What The Fuck Is Wrong With Xzibit's Full Circle Album???

[Lunatic]

The only tracks were I ain't feelin the beat is the whole world, concentrate, movin in your chucks & ram part division, but the idea of ram part division is so brilliant, it's tough to hate on.

This seemed to be the consensus; I have been waiting for someone to speak up about the Sly Boogy track “Walk with My Dogs,” but no one has, so here it is.  Check it out, and let me know if you still think Xzibit and Quik were original with Rampart Division.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fmpu7t

Xzibit is not struggling to get by; he now has money and other legitimate forms of income, consequently I think that the level of hunger and his presence on the microphone have decreased.  At the Speed of Life and 40 Dayz and 40 Nightz receive regular play from me, but I think that Restless was the first album where Xzibit had really “made it,” and it was the downfall of his style that I enjoy.  I do not listen to anything post-Restless because if I want to hear Xzibit, I want to feel that raw energy in his first two albums.

About the boogy track, that concept isn't nearly as washed up as a track that X could of done instead of Rampart Division like "Sippin 40s" or "Fuck a Bitch" or even "I'll Put Cha In Da Ground" or whatever.

X ain't got a single wack album man

[The King]

The whole album is really awful. Theirs no energy in X's voice, the beats are OK, the overall production is pretty bad, the concepts of the tracks is very poor, no unifying idea of the album. Compared to Restless or MvM or even WOMD, this is a very poorly done album from front to back.

I thought Quik feel off, but Xzibit feel off almost worse then DPG.

"Thank you" is probably the worst piece of trash ever recorded. Sounds like a sappy intro to a after school special. You can tell hes trying to hard to make a meaningful song, its really bad when artists try to hard and come up with nothing.

WOW AT THANK YOU

I'm usually down for agreeing to dis-agree but most certainly not in this case. From my understanding your beef is with the production on the song, I think it's extremely clear that the beat is the way it is, so the song 100% focuses on the lyrics of the song. Why lace a track with such great lyrics & meaning, with a beat that may draw attention away from the verses??? Easily 1 of X's greatest songs EVER 

The message of the song is their, but the beat was really overly emotional, it just didn't mesh. I guess the real problem with this album is, no stand out track. I bump "Criminal Set" all the time, or "Lose your mind" and much of Restless. But this album lacked a single, and lacked any stand out track. Every track is equal to the one before it. I just happen to think their all equally bad, you may think equally good. The whole "Pimp my Ride" TV show has really thrown me off.

For the sake of comparison, lets compare Ice Cube and Xzibit. Both are probably on everyones top 10 westcoast rappers. Both took 3 or 4 years off their music career to work on movies, TV, etc. Both returned with brand new solo efforts in 2006. Both completely re-evented themselves, worked with new people, and released independent albums. But Ice Cubes was miles better in every way. I don't think Xzibit put a lot of time into this.

[Lunatic]

The whole album is really awful. Theirs no energy in X's voice, the beats are OK, the overall production is pretty bad, the concepts of the tracks is very poor, no unifying idea of the album. Compared to Restless or MvM or even WOMD, this is a very poorly done album from front to back.

I thought Quik feel off, but Xzibit feel off almost worse then DPG.

"Thank you" is probably the worst piece of trash ever recorded. Sounds like a sappy intro to a after school special. You can tell hes trying to hard to make a meaningful song, its really bad when artists try to hard and come up with nothing.

WOW AT THANK YOU

I'm usually down for agreeing to dis-agree but most certainly not in this case. From my understanding your beef is with the production on the song, I think it's extremely clear that the beat is the way it is, so the song 100% focuses on the lyrics of the song. Why lace a track with such great lyrics & meaning, with a beat that may draw attention away from the verses??? Easily 1 of X's greatest songs EVER 

The message of the song is their, but the beat was really overly emotional, it just didn't mesh. I guess the real problem with this album is, no stand out track. I bump "Criminal Set" all the time, or "Lose your mind" and much of Restless. But this album lacked a single, and lacked any stand out track. Every track is equal to the one before it. I just happen to think their all equally bad, you may think equally good. The whole "Pimp my Ride" TV show has really thrown me off.

For the sake of comparison, lets compare Ice Cube and Xzibit. Both are probably on everyones top 10 westcoast rappers. Both took 3 or 4 years off their music career to work on movies, TV, etc. Both returned with brand new solo efforts in 2006. Both completely re-evented themselves, worked with new people, and released independent albums. But Ice Cubes was miles better in every way. I don't think Xzibit put a lot of time into this.

I don't think the album lacked a single, I just think X made a poor choice in selecting one. On Bail or even Family Values would of been a nice look on Bet/Mtv.

On Bail had a hook from T-Pain (who has been doin really well for himself), a verse from a popular rapper in Game, and even Daz adds his little bit

Cool comparision, but I think the quality of there latest albums is closer then you do, but Cube does take the cake

[acgrundy]

horrible album...by light years worst xzibit album

[Low Key]

I listened to the album once and really didn't feel the urge to listen to it again. The beats are lackluster, and X raps like it's just a hobby to him. Plus, the first single was annoying as hell. It just seemed to me that the whole album was more or less just thrown together. Full Circle was a huge disappointment following up WOMD.

exactly why I said I had a feeling ppl hated on it

I understand there's other reasons why you dis-liked it (you stated them) but like I said, I think it's just in our nature, to set ourselves up in a posistion to make our mind up to hate the album, if the single(s) are wack

I love WOMD, and it is better then Full Circle, but far from a disapointment IMO.

I don't listen to the radio though, so it's not like it got played out to me. I think the song just plain sucks. "Hey Now" from WOMD was a terrible first single too, but the rest of album I can almost listen to straight through.

[wcsoldier]

This album is just awful, the production is HORRIBLE.. anyways X hasn't made a consistent since Restless (WOMD and MVM have very good songs but lots of fillers too)

[Lil White Azz]

Yeah, I gotta admit too, that this is xzibit's worst album by far, and overall, the production isn't good enough....I listen to this sometimes, but I really can't listen to this album throughout.....

[stanoye]

the restless is his best album

[Diggfinger]

aint nothing really *wrong* with it. It was just straight up boring if you ask me. The tracks I heard from aint does differ from what other rappers havent done a zillion times before.

[GunMaster G-9]

Persnoally i didnt dig the album. I know he can prouduce better music than this album.

[jeromechickenbone]

I didn't like Concentrate at all.  In fact I hated it because of what it stood for.  It was a blatant attempt to do the type of single that everyone else was doing.  So after that, I lost interest. 

[Lil White Azz]

I didn't like Concentrate at all.  In fact I hated it because of what it stood for.  It was a blatant attempt to do the type of single that everyone else was doing.