Insert Hip-Hop Artist Name Here wants to take acting career to next level. Yes I’m not posting the same story over and over. These days seems like artists are shifting focus where the money is…from the music to the movies. Bow Wow went public saying he wants to focus on movies and even Busta Rhymes wants to start a TV career.

Well Xzibit is already on his way from transitioning from artist to actor with a whole range of films under his belt including the recently released American Violet (trailer and pics here) which opened this past weekend. In a recent interview though with Euroweb, X to the Z talks about taking his acting the next level:

‚ÄúI don‚Äôt want to play stereotypical parts. I mean they hand those out every hour on the hour. If I plan to make more important movies as I go along, then the choices I make now are very important…certain roles that come around are just not attractive. It‚Äôs not about the money. It‚Äôs not about me thinking I need to be in a big budget film. I don‚Äôt think I‚Äôm prepared to carry a movie by myself right now, but I want to work to get to that point. But the fact of me knowing that is going to save me a lot of headaches and the audience a lot of bad movies … so you won‚Äôt see me on ‚ÄòSoul Plane 6.‚Äô‚Äù

As somone in both the film and music industry it is nice to see that Xzibit realizes he is not ready to carry a movie by himself. Most of these rappers (ahem Diddy) think they can just come to Hollywood and win an Oscar and be a big-budget action star overnight.

• Xzibit lands villain role in “Bad Lieutenant”
• Xzibit taking acting career to next level
• VIDEO: Trailer to “Bad Lieutenant” starring Xzibit & Nicholas Cage
• VIDEO: Xzibit & Nic Cage movie clip from “Bad Lieutenant”
• New trailer to “The Bad Lieutenant” with Nic Cage & Xzibit