80% Of "Pimp My Ride" Was Fake. Here’s The Evidence
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- Over the last 15 years, many former Pimp My Ride contestants have come forward to expose the show as fake. The houses, reveals and reactions were staged, many of the car's upgrades didn't work or got removed as soon as the cameras cut, and depressingly, even Xzibit himself seemed to grow resentful of Pimp My Ride after filming it. This video will explore how Pimp My Ride was staged, and how it impacted those on the show.
This is, 80% Of "Pimp My Ride" Was Fake. Here’s The Evidence .
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The biggest clue that it was all fake was that it was a TV show
Lol that was funny made me laugh
As a guy who does some freelance in TV land....100%!!!!
Lmao my thoughts exactly as I was watching this video...
TV show production is sooo polished.
Jersey Shore was more fake
Being a 90s kid is tough now. All the shows I enjoyed as a kid are turning out to be really sinister.
You are right brother. The culture we saw now as labeled bad and harmful, and we are the leftovers just acting weird all the time. Of course I kind of never believed that PMR was a documentary, but seeing that they doesn't even repaired the cars, just repaint them in 7 months and that even Xzibit was lied to, because they never played his music nor promoted him is just too much. Not to mention what happened to Britney, she was the greatest back then.
Jackass was mostly fake to😢
all reality shows are fake, show me just one which is real,
It's even worse now, because they force political propaganda into everything.
@@eisbeinGermany Kitchen Nightmares Amy Baking Company.
As a “logical teen” watching this show back then, all I could think about was “how do all these unnecessary accessories make my car better?”. But I guess there’s a reason why the show was called “Pimp my ride” and not “Fix my ride” lol
LOL I was horribly not logical as a teen, LOL…I was very sheltered…I was raised with the basic necessities, and my parents did the best they could, but I don’t believe that they were the brightest crayons in the box, and I felt in retrospect that my brain had to play catchup when I became an adult, with the way my mindset was. I honestly fell for the reality TV thing, but not to the point of “imitating violent scenes on TV in real life because it’s cool and/or fun” extreme.
Of course, it’s all staged rubbish, but sometimes I watch for the staged reactions and roll my eyes, LOL.
@@nathanbush6781 I can relate to having to catchup in life. In many ways I am still far behind and still struggle to cope with that. My parents did their best raising me with their 1960s mentality. I knew the shows were fake but it was a stupid reality time of my life that I deeply enjoyed then. Every day is like waking suddenly in the real world and not understanding how you got there. All I know is I won't ever raise my kids like my parents raised me. Tv was our screens back then like kids today on their devices.
well, there's wheeler dealers...
Kinda like when Storage Wars cuts open a lock on an abandoned locker, raise the door and there's gaffer tape covering the brand logos on every item 😂
Damn, if it was real couldn't they explain to the brands that they had no clue what was in there
yeah like surely they woulda been able to blur stuff out in post?
To be honest, I can totally get over the "making the car more damaged" or the "renting a fake much more filmable house, meeting Xzibit with fake reactions" things - it's a TV show after all. But making people themselves look much worse and disgusting, while being total assholes towards them, is a huge problem nonetheless.
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You understand it's MTV right? What did you expect?
And providing them a 5 gallon overhauled hot wheels toy?
It's amazing these entitled kids manage to complain about this... The guy sold his $500 "pimped" car for 18K and is STILL complaining... Fuck these people... Everything that is wrong with society today...
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I actually feel bad for Xzibit. By all accounts he seems like a decent guy who every contestant actually liked, but ended up being cast into the shadows of “the guy from PMR” and the brunt of many jokes.
And what's worst, MTV, who was once a representative of promoting musical artists and their videos, NEVER pimped Xzibit's music as promised.
@@thechosen481 MTV hasn't been promoting music for decades, and that's been the case since the 2000s. Their programming is more reality tv.
My first career starting in high school was installing high-end car audio and security at one of the longest-running shops in the country which was opened in the '70s (I started in 1989) and produced several nationally recognized, IASCA and NACA winning vehicles. I did it full time for about 15 years and part time for several years after that. This show aired when I was still doing that work. I always thought many of the mods were ridiculous, like screens in the headliner. Not flip-down screens. Just flush with the headliner so you have to look straight up to view them. Who the hell is going to benefit from that?! I could tell a lot of the work was just for the camera and wouldn't stand the test of time or be used much because of its impracticality.
Not only that, but back in the '90s, a friend of mine in Austin tried out for The Real World when they were preparing to film it there. They told him he could have the job if he played a gay man. He's totally straight and was married with two kids at the time, so he declined. So none of these revelations about another MTV show surprise me at all. "Reality TV" my a$$!
Man, you could make some vids about the audio install years. Must be some good stories and other stuff.
They went way wayyy overboard with all the screens on Pimp my Ride. Every car they did would end up with like 10 of them. And if it was a van or an SUV that was just more room for more screens! Like when they would put a bunch of screens in the back of a van or SUV as if people are going to stand around the back of the vehicle and watch movies on little screens. lol
Real world Austin wasn't in the 90s, it was in the mid 2000s
MTV is garbage and has been garbage since the mid 90’s
@@jeremywashington7699 I could be off on the timeframe. I lived there from '96-97, and someone I knew when I lived there told me about it, but I kept in touch with him for many years after living there. He absolutely told me when it was happening - I just thought it was while I lived there and not after I moved away. It was a long time ago.
I'm shocked to learn that a reality TV show is fake.
I'm more shocked the youtube generation needs to get explained what we already knew back then haha
@@klaasj7808 You knew about every minor detail that was explained in this video? Doubt it.
@@unnamed715 the title says whats it about,
😂
@@unnamed715 of course we didn't know the details. But we could clearly tell that all the reactions were staged because they all looked the same from episode to episode, as well as 19 yo kids living all by themselves in clean and expensive houses - yet owning trashed, junk cars - was pure fantasy. In fact the only reason we watched it was to see how ridiculous the car will get in the end. And truth be told - if we had an open confirmation (versus based, but still, suspicions) that the show was fake - we'd still watch it. Like we watched wrestling knowing full well it's all theatrics and staged plots.
Never once did they ever address anything mechanically wrong with the cars they fixed. It was all bells and whistles.
A few times the car was so bad they bought a new one but they prob charged em for it...
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@@lainwired3946 I’m sure they didn’t charge them for the car as it can be a tax write off for the producers but imagine going back to WCC and finding out that your insurance rates just tripled.
These people are extremely entitled... You had the option to decline... They gave you 2k for a rental... They made your car better than it was before(even if you don't like the color/design)... I have no sympathy for the guests, they expected to get thousands of dollars of upgrades to their car for free and manage to complain when it was not to their liking.... Fuck these people...
well, it was pimp my ride, not make my ride into a girlfriend, they clearly stated that they want to whore you out for money and not help you in any way.
I'm born 1989. I saw this show back there. I always knew there was something wrong with this show. The microphone mounted on the "winners" when he knocked at the door was the big fact for me that i asked myself questions.
It's as real as pawn stars, hardcore pawn, operation repo etc. It's for entertainment. Problem is they didn't call it a reality show.
Exactly
News flash from Hollywood: this is how every reality show is made, even to this day.
I think even before they got exposed, we all knew something was up deep down inside 😂 a mini theater in an SUV, turning a sedan to an ice cream truck. Some ridiculous concepts that were not practical or sustainable at all. It's a shame that contestants weren't aware of the consequences, I was under the impression it was all staged, I had no idea the producers were this cruel.
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Yeah I always thought it was common knowledge that everything on this show was BS from the beginning, I thought people were just looking past it lmao
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I think I was around 11 years old when I watched this. I remember me and my friend questioning a lot of the “upgrades.” There was one where they installed a mini-bar or something in the trunk, and even as an 11 year old I was thinking “oh gross, you’re really gonna store consumables in your car like that?”
Granted I live in Texas and the thought of eating or drinking something that I’ve stored in my car that sits in 115 degree heat in the summer makes me sick
This situation is kinda embarassing. Now, I feel richer than them even tho I am broke. 😂
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Isn’t this a reupload? I’ve seen this before.
Mandela effecto
theres alot of these vids out there
It's just because it isn't news. This has been well-documented for many years. I think Tavarish gets into it after he bought the pink dodge caravan from pimp my ride also donut did a video on it like 2 years ago iirc
Just recycled content soyim.
I know someone who had an old Ford Capri ‘pimped’ on the UK version with the cringe Tim Westwood, and he could ever use it because the engine was still broke
A friend of mine has a show on cable TV and he said it's incredible to him the amount of crap that they don't have to actually fake but refilm literally 50 times for a 15-second segment. By the fifth time what they were doing has lost all meaning and they just want to get it over.
I just don't understand it compared to all the people I know with CZcams where it's just four guys running around with GoPros having a good time, with way more people watching people watching
Gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Because youtubers are never fake.
CZcamsrs, like Goonies never die.
Same I was on a kids “gameshow” and some shit were staged badd , it was fun tho
you dont understand because you are comparing a popular mtv show to whatever your friends are dojng
As someone who used to work in reality tv, this is pretty much how ALL reality tv is produced. It varies in how much is based on fact or made up, but there is almost always a producer feeding lines or steering the dialogue to tell the story that they want to
Sometimes I wonder if the Joe Schmo show was the least fake reality TV show.
Obviously. But it’s concerning that you have to state that surely no one thinks that craps real
@@RyanYoxo It's really not that fake.
@@RyanYoxo some people can see through the fakeness. But most don't. That's why these type of shows are successful and you have a bunch of people talking about what happened on Big Brother or the Kardashians like it's a real thing. All of these shows are really, really fake.
TV written by people who aren't writers acted by people who aren't actors.
When I was as film school we learnt "Theres nothing real about reality TV" and that was well over 10 years ago
Back then, they knew better. Now, we're in the age of nuance, expectation subversion, and stupidity.
Exactly
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I’ve been on reality tv, I was on the show ‘Take me Home’ which is a dog adoption show based in Western Australia. At least 60% of the stuff that was filmed wasn’t in the final product, but we did get to keep the dog. Some scenes, like when we got her from the airport, we did that sequence half a dozen times, filmed from different angles and with different cameras each time.
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My good friend was too back when we were in high school. The crew literally came to the school to film scenes with him. We made fun of him for years.
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I’m from Perth and have never heard of this show. Was it on sbs or something?
@@gdmclean it was on Channel 9, it was Take Me Home episode 3
Not gunna lie. Finding out all the shows I watched as a kid were completely fake hurts just a little...
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@@MbitaChizi Fat old DISLIKE for ya.
I can't believe not even MacGyver was for real...
I mean... Even I questioned at the time how every time Xzibit went to each contestant's house, how not only where they home but also fully dressed. Like not one person in their PJs or something?
It does...
10:33 “He was lovely. High as a kite and lovely.” 😆
A reality tv show is fake?? No…
You did a great job with this vid. Yet I feel unfullfiled. There's gotta be more to the story of PMR. Would love to see a miniseries. Cheers
@@gazrik ...Really?
I've always enjoyed Sunnys vids and thier originality. I wish/hope this isn't true, or you're atleast exagurating! D:
If you want more info come see the channel he stole that info from presented honestly. The show was epic. The lady with the snake in the intro is my wife. We still have her car from the show. I'm doing a real where are they now follow up series
MTV (Masonic television) lied to us? Nnnnnooooo 🤨
Just another fake exaggerated stories and more bad acting full of trash cars :D Read a good book instead.
Glad to hear everyone had a solid experience with Xzibit at least. He seems like a genuine dude and was an excellent host for the show
And at least we got a lot of good memes out of it. It's just a bummer that he had to spend all of his time on PMR rather than what he likes to do best: Recording music.
Also, who cared about the people or their stories? We were here to see if Xzibit was going to put a flamethrower in a TV in a car. It is MTV, we didn't care.
Feel kind of bad for the dude. He was carrying the show at the peak of his popularity and barely got paid for it.
@@DamienDarksideI care about the people.
@@Drakewyrm Who said he didn't get paid well? As far as I know he did get a good payment.
This was an amazing video, great job to explain everything with details. I saw this show when I was a teen.
This lady couldn’t put her snake down for the interview 😂
Huge California Kingsnake
They really did seth dirty by telling the world he kept candy all over his car just in case 😭
made him look like unkept pig of a man
And they double down by placing a cotton candy machine at the back of his trunk 😔
For real, just 'cause you're overweight doesn't mean you're a sugar addict, once fat is on there it takes a long time to turn your metabolism around to start to lose weight.
Editor's thought process: our audience demographic = a large % of children; kids like candy, so a cotton candy machine will seem cool; ok who would have a cotton candy machine in their car? A very fat person who has sudden cravings. Ok let's dump candy all over the car.
It's a real shame, man. In 6th grade I'd stay up until like 3am just to catch the back to back episodes of this. I knew even as a kid that it HAD to be scripted or something in a few parts, but damn it was SUCH a good show back in the day.
No it wont
Great! People are finally starting to realize that most TV shows were fake. Now they will have to admit that the videos on CZcams are also fake, and the Shorts and TikToks are even more fake.
"hate is a lie, truth is a lie" Inquisitor Draco
Are you real? Are you fake? Am I real? am I fake? What is this?
02:34 Look at the house number. It was 78655, but the show changed it to look like 78666. You can literally see the tape or whatever they used to change the last two digits. They wanted you subliminally notice it. The devil leaves his signature on EVERYTHING he touches, including this show. That's unholywood for ya.
X seemed like a decent guy. I met him when he rented out a party room at a sports bar I worked at around 2003. Was cool with me walking up to him to get a few pics and even stopped to talk to me in the parking lot when I got off work. Never once did he seem to not care or had acted like he had better things to do or places to be.
I met him during Weinstein party. Let’s just say he could have been featured in his own show that night. Hollywood bruh 🤫
We need more details man 😆
@@newagain9964
Oh my god. A TV show for MTV was...fake? I'm shocked.
Side note, Of course they falsified information about the "winners", I wouldn't want my real name/face/address/what my house looks like out in the world after getting my ride pimped. That would be a liability nightmare for the producers.
it wasn't a social media age yet, nobody knew the hazards of having your personal data publicly shown on TV. Internet was only starting to have its intelligence entry barrier lowered. At worst a person would just get bullied by his local peers (e.g. at school or college) and even that was new because whole reality TV thing was new. So privacy concerns weren't that.
The actual downfall of reality TV in 2010s once privacy hazards became overt - IS that.
@@wrmusic8736
I just find it surprising that anyone is surprised that details in a reality TV show in the early 2000s were falsified to increase dramatic effect.
Thank you. It’s TV it’s not real
Especially in the early 2000s nothing was real it’s only sad we were too young to realize but obviously it’s staged
Nothing has changed
The fake house was not to protect contestants, it was for the ease of filming the show. It takes a long time to set up a set for filming. You have to fit a lot of equipment and people.
I always had a feeling that this show was some sort of optical illusion.
New PimpMyRide hosted by Jake Paul 😂😅
Up Next: Why "Ride My Pimp" Never Happened....
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They only ''Pimped My Reich''
I'd watch that
Imagine if it was just another thing chalked up to the Mandela effect
Ay guitaro nice to see you here randomly.
Xzibit was really the cornerstone of the show. He was absolutely great as a host. I'm glad to hear all the contestants liked him, he seems super genuine.
Except he wasn't genuine because he isn't actually a car enthusiast. He is a very good and convincing actor with great charisma.
@@DuncanL7979 yep, he was clearly in it for a paycheck and nothing more. But if contestants said they like him - that means he took no 'direct' part in the misery the show was enforcing on them at least.
@@DuncanL7979 He never claimed to be a car enthusiast.
They always get the popularity vote even when they fxck people over 🥱
@@DuncanL7979 he never claimed to be,,he said the contestants used to think he was because he was the presenter
Lock Up is exactly like that too as I’m sure all “reality” shows are. I was on a couple episodes of Lock Up Extended Stay when I worked at Santa Rosa CI in Florida. They filmed for a year and they would have us escort the same inmate from his cell over and over. They would tell inmates to “look emotional” or “remorseful” in their one on one interviews. I don’t know if they used the footage because I only watched 1 episode of it because the bs was too much to handle but they had me and another officer stand on the second floor catwalk and they told us to put our sunglasses on (even though we were inside) and look stoic and act like we were watching inmates down in the first floor. There were no inmates out of their cells at the time because we were in a close management dorm and they weren’t allowed out at the time because the film crew was there doing door to door interviews. My experience with that show is why I can’t stand to watch any reality shows on tv.
This is literally every single "Reality Show" on TV since the inception of "Reality Shows"
Even when I was a child I was just like... I'm pretty sure they just want a working car. Putting a fish tank in the dashboard just adds an entirely different set of problems 😅
This makes me appreciate Xzibit way more than I already did, he seems so genuine but was put in a weird position, wanting to promote his music career but instead just filming this
Its nice to see him openly talk about it and at times laugh about it years later and he really is a nice and funny guy. Him joking around with the contestants and his funny moments were my most favorite parts of the show.
Xzibit should have got paid big money to host this show. It was massively popular. Joe Rogan was making a million an episode of fear factor Xzibit should have got close to that. I guess MTV doesn't pay like Network TV gigs.
@@Wallyworld30no it does just not to everyone. Nick cannon got paid like 750k per episode and rob from ridiculousness got a heavy pay 2
@@elijah1100 None of these people deserved more than $350 an episode. Xzibit making out like he had a career, motherfucker never did anything of note.
@@Wallyworld30 he just didnt realize his worth and they played him
That’s actually good to know, I remember one episode that had like 6 TV screens in the drivers seat and always wondered how that was safe
Or the one with the hot tub, like wtf was that person supposed to do with that shit inside their car??🤣 And let's not talk about the one with the fishtank, the freaking smell or the dead fish on a hot day!! 🤪
@@deerlord2363 hahaha yup
Well now all new cars have bs screens everywhere
dude yes, my brother was picked as one of the possible people to go on the show and declined once he found out how fake it was and that he would have to be acting and get no actual help with his car
so Xzibit show up to the rented house he was in and he was like no no no gtfo????
@@pimpmyriderevisted nah that mfer ain't part of the casting process? my brother just ain't good at acting unless it actually benefits him 😂
I remember we watched this show as a family back in the day, and I'd get annoyed with my mom because she was constantly commenting on how stupid, unsafe, and unnecessary a lot of the changes they made to the cars were. At the time she was ruining my immersion and I thought she was just being an old person who didn't understand cool shit. But she was absolutely right. It's legit embarrassing looking at this shit now.
She was just commenting on how unsafe and stupid they were, because she was old. But she was also right too.
I think it's kind of like watching fiction though. You turn your brain off regarding certain things. I don't want to hear how it's impossible for Superman to do x, y, or z while I'm watching him do those things. But the difference here is when watching this as a kid the line between fiction and real life is sometimes not well understood.
Go apologize to your mom, because you were stupid
With age comes wisdom ! I still like the show , who cares if a little set up , so are most TV shows , not a massive fan but fun to watch in the UK !
Well it was called pimp my ride.. not tune up my ride
It was a reality show that turned out to be fake. What a twist of irony! By the way, thank you MTV for entertaining us in the 2000's.
The TV Show "Overhaulin" was a reality TV show but actually fixed up the cars mechanics and gave it a dope body touch up too. That was a proper car show.
Zoomers are very ignorant, they have no idea how TV shows or life works.
Overhaulin was entirely fake and made to promote products. The people that got their cars done up sold them off because the increased tax value of the vehicle they couldn't pay for. @@Wallyworld30
@@jesquesan the time when mobile phones became cheaper
My favorite was Wildboyz, good times back then on MTV.
Can we please talk about the REST of the comment Seth left (9:15) about the cotton candy machine? Strippers licking cotton candy off each other with Snoop??
Pan cyan cultivator here…. Love the knowledge. Fungus is so amazing to me
XZibit seems like a genuine and funny dude.
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Was about to reply that. I think real genuine people like him often times don't last long in the limelight because they can tell how superficial and fake that world is.
@@boremir3956and I’m guessing he kind of was forced to continue going with it
I drove him on Uber a few years ago, dude was nice and I even took a selfie with him.
He is
I don't know how anybody thought it WASN'T fake. The clues were everywhere in every episode.
What like?
@@eadweard.Like the obvious fake reactions, the overboard usage of props like the candy all over the back seats... It was all gimmicky and they rarely addressed any mechanical issues on any vehicles.
Everybody is claiming now, in hindsight that "they knew it all along" but the ratings show that they believed it was 100% real.
And you thought my 9yo Ass would Notice that?
@@Mixwell1983As a European kid, it did shape the way I looked at the US. Tbh for years I thought the fake reactions were part of the culture.
MTV from the get-go was Music Television, and somehow, they just lost their way. I was excited to see Xibit do Pimp My Ride, he's a great rapper, I knew who he was....but seeing him talk about it now and the contestants just makes me wonder how many shows back then were contrived... but there is some good TV left, I don't lose hope.
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Till about 6:00 I was like "it was never that serious" only to hear that they took MONTHS to finish the cars, I feel so BETRAYED lol. I legit thought it took like a week, 2 at the most for them to finish the cars. The staged houses make sense because it protects contestant privacy and to protect themselves from any liability.
It wasn't for credibility. They felt the contestants houses weren't nice enough. Or the driveway wasn't big enough or they lived in an apartment. It was entirely for filming purposes.
BETRAYAL!!!! BETRAYED ME!! THIS CAR SUUUUUUUCKS!!!
You feel betrayed? by what? are you mentally unwell? get a fkin grip fam.
Decent paint and bodywork alone takes weeks on a standard car, customising takes months or years.
@@CycolacFan yeah no I get that, but in my 12 yo mind they somehow had tech to speed this process up. The things we let ourselves be believe is amazing lol
Xzibit was a hell of a rapper and sadly this hurt his career. Almost seems like most people didn’t even realize he was a hip hop artist.
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Okay, where do I start?
We had, and still do have, Big Bertha the hot pink and white 1955 Chevy.
We trailored her down from Silicon Valley to try out for the show.
We auditioned in the parking lot at Santa Monica water company.
We then found a cool storage that would allow us to put the car inside while the show made its decision.
3 weeks later we found that we were chosen. We drove down to Los Angeles to do the filming. The house where our car was belonged to a friend of one of the producers.
We had, and still do have, Big Bertha the hot pink and white 1955 Chevy.
We trailored her down from Silicon Valley to try out for the show.
We auditioned in the parking lot at Santa Monica water company. At the time, the car was rust, turquoise and white.
We then found a cool storage that would allow us to put the car inside while the show made its decision.
3 weeks later we found that we were chosen. We drove down to Los Angeles to do the filming. The house where our car was belonged to a friend of one of the producers.
The way it worked is they put 3 separate contestants in 3 separate houses. They would tell contestants if they didn't get chosen to have their ride pimped, to maintain and they would be given coupons and gift cards for various automotive related things.
When Xibit came to the door yes, my daughter had to do a few her reaction a few times because they wanted her to be over the top excited. No big deal.
Then they gave us a rental car to drive back to the Bay area. She drove that up while I drove her car home. The rental was a four banger and totally gutless. Barely made it up 152.
11 days later the car was ready to pick up. We drove back to LA with the truck to trailer it back and the Mustang and the rental car.
We stayed in a local restaurant while she filmed seeing the car for the first time since it was pimped. It took about 6 or 7 hours I think. She said she hang hung out with X looking at some pictures of a Bentley he was checking out in Oakland. Said he's a great guy and very funny.
She had to fly back that night because she was committed to a dance show she was in. I cruised around in the car that night up on Sunset and around Hollywood. Really had a good time, people were flipping out over the car.
The next day, we all left for the Bay Area. We were lucky that because we lived in the Bay, they gave us the car before the show aired on Sunday. We drove it around Silicon Valley a bit and people were flipping out so we told them to catch the show the next night.
A few things did go wrong with the car but we contacted MTV and they made it right. There were no exaggerations or altered stories told. We were asked to leave the stuff that was in the trunk there. It was fine because it was representative of things that my daughter was doing at that time.
We still have the car, we still love the car. Big Bertha has helped at many breast cancer events. We are very grateful to MTV and PMR for doing the car.
Awesome!! That pink Chevrolet Belair of yours is groovy and a symbol for breast cancer awareness events. Does it still have the same aftermarket speakers as of today?
What is "Aircraft Remover" and where can I get some?
Pretty shocking to see the reality behind such a successful show. Your thoroughness in unearthing these details is impressive, certainly checks a reality check for the viewers.
To be fair if you actually do watch Tavarish's video "I bought an abandoned "pimp my ride" Minivan, you would actually be suprised on how much effort when into making the cars.. everything in it actually worked.. for 2005? they had freaking tv's on the floor, on the back of seats, automatic footrests tvs that drop from the cealing, super cool speaker system in the boot. I get SunnyV2's channel and videos are all about hate, but he should include at least some of the good things as well. You can really tell the mechanics and engineers really did work their ass off and put in a ton of effort into these vehicles.
@@SlimStarCraftthat doesn't change the fact that they screwed contestants over in several other ways
@@CornFlex420 yeah they screwed over some contestants which is bad I agree. But the mechanics did work their ass off.
By viewers you mean muricansss 😂
sit down ya zoomer, its a fuckin mtv show
The pistons used to lift the doors kept them from putting seat belts which made it dangerous. Never mind the fact they turned your backseat into a trash compactor
what?
I feel they are all lying. Contestants and production
It was the same story with the UK version. A friend of mine had her Daihatsu Hijet van pimped. They did a custom wood grain theme throughout including the wheels which all flaked off within a few months of her having it back. They built her pet guinea pig a home on the dashboard which she had to remove because it restricted visibility. I’m pretty sure it actually failed its MOT (annual safety inspection) because of it!
And when Tim Westwood (🤮) came with the crew to collect the/film the van they said it wasn’t in bad enough condition so they made it look worse by pulling one of the rear lights out and leaving it hanging by the wires. I think they removed the front bumper too. And then made Abi (my friend) drive it on the road like that so they could film it. Which I personally think was dangerous because the rear lights weren’t working.
They also made her wreck the inside of the van to make it look worse and had her leave rubbish on the seats and floor. Which really annoyed Abi because she’s really OCD and it made her look like a slob on TV
And they had the van for months. She had to rely on family to get to and from work which wasn’t ideal as a 27 year old woman living away from her parents. Oh and they got her to say she was a lot younger than she actually was!
She kept the van for a long time but eventually sold it because things kept going wrong with it. Not necessarily things that PMR did but it wasn’t a very reliable van.
I read an article where a participant explained that stuff was done to the car that he never agreed to. Plus, literally nothing was done to the old engine etc. The car looked good, but underneath it was crap.
there’s a reason they only chose young 20 year olds.. they don’t want to screw over a rich 40 year old, that wouldn’t hold up well in court
nah, it was just the target audience for MTV at the time.
Why would a 40 yr old want his ride "pimped"?...it would have been too cringe.
yeah - they'd want pimp my hair G@@WokeUpToSomeBullshit.
I remember the contestant who had the 24" MTX Jackhammer subwoofer installed in his car mentioning that they removed it along with a TV screen that was installed after the reveal leaving him with a car half filled with a subwoofer box and nothing in it. Seems most of the extras they built around were yanked or were only allowed to be kept if the person paid for it. It really is depressing to learn how fake and destructive to participants the show was. Even Xzibit became nothing more than a meme for it.
That’s what happens with people who don’t develop legitimate, real skills in life. Anyone who feels bad for people like the rapper here (who spells his name incorrectly in English [it is supposed to be spelled “exhibit”]), or contestants who think mtv shows are real, are just people who will win a Darwin award early on in their lives.
This definitely happens with that Fixer Upper show. The reveal with all the amazing furniture and decor... all of that removed unless contestant wants to pay $20,000+ for it all.
It happens on pretty much all TV shows/gameshows where the contestants "win" or are "given" something, they have to pay either taxes or some other kind of "fee" in order to keep the things. These TV people, executives, producers, etc. will never give away anything for free...
@@anti-ethniccleansing465Xzibit spells his stage name the way he does on purpose it’s called a STAGE name and he was an entertainer taking a job in ENTERTAINMENT. His intentionally manipulated stage name has nothing to do with Skills or Intellegence. He was litterally an employee of MTV at the time and has since then continued to do well as an entertainer, including starting an acting career. As for the kids with cars (litterally most of them were around 20-23) of course being on an MTV show at the time and getting their old car ‘pimped’ sounds like a win and most of them have jobs and skills today. There is no need to insult them for what seemed like a fun thing to do in there very early 20s.
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I don’t care how many times you defend losers by repeating lame excuses (i.e. “but muh stage name!” - which always makes it *even more* pathetic when someone *intentionally* misspells their “professional” name... I think it’s adorable though that you think you had to explain to me what a stage name is, and that you thought I wasn’t aware that that was the reason “Xzibit” calls himself that).
All the rappers, gang bangers, and rock stars that do that shit are cringe af.
That's why me and my wife didn't do say yes to the dress. They wanted us to purchase a $10k dress 🤣
9:12 bro how could you possibly ignore that second paragraph 😂😂😂
Having being a contestant is a "reality TV show" myself, I had to learn it the hard way that "reality TV" is almost close to never be "real". In one episode, the producers actually came to me to "ask" me to "act" as a villain, as they said: "you look like you can really pull off the villain character." I was forced to sabotage another contestant, & the contestant was also aware of that. Turned out, the competition was already rigged from the get-go, as the "victim" was already chosen by the producers & the sponsors to be the winner that year. Ever since that stint, I never trusted "reality TV shows" anymore.
What show?
Are you able to say what show it was? I genuinely enjoy reality TV, but I hate when you can tell things have been staged, and I really only want reality TV that actually follows real people doing real things and having real reactions, but how much of that actually exists?
Personally, I would find REAL reality TV far more interesting from a psychological/sociological perspective than a bunch of staged drama manufactured by bullshit producers.
Probably "Survivor"
I don't trust that show
Sounds like an irrelevant and made up show
@@ali-vj3mk we get it. Your life is boring and uneventful, so anyone who has stories are obviously lying
I was in a fox kids show once in the Netherlands almost 30 years ago, it went completly the same way as described here, fake houses, fake parents, fake teams and fake reactions, but instead of adults it was with 10 to 12 year old kids thinking they are competing for something 😒
Couple years later I ran into an interview crew for a daily show about weird news called "man bite dog", they asked to tell your weirdest story and film it in a booth, after that they tell you a story and ask to tell that and they film that as well, take a geuss what is aired and what is not 😜
To be honost I know people want entertaining content, but it's harsh to learn that almost everything is faked for the sake of views
Was the show called Kanker Kaaskop ?
yes all reality shows are fake,
Thank you for sharing your experience!
It's incredible how many people believe whatever TV tells them to believe and what to consume, even if you don't need it.
And it's the same with the internet, some "influencer" with zero credibility puts some shady information out there and people believe it or they will sell you some useless crap and NPCs will buy it, just because they like said influencer.
Even fake content (pranks, money, cars or other prize give away) and people believe is entirely real.
Our society has been turned into a bunch of brainless consumers...
My siblings and I watched this show when I was in high school. It was the era when MTV stopped playing a lot of music and pivoted into the reality TV scene. We loved it! I was just a teenager and had no idea about car mechanics. I loved cars but had never worked on any (in my country you get your driver's license at age 18). I was also a big XZibit fan back then too.
Thanks for this upload. Over the years I've owned around 10 cars - a mix of older and newer models. As an adult I understand that those crazy pimps were dumb and what they did to those cars were things I would not want done in mine at all. To a teenager, a candy floss machine in your car looked cool. Massive 22" wheels were also amazing. That was until I grew up and had to change my first set of tyres. I complained about 13". How the hell can a poor person afford to replace 22" rims? Yeah they look nice and shiney, but maintenance on those upgrades would have been nasty!
Can you please tell us what country you’re from, where you can’t get your drivers license until you’re 18 years old, you spell tires as tyres, and cotton candy is called “candy floss.”
22”s on a car don't look nice, they look fucking lame and ghetto af...
IDK why people think that reality TV is reality.
I grew up watching this and it was super obvious it was scripted. I didn't know people thought it was real. You have to remember this was during a time when you watched what was on TV and out of the 60 channels there was only 5-6 that showed anything I liked so when Pimp My Ride came on it was exciting. We didn't have unlimited options with things like YT and Netflix so it made bad shows seem good.
I feel they are all lying. Contestants and production
Right. I was just a kid when this show was on, and me and my friends thought the outlandish impracticality was pretty funny and that was it. We reckoned it was basically like pro wrestling; you knew all the stories were outrageous inventions but you watched it cuz it was entertaining, and as you said, entertainment was relatively sparse back then, lol.
@@underlightmusic
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We had On-Demand and satellite 📡
Man quit lying , u believed it was real too.
I remember watching PMR as a kid, and being so mind blown by the cars. Now that I’m 24, I now see through the deception of “reality Tv”. It makes me sad that once you learn the truth things will never be the same. Makes you wonder if tv specifically targets kids, or stupid people
Sorry but you are totally wrong
@@superbro3491 I think you replied to the wrong person
@@LamarcusElwood wrong
TV shows, especially reality shows, do target stupid people.
Learn how TVs (the electronics) work and how they keep you hooked watching, TV stations obviously use this to broadcast trash TV shows and advertise garbage that stupid people will watch and buy. Sad but true...
@@superbro3491please elaborate further…
What wasn't staged is the fact that Erin loves food. She ballooned up 3 times bigger than she was in her season 4 episode.
"As for Xzibit, he was lovely - high as a kite and lovely." Lmao
I watched this show all the time as a kid, i remember my dad (who built a couple trucks and worked on cars) give absolutely disgusted and confused looks at the screen. This video explains everything now 😂
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As a 10 year old back then i believed everything and thought it was cool as shit, now knowing it was all bs kinda hurts a lil ngl
Eye-opening video but also sad. As a child at the time, I LIVED for this show. When it came on, everything else stopped. To think that it was fake... that's just awful.
It's nice to see Xzibit openly talk about it and sometimes laugh about it years later.
Xzibit may have been the face of 'Pimp My Ride' but it was the producers who faked everything. Xzibit shouldn't face any backlash at all...its shocking.
May've*, it's a contraction of "may have". "May of" makes no sense and is incorrect.
Who is Xzibit he's not a name of a person
Xzibit is a well-known rapper from the West Coast. From the late 90's to mid 2000's, he was pretty much on top of the world.@@Abigblueworld
I've never seen or heard anyone actually express negativity about him or his role in the show. Maybe if you count the "yo dawg" jokes.
@@AbigblueworldHe's the host, that's probably his stage name
I always thought that this has to be fake because we never saw or heard of the reactions to the cars back in the winner's possession back in their home surroundings.
The best part was when Exit , i mean Exodus knocked on the door , their reaction was priceless !
Shout out to
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Isn't it funny how we've reached a point where the most fake shows on TV are called "Realities"?
Same applies to Christianity lol
been like this for a while.
Same with democracy !
Telling the contestants that it might be a production member telling them no knocking on the door to get a genuine reaction is genius. The actual excitement was a big part of the show.
pray to thy tommy parky! non believers 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You struck out with these bots.
stop
Sunnyv2 inspires me, my parents said if I get 30k followers here. They'd buy me a better camera for recording.. begging u guys, literally begging
@@MbitaChizi I AM BETTER
A show that has cameras ? A director ? A host ? That is scripted?? Shocking !!
Wait? Nothing is real coming from the TV?
No
No
I used to love this show back in the 2000s and really did enjoy it. I found Xzibit to be a great host, and I'm glad to know that the contestants think he's actually great. Even back then, I knew that things were staged and such, but never knew it was this fake.
I saw it a few times back in the early 2000's, but I can't go asfar as saying that I ever liked or enjoyed though it was awful 😂
Show was Nice If it would've happened as we thought it happened. Real reacțions everytime. Fast repairs and make the preselecțion with question first u have a house with Nice entrance . But tbh this last one not a problem. Some dislogues intervention naah. But reacțions...damn.and these inconviniences ... Disappointing..
I can tell you it is 100%.
My co workers son was the kid with the “gambling van”. She told me is was the most fake thing she’s ever seen in her life.
They chose her son. Contacted him and scheduled him to bring the van to a random rented house “shoot location” and leave it there for a few days. Wasn’t even his real car, he bought it to be in the show.
He then went there on the film day, show his fake reaction 100 times. Xibit wasn’t even there. After they shot pretty much everything. Xibit came and did his thing for 30 minutes and dipped. They got b role shots and called it a rap.
They took his car and kept it for months. Finished it and called him. For more filming of reactions and to finish it all. Again Xibit showed up for 30 minutes and took off.
After, they took half of his stuff off the car that was worth anything. Then what they left in there didn’t even work or broke after a few months. He was paid for being on TV and he sold the van.
She said it was the most shallow and weird thing he’s ever done. As fake as it gets and a complete waste of time.
Bro you're making it up, it's 80%, the 20% is it's in real life and isn't all script.
@@Abigblueworld I’m literally just telling you what his mom told me when we worked together.
Idk why you’re getting upset, especially when what I said was literally confirmed by other contestants in the video 🤣
bro wtf@@mrmidnight32
Why would xzibit need to be there for the whole thing just waiting around??
These people are extremely entitled... You had the option to decline... They gave you 2k for a rental... They made your car better than it was before(even if you don't like the color/design)... I have no sympathy for the guests, they expected to get thousands of dollars of upgrades to their car for free and manage to complain when it was not to their liking.... Fuck these people...
Let’s revisit this show
Ok, find me a former contestant who gained 300 lbs and make her hold a snake during the interview 😂
This is kinda to be expected when we are talking about 90s TV show :D
This is actually the reality of nearly all “reality” TV…
nah edited dialog filming mulitiple angles is pretty much expected.
@@toomanyaccounts yes… that’s exactly what this video is depicting..
I actually remember one of the main reasons of younger me loving Pimp My Ride sometimes wasn't even the car, it was Xzibit. Guy takes the whole thing seemingly well, but damn, to have so many things taken by the show AND getting the heat for the exposed truth.
Extra cigarette butts got me lol.
I had a Caddy once and was told to send it to PMR but I declined because I didnt want the word "pimp" associated with my car.
Xzibit seems like a really nice dude. Always liked his energy
Thanks for exposing the dark underworld of tv production! 😱
I always loved how they put displays even on the fck bumpers but never once opened the hood and do anything with the engine.
I've heard whispers similar to these stories back in the days from coworkers that constantly traveled to car shows. I thought what I heard was lies. 18 years later only to find out EVERYTHING I heard was TRUE !!!!!!
It took you 18 years to find out the truth? Damn bro...
@@deerlord2363 SMH, Yep....I believed the smoke and mirrors
I was actually going to be on the show, but I went too boot camp and got the letter from the producers while there. It was a mixed blessing though because while I was there I learned that any customization of vehicles has to he approved if I intended to drive my kia on base and "Trunk televisions and excessive chrome" were explicitly prohibited lol
Kia lol get a pickup homie. Where you gonna keep your guns in a Kia?
Imagine believing everything on "Reality TV" is real
Making you do a cartwheel for xhibit is wild
now i wasn't much of a Reality TV fan but i did enjoyed Pimp My Ride despite despite controversy i didn't know until years later! Xzibit had some of tha best improv dialog there is, though it's a shame they didn't do him nor tha contestants right behind tha scenes 😢too bad because me and my grandma god rest her soul loved to laugh at tha people who was pimpin' tha car with their improv jokes on tha fly
Back then It didn't matter if it was faked. It was just fun as hell to watch.
It doesn't matter now. Zoomers like to find so much shit to be upset about that happened 20 years before they were born because they are that ignorant. Imagine when they find out about the WWF.
indeed, i have to a certain degree of memories watching reruns with my brother while in Puerto Rico during the summer lol.
People did not have internet, so it was easier to fake shows and get away with it
"People did not have internet" lol get out of here with your ignorant ass. @@frankdald8462
@@frankdald8462 IMO the opposite's the case, look at Daily Dose of Internet, millions of people don't realise that nearly every one of those animal clips is just some idiot training their pet to do something dumb. Soon we're going to have AI deep fakes of everything & we won't know what's real & what isn't. Every actor, male or female, young or old, if you want to see them naked in a porno, the AI will create it.