Like his boy Snoop, Xzibit's given up drinking and smoking weed: both to make his live performance stronger and to serve as a better role model for his son. “I know what it’s like to be high off the fuckin’ planet,” he says, of his decision. “I know what it’s like to be drunker than drunk. But I didn’t know what it felt like to be coherent for weeks at a time. Most of all, I didn’t know what it felt like to succeed on my own terms. I own a record label now, I’m a full-time father, I just recorded the best record of my career, I’m around people that are striving to change the face of music. To show what hip-hop music is supposed to be. That gets me higher than any kind of blunt.”

(First Snoop, then H.E.III, now Xzibit...them cats can do whatever the hell they want...I ain't quitting no time soon)