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Career Timeline |
This section contains information in
chronological order (earliest to latest)
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1996 - 1997
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Xzibit achieves individual recognition
with the album "At the speed of life," which
spawned the successful singles "Paparazzi"
and "The Foundation." |
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1997 - 1998
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His second individual album "40
Dayz & 40 Nightz" followed and was met with
great reviews just like At The Speed Of Life had been
two years ago. During this time, Xzibit was hard at
work appearing on many albums such as Snoop's Top Dogg,
Dre's 2001 and Kurupt's Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha. |
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1999 - 2000
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In 2000 the stage was set for Xzibit's
3rd solo album, titled "Restless". After being
released in December 2000, the album was met with great
reviews and earned Xzibit his first platinum record.
Restless was selling strongly due to a great selection
of singles including "X", "Front 2 Back",
"Loud & Clear", and "Get Your Walk
On". Restless also marked the beginning of Xzibit's
own label, Open Bar Entertainment. Xzibit also released
his own DVD on open bar, titled "Xzibit Xposed".
Xzibit also appeared in The Alkaholiks DVD as well as
Snoop and Dre's hit comedy, The Wash. |
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2001 - 2002
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Xzibit released his 4th solo album,
"Man Vs Machine", was released early October
2002. Xzibit Xposed was re-released in Australia. (Australia's
code is PAL, where the US is NTSC). Despite a poor effort
to promote the album, on November 12, 2002, Man Vs.
Machine officialy went gold. |
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2003 - 2004
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'The Golden State Project' fell apart
due to problems with Ras Kass' Record Label. Xzibit
formed 'The Steady Gang', with Mitchy Slick, Krondon
& Phil The Agony. Xzibit hosted the smash hit MTV
show 'Pimp My Ride'. 'Weapons
of Mass Destruction', Xzibits 5th solo album, was released
towards the end of the 2004. X to the Z proves he can
still hold his own in the rap game. Xzibit flexes lyrical
muscle and substantial song-writing power throughout
the album, with top notch battle-ready verses such as"LAX"
and "Klack". |
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2005 - 2006
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2005 added a number of acting experiances
to Xzibit's already massive list performances. X has
some major roles in both "Derailed" where Xzibit plays Dexter, and in
the box office smash "xXx: State of the Union"
(xXx 2) where Xzibit plays "Zeke" - the arms dealer.
Successful MTV show Pimp My Ride continued to grow. Pimp My Ride the video game was released in 2006.
Xzibit appeared in a few more TV shows and in videos games, such as “E! Behind the Scenes: Derailed”. Xzibit provides voice for video game, “The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay” as well as the voice of Chief Grizzly in the teen animated movie “Hoodwinked”.
In late 2006
Xzibit co-stars with The Rock as Malcom Moore in the “Gridiron Gang” and around the same time Xzibit releases his sixth solo studio album, “Full Circle”.
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| 2007 - 2008
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Xzibit embarked on the Full Circle world tour in 2007. The tour took him throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
During Xzibit's tour of Australia he was set to appear a on popular TV show, "Rove Live". Xzibit left the Rove Live studios in Australia before an appearance. Media outlets reported that it was due to Xzibit not being given stand alone billing on the program despite not being booked in advance. According to Xzibit he walked off the set after taking offense to comments made by a Rove employee, who after informing Xzibit that his performance time would not be to his liking allegedly said: "you know we came a long way just having you on the program." Xzibit took this to be a racist remark, although the staff allege that they were referring to him being a late booking.
Xzibit took part in the Gumball 3000 2007 rally, where he drove a black Lamborghini Gallardo. During the first day of the rally, Dutch police seized his driver's license for doing 160 km/h where only 100 km/h was allowed. After the penalty, his co-driver, producer Fredwreck Nassar took over the wheel and they were allowed to continue. In an interview with Dutch radio personality Reinout 'Q-Bah' van Gendt, Xzibit says that he mistook the kilometers for miles.
Xzibit continued to host MTV's Pimp My Ride throughout 2007, until the final episode was filmed toward the end of 2007.
2008 saw Xzibit play an FBI agent in the big budget movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Xzibit also played the character of Darrell Hughes in the film American Violet.
Due to popular demand, Xzibit returned to the shores of Australia for another tour.
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| 2009 - 2010
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Xzibit had a full workload in 2009, where he made a number of TV appearances on shows such as "The Parker Report" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".
Xzibit played a notorious drug dealer in the movie Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. The movie stars Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes and Fairuza Balk. Nicolas Cage praised Xzibit on his acting ability in the movie.
2010 should see Xzibit appear in two movies, "Fencewalkers" and "Pinkville".
Rumours of Xzibit's next album being released by mid 2010 began ciculating the internet. XzibitCentral.com can confirm that Xzibit plans to release his next study album in 2010, with a number of music videos to be release and to be followed by a world tour.
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