Best rap album I've ever heard!!

I picked up a used copy of this CD from my local CD store for 8 bucks. I was expecting it to be good, but I got way more then I expected. This CD is by far, the best rap album I've ever heard, beating out competion from 2Pac (Better Dayz) Eminem, 50, Obie, D12, G-Unit, Dilated Peoples, Danger Mouse, and more. It's amazing!! THere are four songs on this album that would've become instant hits, had they been released on a more commercial rappers album. They are Handle Your Buisness (My new favorite rap song) Focus, Deeper, and Recycled Assasins. If they'd been released on a more commercial rapper's album, like Eminem, 2Pac, or 50 Cent, they would become legendary rap songs!! This is definitly a CD that no one who enjoys rap should pass up!! The only thing is, if you get the clean version, there'll be a lot of blank spots.



This album is so good, that today my friend, who had listened to my copy of this, and was listening to my copy of The Marshall Mathers LP, listened to a few songs on the MMLP, and he's like "Screw Eminem, lemme listen to that Xzibit again."

second album from Xzibit - maybe his best (4.5 stars)

Xzibit returns two years after his debut (which is the only Xzibit album I haven't heard) and this may be my favorite X to the Z album (a toss up with his 2000 release "Restless"). He was just a lot more hungry back in the days. 6 of the 13 songs have guests on them, and the guests are well known (mostly) and they are good. The production is handled by many different people, and it is also good. There are no tracks that I skip, one classic, 7 or 8 good songs, and about 4 that are o.k. A must have album for all rap fans.



#2 - 10 (classic w/ a great beat by Sir Jinx)

#3 - 8 (f/ Golden State (Ras Kass & Saafir))

#4 - 8

#5 - 7.5 (f/ Defari)

#6 - 8 (f/ Montage One)

#7 - 9.5 (f/ Jayo Felony & Method Man -- good beat by Soopafly)

#9 - 9 (funny song about mushrooms)

#10 - 9

#12 - 7.5

#13 - 7

#14 - 8 (about an inside job robbery)

#15 - 8.5 (f/ King T & Alkaholiks)

#16 - 9 (f/ Montage One)



Alvin Nathaniel Joyner -- b. Detroit, MI moved to Los Angeles, CA

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This album was almost as hot as Mark McGwire in summer 1998

In the middle of the West Coast saturday reviews but I will do all 5 Xzibit albums."Chamber Music" is absolutely sick and is very nice."3 Card Molly" is some how actually better and has a perfect beat to it and when you get Saafir and Ras Kass you have a classic song."What you see is what you get" was one of the best video's if not the best of 1998 and is also a great single."Handle your bussiness" also has a great beat to it and he kills this one to."Nobody Sounds like me" has a experimental beat(I love experimental beats) I wish the had beats like this on his new albums."P**** Pop" is that Method Man."Shroomz" messes up the album with a bad beat and bad lyrics."Focus" gets back on focus with a nice beat and nice lyrics."Deeper" has a beat that sounds like it was made underground and is experimental."Los Angeles Times" is obviosly a look at LA up close."Let it Rain" has a sick beat and hot rhymes to go with it."Recycled Assasins" has a great beat to it.I really do not know anything about Thayoud Auser or Jesse West but they did a great job.If Xzibit would of actaully had fun on here it would have been even better.He used energy but not excitement.

Lyrics 9.5 Production 10 X Factor 7 Classic 9 Replay 9

This was a hard one to score but it was worth a solid 4 1/2