Bizarre Asked Who Should Play a Detroit Super Bowl. He Didn't Say Eminem.

Bizarre sat down with Shirley Ju to talk touring, Snoop's dressing room and why Eminem laughed off the idea of ever headlining a hypothetical Super Bowl in his own city.

Bizarre is one of two D12 members Eminem still talks to regularly, and two weeks ago he was the one sitting next to Em in a Ford Field suite for the Lions' season-opening overtime win over the Saints. This week he sat down with Shirley Ju for a wide-ranging interview, first reported by eminem.news on Friday, September 26, covering old tours, Snoop's dressing room and, near the end, a flat answer about whether Eminem would ever perform at a Super Bowl in Detroit.

Bizarre's full sit-down with Shirley Ju, posted to her channel this week.

The Chronic tour, or whatever he ends up calling it

Asked to pick a favorite tour, Bizarre could not land on one. The years have blurred, he admits, and what stuck was less the setlist than the feeling of being young and along for the ride, not the show itself. He kept calling one tour by the wrong name before catching himself, which tells you how long ago this all was: D12 got pulled onto Dr. Dre's 2000 Up in Smoke run, alongside Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Warren G, the same tour we covered on its 25th anniversary last year. Bizarre still refers to it as "the Chronic tour," after Dre's album, not the tour's actual name.

Bizarre: "The Anger Management tour was dope. A lot of the tours are dope. My first tour was the Chronic tour with Dr. Dre, and Snoop, and Warren G, and all of them. And we didn't even rap. We were just chilling. Because Em wanted us to see it. We had just got signed. I don't even think we had any songs done. We had a couple of songs, but we just wanted to be in the atmosphere and the environment. That shit was crazy."

D12 had no set to play. Eminem, freshly signed and freshly famous, brought the whole crew out anyway, just so they could stand in the room and absorb it before they had material of their own. That detail matters for what Bizarre says later about why touring itself lost its shine for Eminem: the road was as much an education and a grind as it was a stage.

The boom box he stole from Snoop

Bizarre would not get into specifics about Eminem's own conduct on those tours, calling that a story that is not his to tell. Instead he talked about the culture D12 built for themselves on the road, borrowed wholesale from Snoop Dogg's dressing room.

Bizarre: "We were having fun, man. Just trying to keep shit up. We got this one idea from Snoop. Snoop got the dopest dressing room I've ever seen. He had like a big ass boom box in there. They been there playing like 70s shit. It's just a party. So, I ended up stealing the idea. I brought a boom box on our tour, and we used to have little parties. Other rappers want to come in our room like, 'Damn, what y'all over here doing, dawg? Y'all over here vibing like a motherfucker!'"

It is a small, specific memory, the kind that survives when a whole tour route does not, and it fits the version of early D12 that has come up in other recent interviews. Denaun has described those same years as a group figuring out its identity together, one eight-track machine and one bit at a time, before Slim Shady existed as the character the world knows.

Why Denaun's answer and Bizarre's answer line up

Bizarre brought up a story Mr. Porter and Stat Quo had recently shared from the Anger Management tour, a rougher memory than the boom box parties, and used it to point at something bigger: that the touring years themselves, not just any one bad night on the road, are tangled up in Eminem's reluctance to get back on a stage. That tracks almost exactly with what Denaun Porter told The 3rd Verse Podcast earlier this month, in far more detail: a four-hour interview in which Denaun walked through the phones-in-the-crowd problem, a manager who negotiates him down to a handful of shows a year, the physical toll of the sets, and his sobriety. Two different members of the same circle, asked separately, keep arriving at the same place.

The Super Bowl question

Then came the direct question: if a Super Bowl ever landed in Detroit (no such game is currently scheduled there; the slots through 2030 are already assigned elsewhere), who should play halftime? Bizarre did not hesitate toward his old friend. Pressed on whether Eminem himself would want the job, he laughed the idea off outright.

Bizarre: "Hell no. Em wants to chill. He wants to watch the Super Bowl. He doesn't want to be performing."

Bizarre says he still talks to Eminem two or three times a week and describes him as doing well, closer these days to family and his grandson than to a tour bus. It is worth remembering Eminem has already done the Super Bowl halftime show once, in 2022, and won an Emmy for it, so this is not a case of an artist who has never wanted the stage. It reads instead as someone who got the biggest version of that particular moment already and, according to the two people closest to the decision, has little pull to chase it again.

Header image: Bizarre on Shirley's Temple (frame from YouTube video). Credit: Shirley's Temple.