{"id":2322,"date":"2025-06-02T06:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/06\/02\/xzibit-credits-one-album-with-changing-musical-landscape\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:31:26","slug":"xzibit-credits-one-album-with-changing-musical-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/06\/02\/xzibit-credits-one-album-with-changing-musical-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Xzibit Credits One Album With Changing Musical Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Xzibit<\/a> released his first album in 13 years, Kingmaker<\/em>, in May. The 20-track effort featured production by Dem Jointz, Battlecat, Swizz Beatz, will.i.am., Focus\u2026, Beat Butcha and several others.<\/p>\n

Notably, it also reunited Xzibit with Dr. Dre, who nearly signed him to Aftermath Entertainment in the late \u201990s\/early 2000s, but Loud Records CEO\/founder Steve Rifkind wouldn\u2019t let him out of his contract at the time.<\/p>\n

Dre wound up more of a collaborator and mentor instead of his label boss. That relationship has continued to flourish for more than two decades.\u00a0In a recent interview with AllHipHop<\/em>, the admiration Xzibit has for Dr. Dre was palpable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my brother,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you are a fan of someone, when you look at someone and admire their art, craftsmanship and expertise from afar, it\u2019s a different feeling when you are able to connect with that person and actually be part of that journey. That\u2019s what\u2019s happened to me\u2014being from afar and then being able to be invited into the circle and be considered an essential part of what\u2019s being built is a great feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo him allowing me to be part of that journey on a professional side is awesome but then being able to connect with him on a human level and be able to have long conversations about life and decision-making and grown man s###, that\u2019s my fam.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Xzibit, who only recently finalized his divorce from Krista Joiner, has done a lot of growing in the years since 2012\u2019s Napalm,<\/em> which is evident on Kingmaker<\/em>. On the single \u201cPlay This at My Funeral,\u201d he confronts his own mortality while having a new perspective on where life has taken him.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamn, it feels good to be alive,\u201d he raps. \u201cRecognized I was better off, blessing in disguise\/Yeah, I will shoot you right between the eyes, take a selfie with your corpse, eating a burger with some fries\/Damn, I think I need to exercise, cause I gained a little weight but s### my pockets are straight, b####\/Rebirth, triple my worth, cause everything is possible on God\u2019s green earth.\u201d<\/p>\n