XZIBIT CONFIRMS ‘KING MAKER’ ALBUM IS COMING, DISCUSSES NEW NAPALM & BUDDIES BRAND PARTNERSHIP, WORKING WITH DR. DRE, RICK ROCK, EMINEM + MORE

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Xzibit Confirms ‘King Maker’ Album Is Coming, Discusses New Napalm & Buddies Brand Partnership, Working With Dr. Dre, Rick Rock, Eminem + More On Conversations With Chad Podcast » West Coast Styles

Xzibit, who has been instrumental to the west coast hip-hop scene since his 1996 debut At The Speed of Life, and boasts a catalog of seven studio albums

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Xzibit, who has been instrumental to the west coast hip-hop scene since his 1996 debut At The Speed of Life, and boasts a catalog of seven studio albums including 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz, Restless, and Man Vs. Machine sat down with Chad Kiser of West Coast Styles on the Conversations With Chad podcast to discuss his cannabis brand Napalm partnering with leading cannabis brand Buddies Brand, Inc., working with Thayod Ausar on the At The Speed of Life lead single “Paparrazi”, confirms he’s putting together his 8th solo album King Maker, and details putting together his sophomore album 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz with Sir Jinx, Mel-Man, Bud’da, and others.

The west coast emcee also tells Chad Kiser what it was like working with Dr. Dre & Eminem on songs like “What’s The Difference”, Don’t Approach Me”, and “My Name”, working with Rick Rock on the tracks “Symphony In X Major” & “Muthafukka” and incorporating the opera elements on those songs, reveals his top 5 songs he would tell people to listen to know who Xzibit is, and so much more.

Check out the Conversations With Chad interview with Xzibit below:

 

[Mystic]

Is Krondon still writing for him?

 

[KingsOfKings]

Is Krondon still writing for him?

Who knows.

 

[ORDER_66]

hope he gets a win...

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Is Krondon still writing for him?

I just looked this up cuz its the first I ever heard about it.

What in the entire fukk??!

How the fukk you go from "It's a shame, n*ggas in the rap game, only for the money and the fame" to having somebody who you smoked on the mic in freestyles penning your damn lyrics??

I know I'm dumb late on this, but goddamn X just took a serious hit in my eyes on his artistry.

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

This beat....

 

[dubsmith_nz]

I just looked this up cuz its the first I ever heard about it.

What in the entire fukk??!

How the fukk you go from "It's a shame, n*ggas in the rap game, only for the money and the fame" to having somebody who you smoked on the mic in freestyles penning your damn lyrics??

I know I'm dumb late on this, but goddamn X just took a serious hit in my eyes on his artistry.

Yo I never heard that rumor before either. Especially given X was always dope with the pen.

 

[TripleAgent]

Is Krondon still writing for him?

X doesn't write his bars? You can't be for real. If true, he slides down the ranks. Especially the first three albums.

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

 

[DaHNIC82]

Xzibit had a ghost writer?

 

[DaveyDave]

I just looked this up cuz its the first I ever heard about it.

What in the entire fukk??!

How the fukk you go from "It's a shame, n*ggas in the rap game, only for the money and the fame" to having somebody who you smoked on the mic in freestyles penning your damn lyrics??

I know I'm dumb late on this, but goddamn X just took a serious hit in my eyes on his artistry.

I can’t remember where I heard about all this, some Krondon interview. I think the timeline. Of when he was writing for X is around the times when X was having some big life problems, his kid dying and stuff like that, working a lot in Hollywood. It seemed like X was too busy or had some bad shyt going on where he wasn’t really in the state of minds to write rhymes. I don’t think Kron wrote everything but maybe a lot of it.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

When I looked it up, it was from some interview in 2012 where Krondon was asked about ghostwriting and he said he was writing for Xzibit, but quickly followed with "not anymore". Like it was only a brief period like you said. I didn't even know about his child dying. I can understand him not being in the frame of mind to write, and maybe he needed the bread from dropping an album. But damn.

Like I said, artistically not a good look. Especially since X was always doper than Krondon (whom I like, but he ain't no master wordsmith or anything like that).

 

[KingsOfKings]

Xzibit had a ghost writer?

I know krondon (Tobias from Black Lightning ) mentioned it in passing. I think Phil Da Agony also don't quote me on the latter

 

[DaveyDave]

When I looked it up, it was from some interview in 2012 where Krondon was asked about ghostwriting and he said he was writing for Xzibit, but quickly followed with "not anymore". Like it was only a brief period like you said. I didn't even know about his child dying. I can understand him not being in the frame of mind to write, and maybe he needed the bread from dropping an album. But damn.

Like I said, artistically not a good look. Especially since X was always doper than Krondon (whom I like, but he ain't no master wordsmith or anything like that).

I think he probably had contractual obligation to droop an album and wasn’t in the frame of mind. And it’s not like anything he dropped in that time frame are regarded as his classics or anything.

 

[NormanConnors]

Is Krondon still writing for him?

Also is this the mystic that was down with Hiero?