Xzibit Discography Review (D~Nice Edition)

[d-nice]

  1. Grand Opening (Interlude)
  2. At The Speed Of Life
  3. Just Maintain
  4. Eyes May Shine
  5. Positively Negative
  6. Don't Hate Me (Interlude)
  7. Paparazzi
  8. Foundation, The
  9. Mrs. Crabtree (Interlude)
  10. Bird's Eye View
  11. Hit & Run (Part II)
  12. Carry The Weight
  13. Plastic Surgery
  14. Enemies & Friends
  15. Last Words (Interlude)

The debut album from X. Alot of beats done by E-Swift, Muggs, Diamond D and others. While most thought the beats were a little weak on the album, I thought they were pretty good. 2 classic cuts, Foundation and Paparazzi. Great debut album from X, he flexed his lyrical muscle throughout on this.




  1. Intro (The Last Night)
  2. Chamber Music
  3. 3 Card Molly - (featuring Ras Kass/Saafir)
  4. What U See Is What U Get
  5. Handle Your Business - (featuring Defari Herut)
  6. Nobody Sound Like Me - (featuring Montageone)
  7. Pu**y Pop - (featuring Jayo Felony/Method Man)
  8. Chronic Keeping 101 (Interlude)
  9. Shroomz
  10. Focus
  11. Jason (48 Months Interlude)
  12. Deeper
  13. Los Angeles Times
  14. Inside Job
  15. Let It Rain - (featuring Tha Alkaholiks/King T)
  16. Recycled Assassins - (featuring Montageone)
  17. Outro

This album is alot darker than his first. Personal classic IMO. 3 Card Molly is as good as it gets as far as posse cuts. Was really looking forward to a Goldyn State Warriors album after hearing this but it never happened. Soopafly, Thayod, Jinx, E-Swift, and Bud'da crafted beats. Dope lyrical content and storytelling on this album, not as personal as his first but this album really put peeps on notice that X was one of the best on the west.



  1. Intro / Restless - (featuring X)
  2. Front 2 Back
  3. Been A Long Time - (featuring Nate Dogg)
  4. U Know - (featuring Dr. Dre)
  5. X - (featuring Snoop Dogg)
  6. Alkaholik - (featuring Erick Sermon/J-Ro/Tash)
  7. Kenny Parker Show 2001 - (featuring KRS-One)
  8. D.N.A. (Drugs N Alkahol) - (featuring Snoop Dogg)
  9. Double Time
  10. Don't Approach Me - (featuring Eminem)
  11. Rimz & Tirez - (featuring Defari/Goldie Loc/Kokane)
  12. Fuckin' You Right
  13. Best Of Things
  14. Get Your Walk On
  15. Sorry I'm Away So Much - (featuring Suga Free/DJ Quik)
  16. Loud & Clear - (featuring Butch Cassidy/Defari/King T)

Xzibit appearing on Bitch Please on Snoop's album and making appearances on 2001 was the perfect platform to drop this album. Dr. Dre's beats with X's aggressive, commanding flow and presence were the perfect marriage. One of the best produced albums I have heard out west and the lyrics were just as dope. I liked how X walked the fine line of backpack/gangsta rap on this. This album showed you could have Dre, Snoop, etc that are gangsta with a Eminem, X, Tha Liks which is more lyrical. Em and X did they thing on Don't Approach Me. So many classic tracks on here. I battle with myself all the time on if this is better than his 2nd one.



  1. Release Date
  2. Symphony In X Major - (featuring Dr. Dre)
  3. Multiply - (featuring Nate Dogg)
  4. Break Yourself
  5. Heart Of Man
  6. Harder - (featuring Golden State Project)
  7. Paul
  8. Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair)
  9. Losin' Your Mind - (featuring Snoop Dogg)
  10. BK To LA - (featuring M.O.P.)
  11. My Name - (featuring Eminem/Nate Dogg)
  12. Gambler, The - (featuring Anthony Hamilton)
  13. Missin' U - (featuring Andre "Dre Boogie" Wilson)
  14. Right On
  15. Bitch A** Niggaz - (interlude, featuring Eddie Griffin)
  16. Enemies
   DISC 2: BONUS DISC:
  1. My Life, My World - (featuring Traci Nelson)
  2. What A Mess
  3. Where It Hurts, (Hit U)

I don't know, this album sounded rushed to me. Alot of good cuts but something was just missing from this one. This is also around the time X had a falling out with Tha Liks so no E-Swift on this one. Dre did some nice beats along with Rick Rock and Jellyroll. Delete a couple of cuts and add the bonus cuts, including the Premo cut What A Mess and it would have been better. Not a horrible album, just not one of my favorites from X.



  1. State Of The Union
  2. LAX
  3. Cold World
  4. Saturday Night Live - (featuring Jelly Roll)
  5. Mutha*****
  6. Beware Of Us - (featuring Strong Arm Steady)
  7. Judgement Day
  8. Criminal Set
  9. Hey Now (Mean Muggin) - (featuring Keri Hilson)
  10. Ride Or Die
  11. Crazy Ho - (featuring Strong Arm Steady)
  12. Big Barking
  13. Tough Guy - (featuring Busta Rhymes)
  14. Scent Of A Woman
  15. Klack
  16. Back 2 The Way It Was

WOMD was more of a return to a darker sound. Me and the homie Lunatic (what up pimpin  ) always talk about this. The Strong Arm Steady cuts were good IMO on here but other than that the sound is very dark and hard hitting. Jinx, Jellyroll and Hi-Tek really did some dope beats on here and X was in top form on here. Cold World on here is criminally slept on. X was in rare form on that cut. This album gets alot of criticism but I liked it.



  1. Invade My Space - (with Jelly Roll)
  2. Rollin' - (with Jelly Roll)
  3. Ram Part Division
  4. Say It To My Face - (with Kurupt)
  5. Donnell Rawlings Show, The (Skit)
  6. Scandalous B******
  7. Concentrate
  8. On Bail - (with The Game, Daz Dillinger)
  9. Family Values
  10. Black & Brown - (with Jelly Roll)
  11. Whole World, The
  12. Poppin' Off - (with DJ Quik)
  13. Movin' In Your Chucks - (with Too Short, Kurupt)
  14. Thank You

Everything about this album was wrong. The lack of promo, the rushed sound to it, just the overall product. With that said, I actually can listen to alot of the tracks on here. Jelly Roll handled most of the beats, which makes most upset but I thought Invade My Space and The Whole World were bangers. Rampart Division was very innovative, one of the few tracks that shows life from a cop's perspective. Scandalous Bitches was dope also. Easily X's weakest album but it does have its moments.

So for me his best to worst go in this order:

Restless
40 Dayz (but catch me on another day and these could flip flop)
At The Speed Of Life
WOMD
Man Vs Machine
Full Circle

Overall X has a dope catalog. I liked his 1st 2 with a heavy influences from his Likwit days and the ones during his Dre heyday. Hopefully with X's next album he will have more cohesiveness and more direction then the last one. And hopefully he will have some appearances from the Likwit Crew.

[d-nice]

Nice,I enjoy reading these personal breakdowns of artists discogs.
I'm not biggest Xzibit fan,never the less I pretty much agree with everything in your review.

Yeah I was a huge X fan during the Likwit era. I felt like it was a gift and a curse to a certain extent when he got with Dre. Lyrically he was still on point but at times it seemed like he was trying to emulate that gangsta persona. red and blue rags in his booklet, c walking at concerts. But overall I do enjoy his music.

[K.Dub]

+1 D

[kingston]

X was always dope to my but is 2 latest album's are wack i can't even listen to full circle.. i was so dissapoint whit this one ...

[HEC]

nice review D, I thought Xzibit peaked with Restless he put it all together on that one after that I thought his albums were very inconsistent but up to that point it looked like X was on his way to being one of the alltime greats of the West Coast

[Philip1123]

Good job and a fun read. Nice way to sum it all up. I agreed with most of what you wrote, you had some very good points there...

[Lunatic]

+1 D
nice review
i pretty much agree with everything said
WOMD = dope

[d-nice]

+1 D
nice review
i pretty much agree with everything said
WOMD = dope

Yeah WOMD gets alot of heat from people. I enjoyed that album, thought it was one of the better ones from that year.

[d-nice]

Up next from me, Discography reviews of Tha Alkaholiks

[Fuck Your Existence]

+1 D
nice review
i pretty much agree with everything said
WOMD = dope

props to both yall.WOMD is underrated like a muh fucka. has many bangers...nice review over all D.

[d-nice]

+1 D
nice review
i pretty much agree with everything said
WOMD = dope

props to both yall.WOMD is underrated like a muh fucka. has many bangers...nice review over all D.

Props 2 u also. Yeah I am playing WOMD right now. I remember I was out in Arizona went this came out. Bumped it the whole weekend.

[Fuck Your Existence]

+1 D
nice review
i pretty much agree with everything said
WOMD = dope

props to both yall.WOMD is underrated like a muh fucka. has many bangers...nice review over all D.

Props 2 u also. Yeah I am playing WOMD right now. I remember I was out in Arizona went this came out. Bumped it the whole weekend.

word...i bought two copies...lost the first somehow,copped it again then immediately found the first one lol..the trip is,normally i would have been mad as fuck but to me it was such a solid album i didnt even trip

[d-nice]

It's a shame X ain't with Strong Arm Steady anymore. He gave the group that harder edge to it.

[Lunatic]

It's a shame X ain't with Strong Arm Steady anymore. He gave the group that harder edge to it.

yeah for sure
somethin missin without em
once agian i gotta say fuck the hate WOMD gets...i don't understand why at all, seriously

[d-nice]

It's a shame X ain't with Strong Arm Steady anymore. He gave the group that harder edge to it.

yeah for sure
somethin missin without em
once agian i gotta say fuck the hate WOMD gets...i don't understand why at all, seriously

I don't understand it, but oh well. Ride Or Die is amazing. Mr. Porter dropped a heater for a beat.