I gotta be honest I haven't really checked for Xzibit the last couple of albums, but heard a lot of good things about this album and goddamn I forgot how much I love his voice, think he's got one of the best voices in hip hop. I LOVE 'at the speed of life' to this day, for me it's an almost perfect album, loved the second too, but for me it's his third best after the first and then 'restless', after that he lost me a bit

I really like this record, a lot of really introspective lyrics.

I gotta ask, on the track 1983 what does this part mean?

'i remember meeting dre, being nervous when I would kick my verses,
I was virtually worthless, my whole life was a circus, sleeping with serpents, and I thought it was worth it, I got a call from paul told me shit wasn't working, exchanged words, I told him tell me that shit in person, he probably told Em, and by the way he said, unapologetic, twisted it made it about him, I seen slim and he said he didn't recognize me, was it that or did he let another man define me, I don't know but now I need to get this all behind me, follow my own calling when I used to follow niggaz blindly'.

did he break with Em and Dre on bad terms? After Restless he obviously didn't do another album with Dre, and I assume by Paul he means Em's manager? Anyone know more about this, it intrigued me.

edit: just realized Dre actually did a track on this album so forget about that, but what about Em?