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X (Xzibit song)

2000 single by Xzibit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3501647 ↗
Source-derived summary

"X" is the first single from Xzibit's third studio album, Restless, released through Sony Music Entertainment, Epic Records, SRC Records, Loud Records, and Xzibit's Open Bar Entertainment. Fellow West Coast musician Snoop Dogg can be heard talking in the outro. It was produced by Dr. Dre with co-production from Scott Storch and Melvin "Mel-Man" Bradford. The song samples the line "Not these n**gas again" from Eminem's "Bitch Please II" which is featured on Eminem's album The Marshall Mathers LP.

Music video

The music video directed by Dave Meyers has cameo appearances from Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, RZA and Method Man. In the first verse, Xzibit performs his verse in a limo with women around him. In the second verse, Xzibit is at a party, then in a bathroom when three men come in and try to attack Xzibit, only for Xzibit to teleport to the backstage area of his concert via a device. Most of the video includes Xzibit in a studio with Snoop and Dr. Dre and in the third verse he is in a concert performing while the cameo actors are sitting with the fans.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “X (Xzibit song)” as 2000 single by Xzibit. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 188-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-11-28. The account is most persuasive where Xzibit, song and single can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2000 single by Xzibit. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “X (Xzibit song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.