14 DAY TRIAL // Rapper Xzibit got into a very heated dispute backstage his gig in Adelaide, slapping and then throwing a metal chair at an Aussie promoter who is also a rapper and opened for him later that night. The whole scene was caught on camera and is now available online.
The shaky phone video recording can be found in full on YouTube but, because of language that might offend, we won’t embed it here. You will find, however, a clean and short version of the incident embedded below, just so you can get a clear idea of how heated things got.
Patrick Whynthie is the promoter in question. He’s also known by the stage name Mastacraft and he opened for X that same night, right after the altercation.
He tells AdelaideNow that Xzibit came at him unprovoked, as he was trying to settle another dispute between the rapper’s bodyguard and a security guard at the UniBar, where the gig took place. He also confirms that he was slapped, but tries to make light of it.
“It wasn’t very hard, it was a girly slap... I just laughed, I couldn’t believe it. He was just acting crazy, yelling, abusing us,” he tells the publication.
You don’t hear Patrick laughing in the video and you can’t see whether the chair hit him or not. Judging by the force with which Xzibit threw it and how furious he was, he’s lucky he didn’t get hit directly.
Speaking of the video, it shows just Xzibit shouting at an unseen Patrick (he’s behind a door), yelling something about whether “he’s a rapper or a promoter” because, apparently, “you can’t be both.” You can’t hear what exactly he’s complaining about, but you do hear him tell Whynthie to step outside for a little “one on one.”
At one point, Xzibit actually tucks away his chains under his shirt and clenches his fists, ready to jump but he’s stopped by his entourage.
Reports online, coming from a variety of unconfirmed sources, claim that the world-famous rapper took offense with the less famous rapper’s idea of VIP treatment. Apparently, he was picked up at the airport with a beat-up Subaru with broken windows and then had to pay for a cab from his hotel to the venue for a sound check, because Whynthie had not arranged proper transportation by limo.
Xzibit also took offense with other things he found at the venue, hence his reproach that Whynthie should choose between promoter and rapper because he’s doing a lousy job at both simultaneously.
Right now, the two are trading insults and disses on social media, with Xzibit accusing Patrick of calling the cops on him, and Patrick calling him a “LIAR” (in caps, no less) in response.