Full Circle (Xzibit album)
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2006 |
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| Label (s) | Open Bar Entertainment / Straight From The Shoulders Music, Inc. / KOCH Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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14/17 |
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58 min 56 s / 71 min 23 s |
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Full Circle is a music album by the US rapper Xzibit .
It was released in 2006 on the labels Open Bar Entertainment , Straight from the Shoulders Music, Inc. & KOCH Records and is assigned to the rap genre , more precisely to West Coast rap .
History of origin
Full Circle is Xzibit's sixth album. It is the first album by his own label Open Bar Entertainment. The album is mainly influenced by the producer Jelly Roll, who produced four of the 14 songs, played three of them himself and acted as executive producer. He also experimented with the club sound that was popular in the USA at the time , such as Hyphy, a kind of West Coast crunk . Furthermore, in the run-up to publication, he repeatedly emphasized that the texts would be more mature in order to express his more adult worldview.
Although Xzibit split up with Sony BMG Music Entertainment after five albums in a dispute (see Weapons of Mass Destruction ), this label took over distribution in Europe, as KOCH Records does not have its own distribution there.
Track list
- Invade My Space - 5:17 am
- * With jelly roll
- * Produced by Jelly Roll
- Rollin ' - 4:11
- * With jelly roll
- * Produced by Jelly Roll
- Ram Part Division - 4:03
- * In the role of a police officer, Xzibit portrays his views on his work, which portray the police in a racist and corrupt manner. He is alluding to the Rampart scandal, in which it was revealed that almost the entire CRASH unit (specializing in gang crime) was corrupt.
- * Produced by DJ Quik
- Say It to My Face - 4:09
- * With Kurupt & Don Blaze
- * Produced by Allstar “The Big Beat Maker”
- The Donnell Rawlings Show ( Skit ) - 1:40
- * Parodies a typical talk show scene ; 2 men, here Xzibit and a Raymond (alluding to Usher Raymond ) argue over a woman's child and have a paternity test read out. It turns out that neither of them is the child's father, after which they both rant about the woman.
- Scandalous Bitches - 3:03
- * First, Xzibit generally describes some experiences with groupies before he equates his ex-fiancée, who cheated with Usher, with them. He apologizes to Usher for his attacks at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 in Rome.
- * Produced by Fyre Dept
- Concentrate - 3:49
- * Club song about women who look hard to focus. The song is underlaid by a Buddhist meditation chant .
- * Produced by Rick Rock
- On Bail - 4:37
- * On Bail (German: on deposit); Xzibit, The Game & Daz Dillinger rap about how much their deposit would be; the height described is ultimately intended to indicate their wealth.
- * With The Game, Daz & T-Pain
- * Produced by Felli Fell
- Family Values - 3:53
- * Xzibit describes his requirements for a woman with whom he would start a family. These requirements correspond to the image of a housewife .
- * Produced by Dublin Beatz aka J-Dubz
- * Contains elements of savoir faire from chic
- Black & Brown - 5:47
- * The song is an appeal to contain the growing riots between African Americans and Hispanics in Los Angeles . The text tries to portray the futility of this violence, as they would exterminate each other and meanwhile 80% of all prison inmates in the USA are African American or Hispanic.
- * With jelly roll
- * Produced by The Arkitects
- The Whole World - 4:20
- * Produced by Jelly Roll
- Poppin 'Off - 4:13
- * With DJ Quik & King T
- * Produced by Khalil
- Movin 'in Your Chucks - 4:55
- * With Too Short & Kurupt
- * Produced by Jelly Roll
- * Contains samples from Dollaz, Drank & Dank from Mr. Short Khop
- Thank You - 4:59
- * A thank you song to Xzibits fans.
- * Produced by Warryn "Baby Dubb" Campbell
Additional songs on the bonus CD of the Best Buy exclusive edition
- Concentrate (San Quinn Remix) - 3:50
- * The only change is that the second verse is now rapped by San Quinn with different text.
- * With San Quinn
- * Produced by Rick Rock
- Rollin '(West Side Remix) - 4:19
- * With jelly roll
- A Minute to Pray - 4:18
Publications and chart successes
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Full Circle was released on October 17, 2006 in the US and November 3, 2006 in Germany. It also appeared in countless other countries where KOCH Records was active. The first single was Concentrate .
Versions
Full Circle was released in four different versions: as an uncensored and a censored CD, as a limited edition with bonus CD, exclusively for the US chain Best Buy, and as a record.