Xzibit new album "Full Circle" coming this summer

Xzibit is coming "Full Circle" with his next release this summer.

"I’ve been making records [for so long], so to be able to do what I love and do it well, I gotta take it back to what I love to do," X said recently of his upcoming, aptly titled LP, Full Circle.

"My perspective has definitely changed [over the years]," he added. "The things I used to say when I was 18, 19 or 20 aren’t the things I’m feeling now, you know? I’ve definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared and put out there.

"I think having powerful music that says something is a must for me [now]," explained X, who first tackled political issues on 2004’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. "So that’s what I plan to do with this record: shed some light on the growth that I’ve had so hopefully someone can relate and feel me."

X is being a little shy about naming the producers working on the project, although he did say there’ll be 17 tracks when it drops in August.

He also spoke about the first single "Watch the mixtape circuit," X said. "There’s so many ways for music to get out nowadays that the traditional way of just dropping a single before the record is out is obsolete."