Xzibit has been no stranger in voicing his displeasure with the state of current Hip-Hop lately, and he expressed it yet again on a recent episode of the Adam Carolla Show. The former Pimp My Ride host expressed frustration with the music as well as the lack of physical product which added to the listening experience.
“There’s no emotional investment in the music, like when we were putting music out,” he said. “You had the CD cover, the album cover, cassette. You get to open it, you get to see who produced it, you get to read the lyrics. You’re not guessing. A lot of the things that made us have 10, 15, 20, 30-year-long careers doesn’t exist anymore.”
X said further that other genres incorporate elements of Hip-Hop to better effect than Hip-Hop does. "I don’t know if they’re doing it on purpose or not, but Hip-Hop doesn’t have the staying power that it used to have,” he said. “You see country music having elements of Hip-Hop. You see pop music. When’s the last time you saw a rock band that didn’t have a Hip Hop element to it? I’m sick of Hip-Hop, and I love Hip Hop,” he expressed. “I want to see a rock band come out and steamroll.”
