Like many other rappers, Xzibit has hopped on the marijuana train with his own weed company, Napalm Cannabis. But according to TMZ, the veteran rapper is being dragged online for the company’s name due to its perceived “racist” overtones.
The name reportedly conjures up painful memories for some people who associate the word “napalm” with the Vietnam War that took place between 1965 and 1972.
Napalm is the chemical agent used in countless firebombs/flamethrowers that killed numerous innocent Vietnamese people during the war. It was also used against Japan during World War II but finally banned by the United Nations in 1980.
Customers of one particular dispensary in Los Angeles were reportedly upset by Xzibit’s pre-rolled product “The Grenade” and didn’t appreciate the “cavalier” reference to a deadly weapon of war. The marketing team behind pushing the brand, Higher Path, is taking full culpability for the faux pas.
“As an entirely-white marketing team that lacks knowledge or trauma surrounding this weapon, we didn’t realize how violent and ignorant it was to promote such a brand/product,” they said in a statement. ” That’s on us.”
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As for Xzibit, he’s as equally remorseful but explained it was a reference to his 2012 album of the same name.
“The word napalm is definitely synonymous with war and being used as a weapon,” he says in the clip. “If you know anything about me and my body of work, I have albums called Weapons of Mass Destruction and Man Vs. Machine, so on and so forth.
“So this album here is called Napalm. I put this album out in 2012. I know people don’t use CDs anymore, but this is where the branding for Napalm came from as you can see. That’s the font we use, that’s the flame we use, so it’s based off the album. And it transcended to how we build our cannabis company.”
Xzibit went on to say he didn’t intend to offend anyone within the Asian-American community and vowed to do better.
“My intention for naming the cannabis company Napalm wasn’t affiliated or a nod to the devastation its had in its past,” he continues. “I think the creative license I used for Napalm is purely based on my body of work as an artist. My intention here is to just let everyone know that as a Black man, I understand discrimination and hatred.
“I understand what that does to communities, how it affects communities and I’m not tone deaf to that. Just to clarify, we by no means acknowledge, justify or feel as though we are promoting violence toward the Asian community. We stand with the Asian community.”
Y’ALL Pussies. Get at Lil Nas X if y’all wanna fix the world
Yo GTFOH napalm is used in a variety of things ..so we gna ban the word?? This is dumb what’s next banning war movies cause someone is using an assault rifle wth is going on we can’t let these type of people ban and cancel everything it’s outta hand ..there’s gna be an agressive push back pretty soon from all this censorship
They are bidens people… you morons have no clue what is happening, just keep scratching your head and follow the slave box in your living room
Nice job censoring my comments. Just proves my point where this side of world is going.
It was the name of his album on top of the fact its a good name for a weed product. Are we going to change the name of Miracle Whip because it makes people think of slavery? Straight sissy sh*t on any of these “complaints”
We’re just calling it “Miracle” now.
Edit: push back from Christian lobby, we’re just calling it “________ ____” now.
Edit: push back from geometry lobby for appropriation. We give up. Fuck you. Make your own mayo.
what doesn’t offend ppl in 2021
Aha so the wokes are out in full effect again i see. The leftist pussy machine is rolling heavily under joe stumbles biden
I wish Trump had been as much of a dictator as the woke mob always pretended he was, so the people offended about this could have been put in labor camps and executed. There’s no good reason to keep them in the human gene pool.
There are places you can move to where life is literally like that, if that’s what you truly wish for. I agree this is a stupid thing to bitch about but your response is equally dumb.
Good move to China you seem to enjoy being controlled and suppressed, dumb ass brain dead sheep
“As an entirely-white marketing team that lacks knowledge or trauma surrounding this weapon, we didn’t realize how violent and ignorant it was to promote such a brand/product. That’s on us.” / Well fuck me sideways! Some of you Americans are ANTIFA personified with shit like this. Why don’t you give an Indian your house keys while you’re at it?! Bet you won’t though. Why didn’t CNN open the doors to their 500million dollar Manhattan building and house those ‘poor immigrants’ instead of pulling a fake-fuck sad face to the camera?! GET THE WHOLE FUCK OUTTA HERE!
I think you’d be hard pressed to find a rational human being among those complaining.
Meanwhile in China and Myanmar, people are literally being slaughtered. People in the west live in a bubble, start paying attention to things that matter before it’s too late.
This story is very silly.
What a racist piece of black shit.
My garden shed has better locks and doors than your place of business, Napalm boy.