Career Timeline

This section contains information in chronological order (earliest to latest)

1996 – 1997

Xzibit achieves individual recognition with the album "At the speed of life," which spawned the successful singles "Paparazzi" and "The Foundation."

1997 – 1998

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.

1999 – 2000

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.
 

2001 – 2002

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.
 

2003 – 2004

'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".

2005 – 2006

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”.

2007 – 2008

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.

2009 – 2010

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.

Xzibit released 2 new music videos in the first half of 2010. Phenom was released first shortly followed by Hurt Locker. These videos were first debuted on YouTube.com and were then featured with the MP3 verson of the tracks on iTunes.

Xzibit is set to release his next album, MMX, towards the end of 2010.