Xzibit staging a comeback in Spain

That´s right, you heard it here first: the rap ¨star¨ Xzibit is striving to one-up Eminem and stage the biggest hiphop comeback in 2011. Or so it would seem, at least here in Spain. X to the Z as he so fondly called himself is everywhere! Okay, maybe just on MTV and maybe just when they show old re-runs of Pimp my Ride but it seems as if you can´t turn on your T.V. (at 4:00 in the afternoon) (on weekdays) without seeing him overhauling junk cars in style. I, along with many of you I am sure, had forgotten about this little gem of a show. The premise is simple: take one already pretty played out rapper (even in 2006ish around when the show was aired, the year I am guestimating after seeing Arnold make a guest appearance as the Governator), add busted vehicles, a ton of AWFUL and cheesy jokes, a dude with the worst spiked hair you have ever seen, seriously, ever, in your whole life and a crew of bad actors playing a car shop that transform the cars into flashy trash on wheels. Watching this show has raised some serious questions in my mind. First of all, by participating in this show didn´t Xzibit lose all his street cred? Second, where on God´s green earth did they find such wrecks (both the cars and the people) to be on the show? I saw an episode in which a guy was driving a molester van his grandma had won in 1984 in Vegas after playing a slot machine. It had dead animals in the motor. That guy should be in jail, not getting his ride ¨pimped¨. My third question, was anyone really that happy that their car was painted yellow with bright orange flames on it? Or that is had a fish bowl that could rise on hydrolics in the trunk? How long did the stereo systems or the T.V.s they added last before someone stole them? Wouldn´t the insurance be too expensive after the so-called improvements? I kind of wish they would do a reunion special or a where-are-they-now show to see how these people have maintained their vehicles. (I also would watch a where-are-they-now of all the idiots who did Room Raiders, Date my Mom or any other trashtastic MTV show). I was curious to see where Xzibit aka Alvin Nathaniel Joiner IV (ummmm, his parents, their parents, and their parents suck for passing down that name) was now so of course, I wikipidiaed him. Let´s hope this re-run-driven Spanish comeback works because according to the website, he owed more than $959, 523 in back taxes. Looks like he got pimped.