D12 fired a shotgun. The Moby impersonator, wearing a bald-head wig and a tracksuit, floated above the stage on a wire.