Where did Xzibit go wrong with Man Vs Machine?

[Deltron]

X straight up MAULED JD on that song.. Good god

yeah he ripped grindin

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

X straight up MAULED JD on that song.. Good god

Takes me back to downloading music off Napster. I could never find the version that didn’t have like a glitch in it

 

[Tj Bronson]

Takes me back to downloading music off Napster. I could never find the version that didn’t have like a glitch in it

My wife and I always laugh when the song plays on a shuffle or something because we got that same glitched out version so many times it's just burned into our memory

 

[HiphopRelated]

hated the production, and he was my fav west coast artist

 

[Zero]

Technically, it started going wrong artistically on Restless.

But he had the machine behind him on that one.
So it worked out for him.
He started becoming a generic bytches & money type rapper with no content though. The Source review for Restless pointed that out too.

He went full 'commercial thug' on Man Vs Machine. He used to be an underground type of mad rapper.

And...this was the (post) Take Over/Ether era. Nobody was checking for Xzibit...at all!

This right here.

 

[darryl]

He was the main one holding down the west before game came thru. He had a nice Lil run

 

[Rekkapryde]

choke me spank me pull my hair is a terrible song too

this.

 

[Damnshow]

When you start off the album with that horrible symphony in X beat, you're not expecting a great album.

Besides couple decent beats like the Multiply, the album production was nearly Canibus levels of bad.

Restless was soooo much better, even besides the main singles from that album, the other songs sounded great too. Man vs Machine sounded like bunch of throwaway beats.

Weapons of mass destruction also had a better production. That album was all over video games like Underground 2, Def Jam NY, Juiced, NFL, etc. Man vs Machine was damn near unusable anywhere.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Mac Ten]

The Bonus tracks on bonus disc were the best tracks and should have replaced em on the CD....


The only tracks that I liked on Man vs Machine Disc 1 were:

Right On
Enemies
Release Date
Choke Me, Spank Me

 

[Mac Ten]

My Dad had a burnt copy and said that he only liked 3 songs off that album...

If he had brought the album, he would have been pissed.

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

X straight up MAULED JD on that song.. Good god

This my first time hearing the non glitched version

 

[African Peasant]

It was corny.

 

[Tommy Fits]

The album started off strong with release date and just kind of fell off after that

 

[Sean7]

Never the biggest XZ fan, but this was my high school era, from what I remember, it had that bad West Coast production, XZ never really had an identity as a rapper, it had the worst kind of JellyRoll/Rick Rock/Dr Dre throwaways

A really bad song 'Choke me spank me pull my hair", it reminded me of Meth's 2004 Def Jam album.

I think X came back in 2005 with Mitchy Slick talking real gangster lol

I think he was at his best when he was messing with the Liks.. When he got away from that and tried to get more "gangster" so to speak is where he started to fall IMO, just didn't really fit him to be honest. He started his heavy fall as you said on Man vs. Machine, never really had an identity after that. He started out Back Pack type and underground, then got commercial and got Dre on etc., then fell flat.