Veteran MC Xzibit recently spoke about the current state of Hip-Hop at a panel discussion on Thursday (September 14) in Santa Monica, CA, and TMZ was on hand to capture the discussion, which also featured Layzie Bone. X shared his thoughts about where the culture and genre currently is, and where he'd like to see it head in the future.
“Hip Hop is huge,” he said. “And it made so many people so much money, they think anybody can do it. Everyone feels that Hip Hop is so accessible that anybody can do it. It’s become a mockery of itself. It’s become too accessible. There was a time that there was somebody that you had to go into their office and get an investment into your career. Now, if you just have a laptop and WiFi, you can be an artist … People do themselves a disservice by trying to participate in that.”
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