Xzibit
Look at the Prius. It's a nerd car. Yeah, you're being environmentally friendly, but your dating life is gonna suck.Collection: Dating
I'm doing things that feel good to my soul. I've had plenty opportunity to do other things, but it didn't feel right, and it wasn't right. And if it feels like work, then it's work. But if you have that opportunity to do what you love, and you can make a living out of it, then that's a blessing and I never take that for granted.Collection: Work
I am the first millionaire in my family.Collection: Family
Being broke and being in the street does not mean that you're keeping it real. I think that everybody that lives in a non-wealthy neighbourhood spends their time and energy trying to do everything they can to better their living standards. I'm no different.
I've never been to prison. I've been to jail but never prison. I don't like being in holding tanks. I don't like being in shackles. I'm a smarter guy than that. I can figure something out to do better with my time.
I know what it feels like to be treated incorrectly.
I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.
I did 'XXX: State of the Union' with Ice Cube because he and Samuel L. Jackson are some of favorite inspirations in life.
Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging, you're doing something good.
Busta Rhymes is my brother from another mother.
How can you not like the Lakers?
When you glorify yourself to the point where you can't relate to a regular person, then you distort your expectations and your values.
I did not go to college.
I want to support myself legally, and take advantage of the opportunities and organize and benefit from those choices.
Xavier Kingston was my second born son and he passed away prematurely. He lived for 13 days then he passed.
The experiences that I've had in the music industry have given me a learning curve.
Once you mature you start wanting different things out of life and wanting different things for yourself.
Dr Dre has never told me a lie. I look up to him, not only as a business man, but just as someone who has become his own man in this business. He's always recognised the hard-working ethic that I have and given me opportunities based on that.
Music is the best way I can express myself, meaning that why I write and how I came to love music comes out through Xzibit. Who I am, who Alvin Joiner is, comes out when I pick up that pen and write.
The man I was when I was 18 and 19, when I really wasn't a man, is not the man I am now.
The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.
I don't really care what people think of me.
You know, social media unites us with our fans, gets the middle man out of the way, and you get to directly hear what they think.
I've been in an artist position. I've been in a management position.
The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.
As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.
I've made some leaps and bounds as an underground artist.
I took a strong stand to get away from Sony Records.
I sold 2 million records on Loud, which was one-tenth of the size of Sony.
We had to pull some strings to get off of Sony.
I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.
I've always had a lot of respect for E-40.
To put it in a nutshell, I'm known for basically killin' the rhymes, you know what I'm sayin,' goin' for it.
Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.
Once you realize security can't even secure themselves, how the hell they gonna secure you?
Every project, I try to go up another level.
When I did 'Restless,' I felt that was a stepping stone.
I'm one of those cats who could listen to Public Enemy and then pop that out and throw an NWA tape in there.
Whatever was banging, I would listen to it.
I've definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared and put out there.
The things I used to say when I was 18, 19 or 20 aren't the things I'm feeling now, you know?
It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition and be given the opportunities I've been given.
We been bubblin' in the Los Angeles underground for years.
I think I've overcome a lot, and I feel like 'Man vs. Machine' was a fitting title to personify that struggle.
I feel like the first album contained a lot of personal songs, like 'The Foundation' or 'Carry the Weight.'
When I'm headlining something like the Up in Smoke Tour, that's when I'm headlining something.
Dre was extremely involved in 'Restless,' but I told him that the next record had to be called 'Man Vs. Machine' because I have specific topics and ways to work my writing for that topic.
Restless' was something totally different, and I couldn't use the same material. 'Man Vs. Machine' is scientific. It's broken down in a whole different way.
I have always been aware of my surroundings.
Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.