I actually have groomed myself to a point where I feel comfortable performing in arenas, and that was something that I wasn't exposed to. If anything, I learned how to work an arena. When you're rockin' a club, the only span is left to right. But when you gotta work left, right, up, back, middle, that's a real experience. It definitely strengthened my performance.
People love it, man.
They like the fact that every album I do I progress, I grow a little. When me and Eminem sat down to do that track, we wanted to do something really personal. A lot of things have happened to Xzibit, to Alvin Joiner, that the public is never gonna see. I wanted to put something on the album to give somebody some insight that, after we get done entertaining you guys and go into our houses, we do have regular problems like everybody else. You in the spotlight, you still gotta leave the spotlight and go home and go to sleep.