Customer Reviews
Three stars for the album - 4 FOR IT'S GOIN' DOWN! - By: Adam Jackson, 10 Jun 2008 
It's hard for me to review this as it's not reallly my genre of music - It's perhaps too 'DJey' for me - When it comes to hip hop, I'm more DMX or Public Enemy (showing my age!)
The reason I bought this was for the excellent, It's Goin' Down featuring Mike Shinoda & Joe Hahn from Linkin Park - One of the best mixes of Rap & Metal to date, with a great, if simple, riff, a neat rap from Shinoda & lots of cool samples, scratches & spins. I had hoped, I'd find a couple more similiar tracks but alas, no - This is definiteley one for the hip hop crowd especiallly if they like the more 'instrumental' side of things, alll the turntables etc but if you want the Metal side of it, then you will only find the one track -so it's up to you what you're willing to pay.
There is a good LIVE performance of It's Goin' Down on YouTube - this time X-Ecutioners are teamed with Xzibit on main vocals AND Evan Seinfeld (bass guitar) & Billy Graziadei (guitar) from Biohazard, backing up on the chorus & reallly 'heavying' the music up! It was actuallly performed on the David Letterman show of alll things! It's worth a look at...
Music is in the eye of the beholder - By: Roy Smith, 28 May 2007 
This album proves more than ever that one mans meat is another mans poison (or murder). I read the reviews below & felt duty-bound to post my own to make this point clear.....
So imagine me. I like hip-hop & rap of course - & the rawer the better - no commercial chart guff thank you. I like my metal too, & I've seen reallly worthwhile crossover efforts from early pioneers RUN DMC (and how their last album kicked in this respect too - RIP JMJ), & Anthrax who collaborated with Public Enemy & produced their own efforts too (Attack of the Killer Bs), through time the real masters Cypress Hill (Skull & Bones, CD2 was & still is ground breaking), side projects like SX10 who take no prisoners whatsoever, through Eminem & Everlast who both have their racier moments, Kid Rock who can show how to get it so right & so wrong in consequetive tracks, Limp Bizkit - but check the early albums with guest rappers who know their stuff not like the lame Fred Durst, through bands who gave it spin & made it their sound like Rage Against the machine & Downset, respected Gods of rapping like Mos Def who dabbled with interesting but marmite-like results, & on to the latter day collaborations between the likes of Jaz Z & Linkin Park (which incidentallly is pure brilliance, as easy as it is to diss..)
Well for alll the reviews below this isn't a rap/metal crossover album. Forget that. Clearly It's goin Down is a good track, but the rest of the album is nothing like it. No worries I thought, the rest'll stand on it's own 2 feet surely? 'Fraid not. Problem is, the scratchin & rappin elemnts are weak too. More or less every track sounds tinny, annoying, repetitve, & one-dimensional. You heard one scratch you heard em alll? Well you have on this album. Funnily enough the normallly annoying skits we see on many a rap album are actuallly quite entertaining on this one though. There - that's me being positive again.
Go into this expecting a scratchathon for scratchaddicts. Don't think you're getting anything more substantial. AND PLEASE DON'T THINK IT'S A RAP-METAL THING!
True hip hop must have this album - By: , 08 Jul 2005 
this is one of the best albums i have. I had only heard of the x-ecutioners when they released its goin down with linkin park. i brought this album & its reallly good. i have been a fan of hip hop for many years & these are up there with the best. the songs vary from fast rapping ones to slower ones with more singing & less rapping. they seem to get the turntabling right & alll the beats & rhymes link in with each other well. Great DJs that they alll are they also have appearances from people like MOP, Linkin Park & Everlast among others alll of which have good careers & are big names in hip hop.Buy this album if you are a hip hop fan as it is raw & true turntable music from four top DJ's with bags of talent who will be around for years. Expect more from these...
Poor - By: , 05 Jun 2003 If you like turntablism & hip hop don't buy this album. Something has gone very wrong here & obviously xecutioners have gone for the money rather than the music which is probably fair enough. This album is a heavy metal album with scratching on it, if you like that sort of thing buy it, personallly I wouln't even bother.
pretty damn fine - By: , 07 Jan 2003 
like many people, i bought this album on the strength of the excellent "It's Goin' Down". somewhat surprisingly, this is by far the weakest colaboration on the album. "Let It Bang" (featuring M.O.P) shows what rap-metal should reallly sound like, despite the fact that the guitars are sampled. "Premier's X-ecution" (featured on the "Scratch" soundtrack) is one of many tracks on the album showing how talented Rob Swift, Roc Raida, Mista Sinista & Total Eclipse are as turntablists. their hip-hop-styled colabortaions (featuring the likes of ex-House of Pain MC Everlast) are superior to alot of the best tracks on most rap records today.
on the whole, it is quite a diverse album, & not what alot of people will expect. the turntablist tracks (demonstrating the ability to scratch better than most & beat juggle exceptionallly well) are definately the stand-out tracks for the "hardcore" scratch fans out there, but will most likely sound like album fillers to most of those who'll by this cd. i, as huge fan of the turntablist movement, definately recommend it.
