D12 & Esham Kicked Off Warped Tour After Brawl
D-12 & Esham Kicked Off Warped Tour After Brawl
It looks like a few rappers can't behave themselves while they're away from home. D-12 have been kicked off the Warped Tour because of a brawl that ensued at the Camden, New Jersey show last Friday (8/3).
According to Billboard, about 40 associates of D-12 stepped off the tour bus and jumped rival Detroit emcee Esham and his partner T.N.T. back stage leaving them with cuts and bruises. Esham walked away with a broken nose, a ruptured eyeball, a concussion and some hearing damage. Esham, T.N.T. and Mastamind make up the group Natas, who were billed on the tour, but they were also kicked off.
The beef stems from lyrics directed at Eminem and D-12 from Esham on his latest album, Tongues. The track "All Night Everyday" which features porn star Heather Hunter and Kool Keith lyrics read:
"The styles that you runnin' 'round wit' is ours/You and them 'Shady' suckas is nothin' but cowards/Bang ya brains in the dirt, make ya go bezerk/If you rap wit' Emily, your ass gon' get murk/I'm the E to the S to the H-A-M/If I wasn't then why would I say I am/ Pull a jack, sell a sack 'cuz the babies need similac/You remember that rollin' in a Cadillac/You wanna' battle rap, I swing the battle axe/Chop ya head off until Haile go tattle that (da-da)"
Even though Eminem was not on the tour, Esham believes that he made it happen. "Mathers gave the word," Esham tell Billboard. "He didn't even show up for the tour. That's how premeditated this was. This was a straight up attempted murder on my life. I could have been dead."