Xzibit

Xzibit (2005)

Xzibit [ ɛɡˈzɪbɪt ] (real name Alvin Nathaniel Joiner; born September 18, 1974 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American rapper , actor and television presenter .

Life

Xzibit was born in one of the poor neighborhoods of Detroit . There his mother died when he was nine years old. On his album Man vs Machine , he dedicated a song to her. His father then remarried but started beating him. As a result, the father's guardianship was withdrawn and Xzibit was sent to a home. He later processed these experiences on the albums At the Speed ​​of Life (in which he attacked his father) and 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz (in which he was reconciled with his father, who can also be heard on the album). At the age of 14 he left home at his own request to move to his sister in Los Angeles . He earned the money for the trip by trading drugs.

Xzibit is the father of three children. His second son, Xavier Kingston Joiner, died on May 26, 2008 at the age of eleven days due to poor lung function .

Career

Xzibit live in Berlin (2007)

Xzibit began his career as a member of the Likwit Crew , alongside the Alkaholiks and King Tee , among others . He had his first officially released appearance on the song Freestyle Ghetto on King Tee's album IV Life . He then went on tour with them in 1995 and the next year his debut album At The Speed ​​of Life was released on Loud Records . The album, especially driven by the single Paparazzi , which was particularly successful in Germany, is considered by many to be an underground classic.

When he released the successor 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz two years later , he was considered one of the most promising talents in West Coast rapeseed. This made Dr. Dre noticed him, who first placed him on a song he produced on Snoop Dogg's album No Limit Top Dogg (Bitch Please) . By the positive response encouraged it first featurte him on his own album in 2001 and took him to the Up in Smoke Tour , alongside artists such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Ice Cube , before he decided to convert, Xzibit's third album, Restless to to produce. The album was a huge success , supported by the single X , and sold nearly two million copies in the US. Dr. Dre also took care of the fourth album Xzibits, Man vs Machine , after this breakthrough . However, the sales dropped so that he was no longer involved in the next project, Weapons of Mass Destruction .

Nevertheless, he started his acting career after this album and also hosted the MTV series Pimp My Ride . Despite its increased popularity, Weapons of Mass Destruction again sold poorly, which he attributed to a lack of support from his label, so that he separated from it and released his last album Full Circle for the first time independently on Koch Records . But even the now independent promotion of the album could not stop the commercial downward spiral and he now only sold about as much as on his first two albums.

Since he had founded his own label called Open Bar Entertainment before Restless was released, he finally wanted to release the album of his group, the Golden State Project , which had existed more or less since 1996 , consisting of himself, Ras Kass and Saafir. It never appeared, however, as Ras Kass's label Priority Records banned it from being released.

He therefore founded a second group, Strong Arm Steady , before Weapons of Mass Destruction , of which he, Mitchy Slick , Phil the Agony and Krondon were members. With her he published countless mixtapes as well as a compilation of the best songs of these. However, he separated from the group in 2006 due to differences in the choice of label.

In 2012, Xzibit released a new single, which he recorded with Travis Barker, under the title Napalm . The seventh solo album of the same name was released on October 5, 2012 and also contains the second single Up Out the Way .

Xzibit (2012)

Others

• Xzibit was once known as "Exhibit A". He later removed the A and changed the spelling to follow the Ebonics' style .
• Xzibit uses several pseudonyms for himself in his songs, including (Mr.) X to the / tha / da Z , Black John McClane , West Coast's William Wallace , X Man or just X [ / ɛks / ].
• Xzibit appears in the video games NFL Street 2 & Def Jam - Fight for NY .
• Xzibit made a guest appearance on Korn's Twisted Transistor video .
• Xzibit has some cameo appearances in the following music videos :
  • What's Your Number from Cypress Hill ,
  • It Ain't Nothin from Cypress Hill ,
  • Purple Pills from D12 ,
  • The Next Episode by Dr. Dre ,
  • In da Club by 50 Cent ,
  • Bad Boy for Life by P. Diddy ,
  • XXX Funk from Funkdoobiest ,
  • Side 2 Side by Three 6 Mafia ,
  • This Way by Dilated Peoples ,
  • Without Me by Eminem ,
  • I Don't Dance by DMX .
• Xzibit can be seen in the episode "Deadly Rhymes" from CSI: Miami , in which he appears at the beginning and is then shot, as well as in two episodes of the Hawaii Five-0 series .
• The musical basis (melody and female vocals) for Xzibit's song Paparazzi is Gabriel Fauré's Pavane op.50 .
• In the OV of the film The Little Red Riding Hood Conspiracy , Xzibit speaks the Bear Inspector Grizzly .
• Xzibit lending in the PC and Xbox game The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay the guard Abbott his voice.
• On April 30, 2007, Xzibit's license was revoked as part of the Gumball 3000 in the Netherlands .
• Xzibit has been part of the Das Hausbau-Kommando team since autumn 2010
• In the song And We Run by the symphonic metal band Within Temptation (on the album Hydra , January 2014), Xzibit can be heard with its own lyrics.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	At the speed of life	DE74 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH35 (10 weeks) CH	-	US74 (4 weeks) US	First published: October 1, 1996
1998	40 Dayz & 40 Nightz	-	-	-	-	US58 (5 weeks) US	First published: August 25, 1998
2000	Restless	DE21 (15 weeks) DE	AT52 (7 weeks) AT	CH40 (10 weeks) CH	UK27 gold (14 weeks)UK	US12 platinum (28 weeks)US	First published: December 12, 2000 Sales: + 1,100,000
2002	Man vs Machine	DE20 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH33 (6 weeks) CH	UK43 (4 weeks) UK	US3 gold (12 weeks)US	First published: October 1, 2002 Sales: + 500,000
2004	Weapons of Mass Destruction	DE27 (11 weeks) DE	AT69 (3 weeks) AT	CH27 (9 weeks) CH	UK85 (4 weeks) UK	US43 gold (8 weeks)US	First published: December 14, 2004 Sales: + 500,000
2006	Full circle	-	-	CH74 (1 week) CH	-	US50 (2 weeks) US	First published: October 17, 2006
2012	napalm	-	-	-	-	US150 (1 week) US	First published: October 8, 2012

Compilations

• 2011: Urban Ammo 2

Mix tapes

• 2000: Getcha Groove On - Dirt Road Mix (with Limp Bizkit and DJ Premier)
• 2010: Digital Dynasty 12 (with Tha Advocate)
• 2013: Serial Killers Vol. 1 (with B-Real and Demrick as Serial Killers)
• 2015: The Murder Show (with B-Real and Demrick as Serial Killers)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	Paparazzi At the Speed ​​of Life	DE11 gold (20 weeks)DE	AT20 (10 weeks) AT	CH6 (12 weeks) CH	-	US83 (6 weeks) US
1998	What U See Is What You Get 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz	-	-	-	-	US50 (14 weeks) US
2000	X restless	DE4 (16 weeks) DE	AT19 (17 weeks) AT	CH5 (18 weeks) CH	UK14 (8 weeks) UK	US76 (10 weeks) US
2001	Front 2 Back Restless	DE95 (1 week) DE	-	CH66 (3 weeks) CH	-	-
2002	Multiply Man vs Machine	DE33 (9 weeks) DE	AT66 (3 weeks) AT	CH33 (10 weeks) CH	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	-	feat. Nate Dogg
2004	Make Y'All Bounce Classic material	DE24 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	Raptile feat. Xzibit
	Hey Now (Mean Muggin ') Weapons of Mass Destruction	DE33 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH42 (11 weeks) CH	UK9 (7 weeks) UK	US93 (4 weeks) US	feat. Keri Hilson
2006	Concentrate full circle	DE68 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-

More singles

• 1996: The Foundation
• 1996: Eyes May Shine
• 1998: Los Angeles Times
• 1998: 3 Card Molly
• 1999: Pussy Pop (feat. Jayo Felony and Method Man )
• 2000: Year 2000
• 2001: Get Your Walk On
• 2002: Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair)
• 2002: Symphony in X Major (feat.Dr. Dre )
• 2004: Muthafucka
• 2006: Family Values
• 2006: Thank You
• 2009: Hurt Locker
• 2010: Phenom (feat. Kurupt and 40 Glocc )
• 2010: Highest Form of Understanding (HFOU) (feat. Trick-Trick )
• 2012: Napalm
• 2012: Up Out the Way (feat. E-40 )

Singles as guest musicians

• 1999: Bitch Please (with Snoop Dogg feat. Nate Dogg )
• 1999: Game Don't Wait (with Warren G feat.Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg)
• : 2000 Focus (with Erick Sermon feat. DJ Quik )
• 2000: Connect (with DJ Hurricane feat.Big Gipp and Pharoahe Monch )
• 2011: Off the Handle (with Adil Omar)
• 2014: And We Run (with Within Temptation )
• 2014: Giraffe Pussy (with Apollo Brown feat. Ras Kass , Royce da 5′9 ″ and Bishop Lamont)

Music videos

• 1996: paparazzi
• 1996: The Foundation
• 1998: What U See Is What U Get
• 1999: Up from da Underground ( feat.KRS-One )
• 1999: Bitch Please (with Snoop Dogg feat. Nate Dogg )
• 1999: The Game Don't Wait (Remix) (with Warren G feat.Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg)
• 2000: Year 2000
• 2000: X
• 2000: Get Your Walk On
• 2001: Front 2 Back
• 2002: Multiply
• 2002: Symphony in X Major
• 2004: Ride & Smoke
• 2004: Hey Now (Mean Muggin)
• 2005: Criminal Set
• 2006: Concentrate
• 2006: Roll on 'Em (with DJ Crazy Toones feat. WC , Young Maylay and MC Ren )
• 2008: Thank you
• 2009: Figure It Out (with Young De feat. Mykestro)
• 2010: Phenom
• 2010: Goin 'Back (with Statik Selektah and Termanology feat. Cassidy )
• 2010: Hurt Locker
• 2011: What It Is
• 2011: Man on the Moon
• 2011: Off the Handle (with Adil Omar)
• 2014: And We Run (with Within Temptation )

Filmography (selection)

• 2002: 8 mile
• 2004: full clip
• 2004: CSI: Miami (TV series, episode 2 × 22 Rap Sheet )
• 2005: xXx 2 - The Next Level (xXx: State of the Union)
• 2005: Derailed (Derailed)
• 2006: Game on probation (Gridiron Gang)
• 2006: The Little Red Riding Hood Conspiracy ( Hoodwinked ! , voice)
• 2008: The X-Files - I Want to Believe (The X-Files: I Want to Believe)
• 2008: American Violet
• 2009: Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
• 2010: Malice n Wonderland
• 2011: Weekends at Bellevue
• 2012: Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
• 2012: Code Name: Geronimo (Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden)
• 2013–2015: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, three episodes)
• Since 2016: Empire

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US1US Albums in the charts DE4thDE AT2AT CH5CH UK3UK US7thUS

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 singles DE1DE AT-AT CH2CH UK1UK US-US Singles in the charts DE7thDE AT3AT CH5CH UK3UK US4thUS

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Canada
  • 2003: for the album Man vs Machine

Platinum record

•  Canada
  • 2003: for the album Restless

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Canada (MC)	gold1	platinum1	150,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	platinum1	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	-	100,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MTV.de: Xzibit mourns his son ( Memento from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Rapper Xzibit loses driver's license during rally ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (NU.nl, June 30, 2007)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Xzibit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Xzibit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Xzibit at laut.de
• Xzibit at Allmusic (English)