DJ QUIK - THE BOOK OF DAVID - 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMwDy_2Yas

when is this thing out already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhb9VdqoQPQ

AAAAAAAAAAA

let's go

*gets it in*

:D

this beat is

wait
let it happen

http://limelinx.com/files/a7ab6633c3b561af69ec9174947c1f65

that link won't work for me so i had to find it here:

http://www.thesermonsdomain.com/2010/09/29/dj-quik-ft-kk-g-shit-game-diss/

saw this:

For four minutes (and an unnecessary four minutes of talking), Quik and some unknown named KK drop a hard hitting diss to Game. The snare is killing the beat! There is no motive behind Quik attacking him but it’s got to be big since a vet is doing so. I take it back on the talking. Once Quik gets in his mode, his talking is entertaining. The Book Of David drops sometime soon.

smh...fucking newjacks calling dudes from 2nd II None no names. weak shit.

that's cool that they are back on good terms

from noz' tumblr

This was posted 15 hours ago by wakaflockaseagulls. It has 7 notes, 2 Comments, and 435 plays.

says he's too good for ilx but bites whiney's display names

ha, our first waka flocka pun display name no less

that was whiney's triumphant return from temp ban DN iirc

^lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNyueAzSPo

release date for the album is 4/20/11

i will welcome him
remember when they were all like "oh yeah, we're gonna drop a new album every year from here on in, ain't no thing"

first listen that new quik didn't sound like anything but second go round it clicked

Yeah I'm not feeling "Luv of My Life" but I'm not mad at it.

its burn is how you say SLOW

Ok second listen I like it more, but "Gift Reynolds" is a terrible name and he's faceless as a rapper (although if his name is a Firefly reference I will automatically like him).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkTPDDzRig

I'm feeling this.

It's like Quik is doing better Dre than Dre has for the last decade.

that was posted upthread

what, g shit? yeah, the links kinda dead tho

Anyone have a link to an mp3 of G Shit? I want a copy for posterity.

http://www.thesermonsdomain.com/2010/09/29/dj-quik-ft-kk-g-shit-game-diss/

saw this:

For four minutes (and an unnecessary four minutes of talking), Quik and some unknown named KK drop a hard hitting diss to Game. The snare is killing the beat! There is no motive behind Quik attacking him but it’s got to be big since a vet is doing so. I take it back on the talking. Once Quik gets in his mode, his talking is entertaining. The Book Of David drops sometime soon.

smh...fucking newjacks calling dudes from 2nd II None no names. weak shit.

― who's got the (platform) 9 3/4ths? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 1, 2010

i don't know if i'm extremely cranky tonight or if ilx is just in a spell of being a bit dim

prolly the former. the mediafire link is live; the streaming there is dead.

yes everyone wanted a stream forks.

Thanks.

http://backbonebmx.com.au/shop/images/P/stream_fork-01.jpg

likin this quik!

http://vibe.com/photo-galleries/full-clip-dj-quik-breaks-down-his-catalogue-feat-jay-z-2pac-snoop-dogg-dr-dre-rakim-

David Blake is brazenly blunt when detailing the many triumphs, painful experiences and losses in his life. But when you are DJ Quik, one of West Coast hip-hop’s most influential figures, your life is open for the entire world to see and at times scrutinize. There is nothing to hide. The groundbreaking rapper and producer, who followed N.W.A.’s lead, repping his notorious Compton, California ‘hood with his seminal 1991 debut Quik is The Name, will boldly tell you that he’s done just as much to propel Cali-rap on the map as his friend and peer Dr. Dre. And who could argue with a criminally underrated talent who battled through depression, alcoholism, a jail stint, and the deaths of close friends during an unpredictable two decade run?

DJ Quik is now set for his return with his eighth release The Book of David, due out April19th. From his own platinum solo pursuits to his standout studio work with the late Eazy E, 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, T.I., and Jay-Z, VIBE presents DJ Quik’s unfiltered Full Clip.

Quik Is The Name (1991)
“N.W.A. pretty much showed us all that we could have pride in our city of Compton because Compton was so tumultuous back then. It sucked to see all that oppression from the police and from the gang bangers. You were damned if you do, damned if you don’t. So when Eazy E and them came out representing Compton it made me feel proud to be from there. I was already a DJ at that time in the late ‘80s, but N.W.A. sparked me to really become serious with my lyrics. We were the real gangbangers. N.W.A. weren’t even bangers…they just played it so high up. But although we really lived that gang culture that’s not what it was all about with us. We were very family oriented. We showed the softer side of Compton.
Quik is the Name was originally supposed to be a mixtape that I was going to sell in the ‘hood. I recorded it on a Tascam four-track. I did all the over-dubs, all the blending, and mixed it down on one of those Maxwell metal tapes they used to sell. But along comes Dave from Profile Records looking for me like, ‘Hey dude, I heard your cassette, man. Come sign with us.’ [laughs] There was a bidding war between Fred Munao at Select Records and Cory Robbins and Profile. Cory ultimately ended up beating Fred out and I signed with Profile.
Profile gave me a $30,000 budget to mix the record over. So you do the math: a $1000 a-day studio…if we get Quik is the Name done in less than a month, that’s more money in my pocket. So we got it done in 17 days. We dumped everything out of the SP-1200, brought the turntables into the studio, scratched all the hooks, did all the overdubs and brought in a bass guitar player to fatten up the sound because we would lose a lot of the bass from sampling. We recorded some of the album at Westlake Studio on Santa Monica, which is where Michael Jackson did Thriller. It was a trip being in there mixing ‘Tonite’ on those big boards knowing that Michael was coming in and out of there.
My mom played Isaac Hayes’ ‘Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic’ all the time. That was my motivation for sampling it for ‘Born and Raised in Compton.’ It was a dog beat, very funky. But on the other hand ‘Tonite’ was pretty much R&B and some jazz. I sampled that from Kleer’s ‘Tonite,’ which came out I believe in 1981 on Atlantic Records. That record was so advanced for that time. That musical scheme was dumb, and to have it over a TR-808 beat that was bananas for me. I sampled it primarily for that groove and it was a good record to tell a story to, especially about growing up in the ‘hood.
Rappers weren’t going platinum a lot except for Run-D.M.C., Dr. Dre, Public Enemy and so on and so forth. So I still don’t understand how Quik Is The Name went platinum. I don’t question it, but I think I had a stroke of blessing at the right time. I had this edgy, dark live show that was kind of ‘hood-tinged, but it was still entertaining. I looked at myself as the average homeboy in the ‘hood; the one that made it. Ultimately I willed myself into the business.”

Way 2 Fonky (1992)
“I didn’t think that West Coast gangbanging would really permeate the nation. Then again, I was naïve. We would hear about all this violence happening in certain cities and we were apprehensive to go on tour in certain spots. I had trepidation about performing in Denver because they said all the Crips moved from L.A. to out there. I was like, ‘For real? I have to deal with this shit just to make a dollar [laughs]? The gang culture probably hurt the growth of a lot of neighborhoods. This is what I was trying to say on ‘Jus Lyke Compton.’
I grew up in gangs, so there was no way around it for me. After getting bullied a few times by Crips from the opposing neighborhoods, I decided that that was all I could stand. So I cliqued up with the Pirus and said ‘fuck it.’ It gave me a relief because people knew I had backup. They stopped breaking into my house and shooting up my mama’s house…shit like that. But ‘Jus Lyke Compton’ was basically me saying that I had no idea the same things were going on everywhere else from St. Louis to Texas. It was basically me saying, ‘Is there a way to quell all this gang violence?’ I didn’t know that I might be perpetuating all the gang shit. I just wanted the world to have fun.
With Way 2 Fonky I was just trying to put out an album every year like artists were doing. I was just trying to stay current so I could stay on tour. Plus, I wanted my boy Robert Bacon, who co-produced the record, to get his shine as a musician. He showed me a lot. He showed me the real way to do reggae. He taught me musical counterpoints because he writes music. He’s like my music teacher, so I just wanted him to ball out. We got the album done and it went gold in a week. I’m very proud of it.”

"Bitch Betta Have My Money" → AMG (1991)
“I had no idea this song was going to become so controversial. We were just sampling beats that we liked. AMG always had the pimping thing while I had the ladies man mentality. I don’t even know how I ended up with AMG. I was chilling with this guy named Greedy Greg, who I wanted to be my manager because he had my beat interests at heart. And Greg’s roommate was AMG. So I started taking my drum sounds down to Greedy Greg’s house and AMG started going through them, and to me that was stealing. I was sharing drum sounds back then with Battlecat and a lot of unknown DJ’s. And I was making my way through the L.A. circuit with Uncle Jam’s Army. But AMG started making beats with my drum sounds and that’s how ‘Bitch Betta Have My Money’ came about. Primarily, AMG made that beat, but he had to give me some of the production credit. But I like the beat to this day. That’s the only reason I let him use my kick and snare. It was funky.
During this time gangsta rap was taking a lot of hits from the politicians. We were on the frontlines [in terms of free speech]. I’m just glad all that drama kind of died down. Ironically, I didn’t know I would have so many daughters—I have two. This has obviously affected me because I don’t think I would want to play a song like ‘Bitch Betta Have My Money’ for my daughters [laughs]. I think that was a curse on me for making some of those records. God did that to me. He gave me girls [laughs].”

"Trust No Bitch" → Penthouse Players Clique feat. Eazy E, DJ Quik, and AMG
“I fell in love with the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. I was flipping the records that I was hearing, so ‘Trust No Bitch’ was really one of the Beastie’s songs. They did the drum track and sampled it from one of those break beat compilations, and recreated it as a hip-hop record. They were just clowning on it, but I figured we could really funk out to it. And that’s pretty much what I did. And Eazy E coming to the studio back then…when that man walked in that shit was so powerful. He had like a bright light aura surrounding him. To be in the studio producing him and telling him what to do I was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m in here telling Eazy E to punch in some lyrics.’
Eazy would pull up in any sports car you could think of…a 300 Z…just living. Those were some of the best times ever. Working with Eazy honestly meant that I had arrived, and that I needed to start thinking more highly of myself because I was downplaying my power at that time. I was aligned with some very powerful people and I knew it had to be because of my talent.”

Safe + Sound (1995)
“I inadvertently shouted out MC Eiht from Compton's Most Wanted out on a mixtape. I didn’t do it in a disrespectful way because they were already successful. We were proud of anybody that came out of Compton. I respected Eiht. But when Eiht started dissing me, it was personal. That hurt my feelings…I’m not even going to lie. We just got dissed by Tim Dog (who made the incendiary diss record ‘Fuck Compton’), who didn’t even know us, and now I’m getting dissed by MC Eiht, a dude that grew up less than a mile from me. I couldn’t believe it. We kept going at it for two years. It was uncomfortable. He put out another record dissing me again and that was enough. I was hell bent.
I did [the single] ‘Dollaz & Sense’ for Safe + Sound. I was having physical fights while I was recording that album. That’s how over done I was with anger. That was a very dark period for me. And when I finished with that record all that anger was out of me. But honestly, ‘Dollaz & Sense’ wasn’t just about Eiht. I just channeled all my anger to his name. But it was also about the people around me. I was trying to take care of everybody. People were taking shit for granted.
Around the time, 2nd II None had started bringing Suge Knight around to the studio. Suge knew what I was doing. But I didn’t know he was going against Eazy because it wasn’t my business. Suge promised me the world, so I started working with him. I saw what he was building at Death Row, and I thought, ‘Oh…Dr. Dre is going to be there? Maybe I can establish myself over there.’ I was looking at it as a great business venture, and it was to an extent. I had Suge talking to Profile Records on my behalf because I didn’t understand all of the contract stuff. I was like, ‘If you can have them give me my royalty check, we are all good.’ So Suge got me some bread and before you know it we were cool.
The crazy thing is, outside of Safe + Sound, some of the business that was going on was crazy. Jimmy Iovine and Suge offered me and 2nd II None a production deal at Interscope. The number was so high that it freaked out Dion (a member of 2nd II None). He thought it was the devil…he was like, ‘Oh, they are trying to buy our souls!’ And I was like, ‘Man, are you stupid [laughs]?’ But Dion was like, ‘I have to go to God and ask him.’ I just told him, ‘You better go to the bank and cash this check. What are you doing this for? You are an idiot [laughs].’ But Dion turned the deal down. So we both lost the deal and I went back to Profile.
It ended up with me being a work-for-hire at Death Row, mixing all of those Tupac records and making sure all of the stuff got into the vault. I started cataloging those Death Row records and Suge gave me a handsome fee for that. But when I started seeing that Death Row was becoming run by gangbangers, that’s when I left. It didn’t rest well on my spirit. If I would have kept fucking around with Death Row I knew I would end up in a box.”

"Heartz of Men" → 2Pac (1996)
“This guy named Carlos has credit for making ‘Heartz of Men,’ and that’s the dumbest thing ever. They gave the credit away on the only 2Pac song I produced. But working with Pac was crazy. He’d sit down, grab a pen, a legal pad and a blunt, and write out all of his thoughts. He would record the shit, do the backgrounds and ask if you needed anything else. Then he would walk out that studio and go in another studio with Dr. Dre and do the same thing and then go in the studio with Johnny J and do the same thing. I was like, ‘This dude is a robot. We really need to take something from his work ethic because this shit is crazy.’

The Pac in his last days was very shielded. I went to his mansion in Topanga Hills in ’95 right before he passed. It was this big beautiful white house, but it seemed so empty. Looking back, I think he was a little lonely…there was no furniture in that house. He was purging his energy. It almost felt like he knew that his death was coming. He was egging it on. The Pac I like to remember is the Pac from Digital Underground who I was on tour with. I wish that guy was back. He was a bright eye, fast-talking Oakland genius. He was a ball of energy that you could never forget. When Pac died I cried like a baby.”

"Let's Get Down" → Tony! Toni! Tone! feat. DJ Quik (1996)
“I heard Tony! Toni! Tone!’s Sons of Soul album and I was just smitten. I was like, ‘These guys are dumb!’ I just wanted to be able to work with them at some point. My dream was to work with Raphael Saadiq because he’s bananas. When I heard ‘Lay Your Head On My Pillow’ it inspired me to buy a Wurlitzer 200 electric piano. I played a lot of it on Safe + Sound. Raphael Saadiq sparked me to go bigger. So we finally met and started ‘Let’s Get Down’ at Westlake studios. I had a break beat, hooked it up, did the cool drums around it and let Ray (Raphael Saadiq) hear it. And Ray was like, ‘I don’t want know keyboards on it…I don’t want it to be a G-Funk record. This has to be more of a popular record.’
So, I threw the Moog keyboard out the studio. I put it all on a 2-inch reel tape and gave it to Raphael and he put some guitar and vocals on it and sent it back to me. That’s when I brought more percussion to the record. I was playing triangles, shakers and bells. It took me two days to mix ‘Let’s Get Down.’ And when I was done, I was so proud of it. I felt like I did Tony! Toni! Tone! a real solid. I put them in the club…it was a club ‘hood record.”

"Ride On" → Snoop Doggy Dogg & Kurupt (Caught Up Soundtrack, 1996)
“I heard the original mix of ‘Ride On’ because Snoop and Kurupt did it with someone else. They called me in and said, ‘Quik, do you think could listen to this record and see if you could do anything with this?’ It wasn’t like I didn’t like the original track. It just didn’t seem like a track that fit Snoop and Kurupt. It sounded like a something that a fan of Hank Shocklee (of the legendary production crew the Bomb Squad) and them tried to produce but didn’t have the talent. So I called my boy Bacon over to the house. He started playing these crazy, eerie guitar parts. I programmed the MPC, we took a break and started drinking and smoking that good weed. Then we went back into the studio and re-built the song all the way up. Now listening back to that track, it’s really advanced. It’s a strange song, especially with the girl singing. She sings minor and then her vocals are augmented. It’s dark and beautiful at the same time. And Snoop and Kurupt rapped their asses off.”

Rhythm-al-ism → DJ Quik (1998)
“I really wasn’t in a good place mentally when I was working on this album. My best friend was murdered at my studio at my house. I don’t want to talk too much about it, but I was naive to some drugs that were starting to show prominence in the ‘hood. I didn’t know anything about meth, and somebody in my camp was doing it, and I was blindsided by that. I didn’t know meth made you do that kind of crazy shit. Here I am…I’m aloof and rich. I’m producing everybody and then this happened. I had to bury my friend and I kept that grief around for the longest. Then my nephew went to prison. And I needed both of those guys.

I’m a dude that doesn’t really know how to grieve. I thought you should bury yourself in your work. So I just buried myself in the making of Rhythm-al-ism without addressing the seriousness of what had happened. I didn’t know I was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It started to show in my behavior. I was like, ‘Try to be me for a while. If you don’t like how I’m acting, fuck all of y’all.’ The saving grace for me was El DeBarge coming into my life. (El was featured on the Rhythm-al-ism tracks ‘Medley For A V’ and ‘Get 2Getha Again.’) He had dealt with his own tragedy with his brother Bobby dying. For me, El was the link to his brother’s music—Switch. For him to have my favorite falsetto voice ever on my record was one thing. But then to see he was a brother, a Detroit cool cat, we kind of naturally became good friends.
Back then, wasn’t nobody tripping on El getting high. Because he could get high and still nail a show. I never tried to intervene in his business. He was a grown man, and so was I. I was a drunk at that point anyway. I’m drinking and smoking weed everyday trying to run from my problems not realizing that the shit that was happening to me was very severe and life changing. But El was there for me. He sung at my boy’s funeral. He helped me with the production. He’s hella spiritual. I am grateful to El DeBarge to this day.
And working with Nathaniel (Nate Dogg) was always great. He was the kind of person that was the voice of reason. If some shit was going crazy, he was always there. I’ll tell you a story that I’ve never told anyone. When we performed at the Source Awards in 1995 in New York we did the Death Row Medley. This is when Suge got up onstage and took that shot at Diddy. When the audience turned on Death Row and started giving us these looks, me and Nate Dogg stood up back to back. Now I’m scared because the situation was crazy. I didn’t know that Nate Dogg had been a marine [laughs]. So Nate tells me, ‘Well, if you don’t let nobody hit me in the back of my head, then I won’t let nobody hit you in the back of your head.’ And I was like, ‘For sure.’ It’s funny thinking about that now. But niggas was ready to fight [laughs].
I love Rhythm-al-ism. I worked through adversity to get it done. It ended up having the beginning signs of music that I could call my own, which is a good mix of hip-hop, R&B or jazz. It’s a little gutter thing that happens when you add the drum machine because when the tracks are too pretty they are boring. Rhythm-al-ism was an amalgamation of all of my favorite musical styles and influences. If you listen to some of those records like ‘I Useta Know Her,’ those songs are really innocent, just talking about humping on a bad girl for the first time. I wouldn’t change a thing on Rhythm-al-ism. As a matter of fact, it’s my favorite record out of my catalogue.”

No Limit Top Dogg ("Doin' Too Much," Buss'n Rocks," and "Don't Tell") - Snoop Dogg (1999)
“I went to Snoop’s house to do those records. I helped him get his studio tight. We started recording and he dug what I did and we’ve been friends to this day. Snoop is the coolest dude. He’s the guy that you wish was your uncle. He should be the uncle to all kids. You think he’s a pimp because of how cold he could be on the hoes [laughs]. But he’s really just like the Peanuts’ Snoopy character. He’s not excitable. He’s never really emotional. He’s very calm and cool to work with. And that’s great. Because I’ve been accused of being too damn emotional [laughs].”

"Fine" → Whitney Houston (2000)
“Raphael Saadiq got me involved with the Whitney Houston record. He let me come into the studio and remix it with him. Ray was pulling strings. He’s a bad boy. I met Whitney when she was married to Bobby Brown. They came to the studio and did a walk through. I even shook her hand like, ‘I got you Ms. Houston!’ I ended up really liking the ‘Fine’ record. Plus, Clive Davis was involved, and I’ll do anything for dude. Clive Davis is the greatest businessman I ever met. He’s a father figure for all musicians. I was humbled to be involved in that Whitney project. I can’t even really talk about it. I felt like Willy Wonka [laughs]. It was a dream come true.”

Balance & Options → DJ Quik (2000)
“I wasn’t giving it my all on this album. I was ready to be done with the business as far as being an artist. I didn’t think I was keeping up where the trends were going. I wasn’t rapping about the same things that everybody else was. I was pretty much just showing my prowess in the studio. Some people say Balance & Options is one of their favorite records. Me, I was just trying to build the career of Mausberg and pass him the gangsta rap torch because he had it. He had that in spades. I wanted to get him out there. But then they fucking murdered him. I had to finish his record and my record while he was dead. So I don’t think I was into the music. My mind was somewhere else. I was insane.
I crashed my motorcycle just stressing about Berg. I ended up in the hospital. Again, I was already suffering from PTSD from two years ago, and now Mausberg is dead. So what saved me? Gallons of vodka. I drank until I was numb. I tried to escape reality. I think I might have been slightly suicidal back then.”

"Jankie" - 8Ball & MJG (2000)
“I knew Tony Draper who ran Suave House Records [the label home of 8Ball & MJG]. I met Tony a couple of times while I was at Death Row. He was a music mogul and he actually came to my little apartment on the West side. I was like, ‘Wow.’ I just let him know how much I dug 8Ball & MJG. They were like the perfect duo in southern rap. Right after the Geto Boys, it was them. Those niggas was hard. And they were funky. Draper let me get in the studio with them and we did ‘Jankie.’ We also did another song called ‘Buck Bounce,’ which I thought was a throwaway. I was just doing beats at that point, but they liked it. We recorded it at the Enterprise studio when it was poppin’ out in North Hollywood. We had a good time out there.”

"Addictive" → Truth Hurts feat. Rakim (2002)
“I was hanging out with MC Lyte when I realized that I needed to take my music abroad. I needed to get out of this regional shit. And ‘Addictive’ was kind of a lucky thing. I’m brushing my teeth at home and I hear this music coming from this free channel called Z TV. There was this crazy music coming from the background and I didn’t even realize I was dancing to it [laughs]. I dropped the toothbrush, went to the TV and popped in a videotape to record the song. I got the audio from the tape, put it in my drum machine and went to the recording studio. I created the ‘Addictive’ track and I let MC Lyte rap on it. I thought it was going to be a Lyte record, but she didn’t kill it like I wanted her to.
So here comes Truth Hurts, and I had already been working with her, Nate Dogg, Dr. Dre and Suga Free. So I told Truth Hurts, ‘Hey, I since it’s your birthday, I think I have a birthday gift for you.’ She came over and got the CD and drove right off. A day later, I hear from Dre who tells me to come to the studio. I went up there to drop the song down to analog tape and had my boy play bass on it. I took it back to Dr. Dre and he called Focus to write some lyrics to it and Truth Hurts went in and did her vocal parts. When Dre had me come in and listen to the finished track, I was blown away. Next thing I know it was on the BEAT radio station in L.A. And when I heard it on the BEAT I lost my motherfucking mind [laughs]!
And Rakim being on that song was just crazy. If I put Eric B. & Rakim’s ‘Paid In Full’ cassette in a radio right now, I would still be the coolest guy on the block. To hear that Dre had that kind of access to Rakim and to put him on a song I produced?!!! He sounded like the Rakim we all knew and loved. It was like we won some type of hip-hop championship or something [laughs]. We should have gotten a hip-hop award for just that pairing of talent: Dr. Dre, Rakim, DJ Quik, Truth Hurts and Focus. It was amazing.”

Under Tha Influence (2002)
“At this point, L.A. Reid was coming into the Arista Record situation, and it was time for me to go. Amicably we supposedly split. But then I saw a press release that said Arista dropped DJ Quik. So I guess that’s what amicably means [laughs]. I still had a lot of money on that contract, but I was ready to become a label owner. I scouted around for some independent labels to try to align myself with, and the only real game in town was Bungalo Records, which was started by Paul Ring. So I’m thinking being independent I was going to sell about 200,000 records and get that independent money so I could build a studio compound. I was looking at my peers like DeVante Swing who had acres and acres of fucking land and studio space with all his toys in there. I was trying to do that, but I didn’t know Paul Ring and them had a shady way of doing business.
I ended up getting fucked on that Bungalo deal. It blew up in my face. That was pretty much a big mistake in my career. Even my lawyer advised me not to do it. I put my foot in the quicksand. But ultimately I got it together and went to Warner Bros. to do some A&R work. They had a great staff and great people. I was living in New York at this point. I started making music with Wyclef Jean and them. I was just trying to align myself with people that I am like. I was ready to take it to the next level at Warner Bros., but in comes Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles, so I was out. That whole thing just proved to me that I needed to have my own label.”

"Justify My Thug" → Jay-Z (2003)
“Justify My Thug” started off as a funk sample. ‘Justify My Thug’ was very dark. It was almost like one of the theme songs that could have made it onto the Scarface soundtrack. It sounds like some Giorgio Moroder shit. That music was weird, so I was taking up that pattern. I wanted to do something quirky and strange. And I was hoping that Jay-Z dug it. The song still had a rhythm to it and Jay still laid into it rhyme wise. But it was definitely one of my more bizarre tracks. But it really worked because Jay-Z could rap over farts [laughs]. Now would a song like ‘Justify My Thug’ work today? No. It would be too risky. I don’t think I would take that chance.”

Trauma → DJ Quik (2005)
“On Trauma I started aligning myself with the southern artists like T.I. and Ludacris. The south was running the business. It was all about them. So to stay alive and be relevant you had to align yourself with the power players. We did those songs off of respect. Trauma was an independent album. I thought that I vented nicely on the intro, and those records still stand up for me. The production, however, wasn’t really musical. I was going for more barebones, more drum oriented songs. But there are some standouts. I still love ‘Fandango’ (featuring B-Real). That track is bananas. And there’s ‘Black Mercedes’ with Nate Dogg actually just singing lead, killing it, and not just doing a hook. Nate did that shit in one take! He fucked me up, man. I miss Nate Dogg.”

BlaQKout → DJ Quik & Kurupt (2009)
“BlaQKout only happened because Snoop Dogg and I was done with Ego Trippin’. I asked Snoop, ‘Kurupt is on tour with you all year around…is it cool if I borrow him from you for a couple of weeks to do a record?’ Snoop gave me his blessings and me and Kurupt did a record as men. Not as the two Death Row inmates [laughs].
At this time, I was hanging out with Jay-Z’s engineer Guru. And we would talk about how we should be a production team because we knew how to see music all the way in its totality. I see the end game of most of my tracks. For example, the ‘9x's Outta 10’ record on BlaQKout was purposely some shit that no one had ever done. I was using plug-ins from other hosts and mixing them with other hosts in my Pro-Tools. So I would have native instruments playing Sony Pro-6 samples and dicing them up. It became this crazy amalgamation of new technology.
BlaQKout was just fun. It was not pretentious. It was me and Kurupt being mature. We were both gangsta rappers. But why just do a gangsta rap record? Especially when people are shunning it. Gangsta rap is not even selling. You even got the big dogs saying that gangsta rap is dead. These are the people that made a living off of it. So where do you go? You try something different. You even go pop or alternative. Kurupt was open to it. To hear some of those weird quirky tracks it brought him to a place where he was really comfortable. It was crazy to see Kurupt that comfortable. I don’t know if I was ready for critics when they started to call BlaQKout a classic just from being the black sheep of the hip-hop world. But I knew in my heart that it was a unique record. I knew it was a record that I could put on years later and still like it.”

The Book of David → DJ Quik (2011)
“When I got into trouble and went to jail (On June 21, 2006, DJ Quik was convicted of the physical assault of his sister and sentenced to five months in prison. The incident happened in 2003 after police reported that Quik’s sister was extorting him.) I started to write my book. I wanted to call it The Book of David. I thought I was at the end of my life at that point. I was going to end up dead or in jail and I ended up in jail, so maybe God was trying to say something to me. Maybe I needed to start listening and stop being drunk and stop being hard headed. That’s when I decided to pen my book. But when I started remembering shit that happened to me when I was five-years-old, I dropped the pencil because it was too painful to look back at.
I wanted to tell the back-story of every record I ever made and what motivated me from heartbreak to being homeless. I went through all that shit. But I realized it would be easier for me to just put it to song. I don’t even have to write songs anymore. I just start rapping. What I was doing was having a catharsis. I was letting all the bullshit go. There’s no weird music on The Book of David. This shit is all barebones and factual. It’s not going to go over somebody’s head. I have Ice Cube on it…Dweli, Bun B…I got all these top names on it.
We had the album ready to go last year, but it got held up for the samples. Now usually, I would be cavalier about samples in the past and let them come after me. But I was proactive this time. I sampled Angela Bofill and the Grease Lightening soundtrack. I knew it was going to be expensive but I wanted to get them cleared. Now the clearance is coming through and the record is mixed. Now usually I would just hand the album in and say, ‘I’m done with it.’ But this time, I listened to it with objective ears. I listened to it as both DJ Quik and David Blake. I hope that’s not bi-polar [laughs].
The song ‘Hydromatic’ is pretty dope. It’s a club record and the kids really bug out to it. My headspace is different. I’m in a much more calm place. We are really showing off with this record. My other favorite records are ‘Real Women’ with Jon B, ‘Ghetto Rendezvous’ and ‘Luv of My Life.’ I have a record on the new album with the late Gary Shider from Parliament. Him and Bernie Worrell, the P-Funk All-stars, came to one of my recording sessions and turned my life upside down with the funk.
Lo and behold I found an artist in Detroit while I was DJing out there. Somebody slipped me his work and I played it right there on the spot. He grabbed the mic and started rapping. His name is Gift Reynolds. He looks like Drake, but sounds like me. I want people to know that my life and my music were plagued with mistakes. But sometimes mistakes are beautiful. Sometimes they are life changing. I’m not perfect. I’ve fucked up a lot. I got scars that will take an autopsy to remove. But I grew. I’m trying to be the man that I am and just grow. I want to be remembered as one of the greats; to be up there where the Quincy Joneses are. I’m always working towards that.”

yeah lets make sure magazines dont make any money

jackin 4 clickthrus

any magazine whose plan for making money involves an oboxiously designed web presence that pisses off visitors in order to juice hit counts deserves to go out of business imo

lol deej you gotta be fucking kidding me

really really

HOW DARE YOU ROB MARK ECKO OF HIS CASH? YOU ARE ALL PURE SCOUNDRELS.

i dont think its partic annoying? complex's used to be much worse. but you can navigate to any part of it

& reading big blocks of text is more annoying

thats vibe magazine idiot

oh well either way

if you're mad at "big blocks of text" it takes like 5 seconds to c&p it into a word doc and at paragraph breaks. no quick fix like that for having to click to a new page every 100 words.

ADD paragraph breaks

how dare we deprive intermedia partners

complex's was terrible, but its much better now. i dont mind hitting next & i think there are reasons for certain layout decisions i.e. so u dont know what the next entry is going to be about, ppl choose to present it a certain way, and bringing exclusive content like that deserves hits

imo

oh no, clicking!!

deej do you read books?

how dare we deprive intermedia partners

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:19 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are u mad about the nytimes paywall too

jordan do you steal books?

"i was going to read that book but the big blocks of text just put me off of it. if it was broken down in 3,500 pages with one paragraph on each page then i think i would've read it, but otherwise i just couldn't."

one-page versions of complex/vibe online listicles are as inevitable and necessary as no-DJ versions of mixtapes

it is in fact broken into pages -- that is a terrible analogy

hey i read that quik article on the website when i saw it on tumblr like 4 days ago chill

but no i don't mind robbing websites of 40 precious pageviews, if you must know

also i pirate music

yeah i know, & everything should be free

complex's was terrible, but its much better now. i dont mind hitting next & i think there are reasons for certain layout decisions i.e. so u dont know what the next entry is going to be about, ppl choose to present it a certain way, and bringing exclusive content like that deserves hits

imo

― D-40, Sunday, April 10, 2011 5:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i think the way most sites do comparable features (say, a top 100 list broke up into 10 pages, each with a substantial amount of text you can scroll down) is a much better and more moderate alternative. acting like it's about 'suspense' is some bullshit.

al ship otm -- complex's 50 click thru galleries are a joke & thankfully there's a shortcut to get around that now

hey im not defending the format entirely, but otoh ive personally moved away from C+Ping entire publication's articles on ILX

publication's entire articles, i mean

i dont think, 'boo i have to click through so fuck em!!' is a partic righteous attitude

deej are you the magazine website version of a music stan that buys 10 copies of their favorite artist's new album? just sitting there clicking thru the quick piece 100 times so intermedia partners can get their rightful cash

i know goon squad cru is often comparing each other to whiney but this partic analogy is v whineyesque in its terribleness

i've clicked thru dozens of complex galleries but i didn't think one second before i started using the script to get around it

and i paste espn insider articles on i love hoops

i'm sure you're crying a tear for disney inc right now

the analogy should be if you only are willing to sell your album for $100 (or whatever lol amount marissa marchant was charging) then you're pretty much giving fans permission to bootleg

look ive had my share of free music downloads & im sure i've c+p'd articles in the past but there's no reason to act like its a righteous crusade to be removing other ppl's copywrited material & recopying it from behind paywalls or however else a publication decides to present their material. imo vibe & complex's click-thru format isn't nearly as annoying as it once was, & although al is right that it prob wont last long i like the idea of writers getting paid for the material they are producing, so i have trouble getting all captain-save-a-pirate about C+Ping entire articles to ilx

SO AWESOME that this is the direction the new DJ Quik album thread has gone

like if you want people to consume your work in a way that financially benefits you, then there's kind of a social contract that demands you not be too obnoxious about making them jump through extra hoops to get it

al otm

the way vibe did it is fine imo -- 15 clicks or so but each has significant content, i really had no problem w/ it -- complex otoh...

if i thought the writer was getting paid extra for those clicks or even cared how many people clicked through, i might've gotten through noz's whole top 100 lil wayne songs thing

yeah that's the other thing -- your crusade on the behalf of writers makes no sense

yeah sd & i think that click thru articles arent really that annoying to prevent the site providing the content from getting any hits at all

at some level i dont even begrudge rappers for releasing mixtapes w/ dj drops .... should boosie ever leave prison & music becomes more copyright controlled again, i think it makes sense that he can sell nodj versions of his classics when goon cru heads are 50 years old or w/e

if i thought the writer was getting paid extra for those clicks or even cared how many people clicked through, i might've gotten through noz's whole top 100 lil wayne songs thing

― borkslovethewu (some dude), Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:34 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lets be real none of us cared about this list anyway

yeah it's kind of a shame we're using a somewhat moderate example like the Vibe one to talk about this, but i kind of feel like more than 10 pages for anything is bordering on excessive if it's not like a novella-length piece

yeah it's kind of a shame we're using a somewhat moderate example like the Vibe one to talk about this, but i kind of feel like more than 10 pages for anything is bordering on excessive if it's not like a novella-length piece

― borkslovethewu (some dude), Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:35 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha its a shame that if the example was worse, you'd be more right...? i mean i think we agree on the framing i was arguing that in this case it was unneccessary

like yeah, if complex makes me shoot my first born to get thru its top 1000 kool keith songs ill probably use the script too

hows that for an analogy

good one dude

i'll gladly sit thru 15 second ads on vevo when i watch music videos cuz the quality is good & i like the idea behind vevo -- if they made me wait 2 mins on the other hand i'd prob say "fuck it" a lot more often

there's a balance

so anyway dj quik

one of the things that came thru on that piece was how humble dude really is.

Woah, i certainly didn't expect this reaction to a well-intentioned C&P.

deej u fuckin nut

the fact that ppl make money off me clicking thru multiple pages of their website is the original sin imo

we've gone over this upthread flopson

s'all good just weighing in so members of flopson fan club know which side of this crucial debate i'm on

calling me a 'fuckin nut' seems extreme

yo

i could not have meant it in a less extreme way

s'all good just weighing in so members of flopson fan club know which side of this crucial debate i'm on

― flopson, Sunday, April 10, 2011 5:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

as fan club president i thank you

like if you want people to consume your work in a way that financially benefits you, then there's kind of a social contract that demands you not be too obnoxious about making them jump through extra hoops to get it

― borkslovethewu (some dude), Sunday, April 10, 2011 5:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm late to this, but otm

i agree too -- i just dont think the 'hoops' are partic bad in this instance

anything i can't "print as a single page" and read on Instapaper can 100% get fucked imo

rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

http://www.sesshudesign.com/wp-content/uploads/dripping-faucet.jpg

indeed

my itunes just happened to start playing "nobody" when i opened the files & damn the verse that quik added to that is O____O

this was reviewed by whiney in spin already somehow.

this sounds amazing

"ghetto rendezvous" is hilarious

track 1 -- fucking dope

track 2 -- fucking dope

track w/ kurupt is the bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEsqKd0K7jg

the only one that reminds me of his old style really is 'so compton'

yeah this bangs

queuing up now

"i wrote your eulogy in toilet paper right out in the rain"
gottam

Excellent excellent

i am ready for this

"killer dope" living up to its name - those horns, damn

^^yeah this is the joint

pharrell asked me why i gang bang
that ain't ya fuckin business, stay out my lane, mane

this makes me so happy, i'm having trouble finding words. i was worried about the length, 16 songs seemed like a lot, but other than the one at the end with dwele there arent really any duds

the new quik's groove at the end is great too!

no "g-shit"? on one listen this is great though, just what the new season was demanding

yeah was bummed about no "g-shit" too but KK is on a bumch of these and brings it

i ain't down to earth, i'm in a stratus and i'm lovin it

if you've never had a bidet in your bathroom you ain't on my level

I just put this on and good fucking lord this beat

"You're gonna like this" <-- otm

This finally knocked tuneyards off the hifi

oh shit! bizzy bone

i put my hair in curls and put yours in the garbage bin

"killer dope" living up to its name - those horns, damn

― k3vin k., Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:54 PM Bookmark

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damn, this bass on POPPIN

yeah "Poppin" is omg-lvl

I get the club packed tight like canned ham

Oh shit this "Flow For Sale" beat is transporting me to the middle of summer

we got plans tonight, we goin to cheesecake factory

yeah great album, as usual he drops some mislead singles

"luv of my life" sounds great in the context of the album imo

it works as a palate cleanser of sorts where it's slotted whereas a single it's just kinda *shrugs*

yeah exactly -- by itself you're like 'eh its cool' but it works a lot better as one side of a multi-dimensional thing

personally i think the back half of this album is where it's at

yah on my quik spin through it def built for me as it went along

i def agree w/ the hottness of the back half

hidden instrumental track even!

"so compton" sounds so muthfuckin summer-y 2 me

"killer dope" living up to its name - those horns, damn

― k3vin k., Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:54 PM Bookmark

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― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:41 PM (3 hours ago)

the last verse on this is insane

this will get sooo much play when i'm in LA next week!! <3

some niggas eating simply because i chose to be an artist
way back when i was homeless, way back when i was carless
way back when my sisters used to kick me out they apartments
they back with they hands out
but they made me so heartless
i don't even put cans out
i ain't tryin to donate
i ain't giving you bitches loans, this ain't no fuckin bank
i ain't no house nigga, like _____
if this is UAC then what makes it so awful?
i'm back with the strap in my lap
i'm back in the hood with a gat
i'm back with the drink in my trunk
don't ? so i drink til i'm drunk
i'm back in the kitchen, slow-roastin a lesson(?)
and i play my own piano, don't call yall for no sessions
i'm a threat and a blessing, known to keep cowards stressin
while i'm relaxin at the shooting range releasing aggression

what rhymes with bank?

nah it more likely rhymes with 'awful'

"do today" is #1 summery joint on this i think

gotta go w/ the kurupt song for that imo

yeah

THA HAAA

This album is AWESOME.

duh

dude, the album hasn't even RELEASED; you're not allowed to be jaded about it already

i mean 'duh' bcuz, its a dj quik record, of course its awesome

i guess i can't argue with that

nah it more likely rhymes with 'awful'
― k3vin k., Monday, April 18, 2011 4:45 AM

Shots fired at MC Falafel

does forksclovetofu rhyme with awful?

we sometimes hang out on the weekends and kick a verse

dude, the album hasn't even RELEASED; you're not allowed to be jaded about it already

― My bad Van Buren! (forksclovetofu), Monday, April 18, 2011 5:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

haven't even heard it yet & i'm already jaded abt it

http://cdn.topspin.net/secure/media/serve_by_sku/1924911/stream/f7de943d.png?e=1303262743&authkey=1303262743_490ff264791013cd70ac7f031ddc4274

this is being released on 2x LP vinyl B-)

THE FINAL CHAPTER $3,000
Attend a studio session with DJ Quik (Spend two hours with DJ Quik in the recording studio for the ultimate fan experience!)
The Book of David Autographed 3' x 3' Canvas Print
The Book of David Autographed CD
The Book of David Autographed 2LP Vinyl
T.I.T.S. Brand x DJ Quik T-Shirt
Quik’s Groove / The Book of David Tour – Concert Ticket x 2

love the creativity required to make money in this era lmao

T.I.T.S. groove

It always makes me a little sad when i see things like that

But y'know, if he can get someone to pay it, fair play.

this dude deserves millions of dollars imo. if he makes what those dudes from the rebecca black video did for only 2 hrs chilling in the studio more power to him

shit makes me wish i was rich tho ;_;

Yeah what i meant is, he should be rich from making music. This whole "pay to hang out with me" thing seems to be getting pretty common though.

just ordered the vinyl, no shipping charge for some reason

Can't believe you didn't opt for THE FINAL CHAPTER.

well if id known shipping would be free...

"Do Today" is another A+ summer jam

so you like sushi?
sashimi?

do*

THA HAAA

― Aerosol, Monday, April 18, 2011 12:06 PM Bookmark

otm

why you kiss me when i'm talking?

i'm compelled to find every word that rhymes with orange

just ordered the vinyl, no shipping charge for some reason

― D-40, Monday, April 18, 2011 9:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

when i ordered the studio 'yearbook 1' from their label they sent me 'yearbook 2' for free

w/o no notification

anyway, hopefully he heads out east on tour at some point

no

this was reviewed by whiney in spin already somehow.

― D-40, Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i didn't say anything because its always super-duper corny when the journos on this board brag about hearing stuff early.

also it read like it was one of those things where you go into a room and they play it for you & then you leave, no offense

essentially

but sorry my 75-word review wasn't full of deep insight

:-/

What did you give it, Whiney?

he gave it an uncountable series of red dots next to a smaller number of gray ones

LOL

hahaha

hahahaha deej

i have to read spin to get that joke right?

got this album yesterday -- oh man, so good.  I love how his dis of his sister on "Ghetto Rendezvous" (presumably the one he got arrested for assaulting) goes from hilarious to extremely harsh in the matter of a few couplets

yeah that is some brutal shit

http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/dj-quik-music-021242999419447

as i work on a 54 page festival release for tomorrow, this is pretty much all that's keeping me together right now btw

i love the lil temper tantrum of lyrics that start the album too...

the world calls me Q
but my letter don't work unless it's followed by a you

Nobody has a similar sound (guitar, kick, slap) to that Nike Hyperize commercial he did... which was awesome btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9rUn2YchOY

damn that video makes me want to recant my insinuation that "luv of my life" doesn't work as a single! second verse is so dope

Luv Of My Life has really grown on me quite a bit too.

i really like the twinkly keys!

That's what separates Quik from the rest, those little added textures and flourishes that give the track depth and re-playability. Although this lp isn't (QUITE) as sonically loaded as some of his others, there's still plenty to appreciate and discover.

Has Jon B released a good lp since the 90s? I haven't followed his career path at all, but his work on here has me wondering.

Quik has awesome taste in kind-of washed up rnb singers imo

Most definitely, gets 'em on the cheap I bet too.

Just confirmed; Tevin Campbell is lined up for the next lp.

ha

first stop on the book of david tour is streaming live on his facebook page or something I think

http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/streaming/001243000164112

hasn't started yet tho

He's still not on?

what the hell is up with this dj? playing miley goddamn cyrus

ok why is quik just out onstage dancing?

dude is still fucking around

ok, here we go

"yall want a gangsta rap music show?"

lol @ quik suddenly literally tossing the mic to jon b who appears out of nowhere

looks like he's doing the whole album in order? this show has been a mess tho

dude is goin off on "ghetto rendezvous"

"this is my band. they are called the sunset strip's finest stripper manipulator band."

ok, shit seems to be coming together now and he's rapping "killer dope" to kk

ha, now he's rapping the last verse to the huge-ass security guy

suga free! he's kind of inaudible tho

ha, quik is mockingly singing "i need a doctor". and now "why you bullshittin"! haha for a second it looked like suga was about to stagedive, which would have been to the worst idea ever.

suga free looks really happy to be here, whereas quik has just been acting all weird and standoffish. and bizzy bone is on hand for "babylon", but not really rapping his verse or doing anything? sounds amaaaaazing when quik comes in tho

quik and kk have a good rapport. this drake-looking gift reynolds dude came out on stage and straight up forgot his shit.

this song of his own is aight tho

who the hell is this rittz the rapper-lookin boy cripwalking all over the stage?

ok now they're doing "hydromatic" again successfully. jon b doesn't sound so good tonight tho.

all thru this show i've been lolling at quik's dancing btw.

oh lol, i think the rittz-looking dude is bizzy.

he's got jon b singing "let's get down". this is dope

"i'm captain jack from uhhhhhh....pirates of the carribean. play some pirate music!" *down down down* lolwtf

oh shit quik and suga are singing the oran juice jones joint!

ok no the rittz-looking guy isn't bizzy, it's some guy (fittingly) named red. quik is singing something to the ladies in falsetto. some old school jam i don't know. surprisingly good too!

the whole vibe has gotten looser and easier as the show has gone on.

apparently this is a debarge joint "all this love"

ok he started singing marvin. and then he called out people walking out. "you know the sheriff's outside. hey sheriff, arrest these punk motherfuckers that's leaving my show!" and "pitch in on a party" now.

suga free's just hanging out onstage and making hilarious adlibs

they're singing "light my fire" just for the apparent hell of it

i'm really disappointed no one is watching this with me cause it's gotten super-entertaining even if they are pretty much fucking around at this point.

apparently all the other rappers disappeared half an hour ago and quik and suga (who is now talking about playing with his balls and watching tv) are drunk as hell.

and performing "do i love her" XD

"can i eat it"!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgomgomg

haha he's trying to have this red guy perform "sweet black pussy" but he doesn't really know it

ok quik already had an a+ hypeman right now and this red dude needs to stfu

i'm guessing "the end" means the end

o_O "I AM A GENIUS! I am just like Quincy Jones. I am just like Michael Jackson.................And I don't know these niggas standing up behind my drummer trying to get famous. This is not not American Idol. Knock it off!"

"long live simon cowell"

quik is like....swag surfing now? i'm not sure there's another way to describe what he's doing.

performing "tonite" in the middle of crowd now

to his bodyguard: "yo can i get on your expensive-ass pectorals to help me get back onstage?"

"can u work wit dat"!

i have no idea who is rapping amgs verse but it's hilarious cause their voice is way way higher than his

I think maybe it was this baby: The Fixxers - "Can U Werk Wit Dat" POLL

i'm gonna stop lol liveblogging this now cause i'm about to send this into the fold just by myself and he's just half-assedly rapping along to "a milli" and "xxplosive"

thanks.

http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/dj-quik-top-5-favorite-rappers-of-all-time-021243000122037

^his top 5 rapper/producers

i greatly enjoyed your liveblog btw

DOM PER-IG-NON

yah that liveblog was fun

nobody's really singled out "Hydromatic" as a favorite yet, have they? that's my shit.

i played it into the ground before the album dropped, still amazing.
i honestly can't pick out my favorite tracks. the whole album is just about equally strong.

heh oh yeah that's the youtube at the top of the thread isn't it? duh

Flow For Sale for me, atm anyway.

I agree that it's consistent, think at the moment my two favs are "Killer Dope" and "Ghetto Rendezvous".

KD because of the nice blend of an EWF-ish instrumentation w/ some really catchy mad quotable lyrics...and he dynamically switches the flow in each verse.

GR has my favorite beat, and the vitriol is just so focused and controlled I wish it went on longer.

across the map is kinda killing it just now

and boogie till ya conk out

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.1691/title.dj-quik-against-all-odds

^^^great interview

I’ll share this with you: I think I might be a little too advanced for Hip Hop. I think Hip Hop is such a small, minute genre when it comes to music. And it’s the only genre of music where there’s murder, mayhem, infighting, jealousy and hatred, and all that good stuff. That doesn’t happen in Country music, nor does it happen in R&B as well. (And), that was the normal thing (at Death Row). You’d have to really be – Like Suge (would) say, “You had to make hits or get hit.” Dig that.

Pardon me for being grumpy. I’m just really disappointed that some people are just so uncouth. You would think that after all of these years, and all of the examples that have been set, that people (wouldn’t) still push your buttons to the point to where you would wanna drag ‘em out in the hallway and stomp their fuckin’ teeth down their throat with your security guard.

Pardon me for being grumpy. I’m just really disappointed that some people are just so uncouth.

:D :D :D dj quik speaks my mind. that's a great interview. loved the interviewer demanding flute. although:

And it’s the only genre of music where there’s murder, mayhem, infighting, jealousy and hatred, and all that good stuff. That doesn’t happen in Country music, nor does it happen in R&B as well.

he...is being sarcastic, right?

yeah, he's idealizing those fields a bit. though he certainly has the rnb experience to make that call...
would love to hear a quik country album just to see what happens tho

it's just funny cux, likem the whole deal with country is that it's about "murder, mayhem, infighting, jealousy and hatred".

maybe less of the first two in r&b, though there are obv exceptions, but again jealousy and hatred and fighting are kind of foundations of the genre.

i hear you, but he's talking about in the booth

did this get posted?

http://rapradar.com/2011/03/29/new-mixtape-dj-quik-the-audio-biography-of-david/

its awesome-- quik just talking about his life + career over old tracks

how many rappers have made a diss track at their sister

also went hard at his nephew

YOU STANKY LIL RODENT

this is really some cold blooded shit -- i mean, implying that his niece was happy to die!! wtf

middle in the air for the disses
and tiffany jewelery for the mrs.
orange bottle champagne
teal, green, blue
clidquot, dom perignon & weed too

yea the line about her niece having a smile on her mouthpiece cuz it's "better without you" is the point where I almost drove off the road. rapper disses are one thing, cuz there's an aire of fantasy to them, but that kind of a dis can't be taken back.

but then again, that's the sis he also got arrested for assaulting, I presume....because she was extorting him

http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2007/04/the-fixxers-cant-get-enough/

I was fighting with my sisters. Some of the things they put me through, they probably didn’t really intend it, [but] they were trying to extort me. I always gave them everything and I told them I appreciated them for helping me buy equipment when I was younger. After we got older, I told them, “I really don’t owe you anything. You spent five or six thousand dollars on me when I was coming up. After I became successful, your money didn’t end. I was giving y’all money that I hadn’t even paid taxes on yet.”

[Then] I found out my sisters were trying kidnap my kids for money. So I was like, “Are you guys on crack now? Is that what this is? Are y’all trying to keep it from me? Do you think y’all [are] slick? You’re trying to play me. I’m not ignorant. I’m a genius.” So I could see what it was. It’s just that I’m left-handed and I’m a giver. I’m a philanthropist and I give from the heart. So I love you guys, but I’m not gonna let you hurt my kids. That’s retarded.

I had a strap on me for some dudes. I can talk about it now [because] it’s my situation. My sisters had incorporated some guys involved in the streets into the plot. I caught an assault case and I didn’t pistol whip my sister. She’s little, you don’t have to pistol whip her. But I had my pistol there to shoot them niggas in the face if I would have saw them. I would have blown their ass away. So I snapped. I was out of my mind. I went through therapy and anger management for it and did my jail time. To me, it was more like rehab [rather] than a prison sentence. It was like, go in here and find yourself. Don’t be crazy. Don’t be a victim of the system and don’t let them own your mind.

I love the bit in "Time Stands Still" about lunching in Cheesecake Factory.

You’re trying to play me. I’m not ignorant. I’m a genius.

very bold. also the rev liveblog was tremendous.

only thing I wish was on this album was a faux-reggae-rap song like "I Wanna Rip Your Girl" like on his early albums

Few other details from the show before I forget them:

When Suga Free first came out, he was carrying a giant plastic bag of weed smoke that he was sharing with people in the audience.

Quik's aunt was in the front row (apparently there is somebody in his fam that he do get along with). She joined him for a bit on the Debarge joint.

Quik: Oakland, when y'all gonna get drunk?
Audience: Tonight!
Quik: Ain't none of y'all from Oakland!

At the very end, with the venue trying to get people out of there. Quik starts doing "We Still Party" with the house lights up and everything til they cut the sound.

hahahaha awesome

but sorry my 75-word review wasn't full of deep insight

― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:04 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

finally read this and wtf @ the 3 artists you reference in the review being Dam-Funk, Madvillain and the Beastie Boys

THA HAAAA

I think I said this before but I want a Dam-Funk & Kurupt album.

"lol SPIN magazine" xp

not that's totally a "lol Whiney," blaming the venue for that is bull

you're probably right -- also i think tom b is filing a copyright suit for whiney's use of "swooshwave"

wow so what are the other 70 words

An ad for the Hipster Puppies book

steady zing fire

idk whether i imagined this but i'm sure snoop and dâm-funk have been doing stuff together

re: going in on his family - i think w/family the assumption is that you don't cross the line, but when you do snap and finally cross it you can go even harder than you would on anyone else

They performed live together (Snoop and DF). Think that's the height of it

isnt dam in the sensual seduction video? or he lent his keytar for it, i forget

he's still not exactly the #1 go-to reference for funk-influenced west coast rap production

#2 after madlib

haha yeah i mean obvi -- i agree w/ some dude

probably the bounciest record of the year. anyone want to recommend particular bits of the rest of jon b's output?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeiLZuPI9-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed07nmnpfSE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qurhsou1_nk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDM-XA0-8g4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Damn, that last song is way better than I remember. I was kinda up my own ass at the time it came out.

Anyone think Gift sounds like AZ? I thought it was him on first listen to this album. Not in his league obv

Yah, definite. I wish the Gift verses were replaced with AMG verses.

"Damn, that last song is way better than I remember. I was kinda up my own ass at the time it came out."

Same here, killer tune indeed.

rev you are always a gent. the last two you posted in particular are great. rhodes on don't talk is lovely. his hair in the pretty girl vid is so intense it was distracting, but I appreciate not everyone sees haircuts as a major element of a video.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230267_205994576100081_116887161677490_616048_6521756_n.jpg

does Pitchfork only use the word 'gifted' when referring to rappers?

great review imo

lol

that bus stop ad should've just been quik's face next to the text YOU STANKY LITTLE RODENT

That review made my day, Quik deserves it. Only gripe is the Radiohead reference.

Now like 20,000 more people will mediafire his record.

haha yeah i also am not a fan of 'trunk-rattle' as a phrase & the radiohead ref felt a little too 'no seriously guys, rap music' i guess, but those are extremely nitpicky concerns considering how well it contextualizes the record & describes it w/ great accuracy. great review

Agree, very nitpicky.

"The Book of David emanates this decidedly zen confidence and ease at every level."

This is very otm and exactly how I feel about everything he's done.

One of my favorite albums of the year.

"Ghetto Rendezvous" left me kinda drawing breaths.

feels great that one of my pet 'underrated artists' is now getting widespread critical acclaim after so long tbh

having burned this completely out, I'm back on rhythmalism and unda tha influence lately

with doses of quik is the name and blaqkout in between

and tbh that's the entirety of my quik collection; what are the other key albums i'm missing?

all the others: way 2 fonky, trauma, safe + sound, balance & options

+ suga free's debut, 2nd ii none's stuff, penthouse players clique, etc. this is covered on the dj quik thread, tho

I'm having a dirty war as we speak with two music crit friends who think this is unspectacular and that Quik is anonymous like Daz.

neither of them are anonymous, tell your music crit friends to stick with arcade fire

that review does a v v good job of describing quik's rap style, actually, and how it's distinct

love daz's rapping tbh

Don't love him but if he's considered boring then he's boring in all the exciting ways.

"what are the other key albums i'm missing?"

Haha, deej summed it up (get everything). I'd personally queue these three up next:

Safe & Sound
Balance & Options
Suga Free - Street Gospel

Safe & Sound is undeniable, has some of his most memorable songs.

You should probably get down with the bass-line on r&b cut 'The Divorce Song'
http://youtu.be/5DYZdgL8hFQ

getting safe/sound + balance/options now.

re: Daz

Just re-upped the album 'Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back' a couple months back. Sounds way better than I remembered it sounding back then. Daz is great.

Classic nasty track with Too $hort 'It Might Sound Crazy'
http://youtu.be/mIn2jBDObEg

Balance + Options is the best Quik album you don't have xps

Alfred, tell your friends if they've never had a bidet in their bathroom, they ain't on your level.

hung out with dj quik in my dream last night

this album is cool btw

damn, right off the bat balance and options is dope

Starting with Rhythmalism, hes been on a roll with album openers:

Rhythmalism
Change Da Game
Tha Proem
Black Mercedes
BlaQKout
Fire And Brimstone

B&O is my 2nd favorite, I just wouldn't expect most people to hold it above Safe & Sound.

this is great; feels like i'm set for the next week here.

Tbh, I've never really bumped any of the first three albums that much. They all have dope songs on them, but they all feel to me like he was still kind of getting his bearings and working out what he does well before his great leap forward on Rhythmalism.

you underrate safe & sound by lumping it w/ the other 2 imo

I'd agree, at least with the first 2 albums, but Safe & Sound is like the bridge between early career (ganxta) Quik and late career (pimp&b) Quik.

Not to discredit the first 2 tho, they're right up there in the west-coast classic g-funk pantheon of rap with dre, snoop, eazy e, etc.

completely possible xp

xp means cross post? Still getting used to ilx slang.

xp means "this is meant to respond to the post prior to this"
so xxxxp means "this is meant to respond to a post four or five posts earlier"

thanks

and yes, it's short for "crosspost"

Way 2 Fonky is really great

"sweet black pussy" is maybe my favorite quik song

"pitch in on a party" is mine

Wit no cussin' n shit *bell ringggggggggggggg*

somebody pulled the extension cord out ....

yeah "flow for sale" is growing to be my favorite on this

I kind of wish Quik would release an entire album in the vein of "Quik's Groove"'s

― deej, Monday, May 14, 2007 2:01 PM (3 years ago)

yeah "flow for sale" is growing to be my favorite on this

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:37 PM Bookmark

fa sho

did you hit the tar-zhay?

YOUR HOUSE IS FULL OF MOLD, BODY FULL OF YEAST

i haven't heard it since my one listen with a publicist in the room, and now I'm wondering if my 7/10 was blazingly offtm or everyone else is just being latepassapedia: records that were light years better the ones indie dudes eventually endorsed as classics

or perhaps people just have different opinions about things some times, but that's boring to admit.

this could possibly be better than blaqkout, if that's what you're referring to

I felt like my getting onboard at blaqkout was late enough.

your 7/10 is way too low fyi

& saying indie dudes 'got on board' w/ dj quik here is stretching it a bit imho. at least, at this point

yeah "flow for sale" is growing to be my favorite on this

Nah -- "So Compton."

play piano live on stage when i rhyme
and you niggas can't even bounce and rap on time

& saying indie dudes 'got on board' w/ dj quik here is stretching it a bit imho. at least, at this point

― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:08 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I honestly don't know if you mean "they're not really on board" or "they got on board with blaqout" or "they've always been down," but even though this album is dope as fuck, it's def < blakqout, let alone <<<<<< quik is the name and way 2 fonky

you think i give a sssssshit, man yr rong

Sweet! You guys let me know if you're going to do this so I can unsubscribe from this thread and concentrate on the album exclusively.

also, i dont see indie cats putting the quik-produced indisputible classics like "Jus Lyk Compton" or AMG's "bitch betta have my money" on some retroactive revisionism ish like they do with UGK and KMD

yet

i meant, i dont think 'indie kids are on board,' although maybe this review will change things, but yeah

i think this album is better than blaqkout maybe? i dunno, its on the same level. they're very different records. this isnt a fall off or anything. but man, quik has almost all 8/10 records and up so

will you guys stop

also this album > blaqkout

regardless stop trying to justify your spin review that compared the record to three indie rap touchpoint artists anyway

some of the 'weirder' songs on blaqkout were cool at the time but this has many more great songs on it

will you guys stop

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 29, 2011 2:24 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stop what? you're overreacting

some of the 'weirder' songs on blaqkout were cool at the time but this has many more great songs on it

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 29, 2011 2:25 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it has more songs on it, period

speaking of kids who recently got into dj quik, j0rdan, one thing blaqkout has over this is that it was more novel terrain for quik, more out-there musically, than he gets on this record. The experimenting here feels (by a slight degree) less risky, more small-bore

yes but my point is that he traded novel terrain for better songs

naw, this album is great, but not as good as blaqkout, but that's easily my favorite rap album of the past 7 years or so.

I like the great songs (and there's more of 'em) more than the ones on Blaqkout, but it's still too long. That one was so perfectly sequenced.

That one was so perfectly sequenced.

yup

I'm literally not justifying anything, I'm openly questioning it.

And, yeah, I agree, EVERY quik album is dope which is why the hubbub about this seems weird.

But also, if were gonna be tactless and bridgeburny and criticize each others writing maybe we should all have a good LMFAO at the last line of your waka pitchfork review where your white guilt concern trolling about how real and authentic it is that HIS LITTLE BROTHER DIED AND HE SAID FUCK SCHOOL, you clown

whiney how about you come back when you've heard this more than once, whenever the next listening party is

lol

Like seriously, I looked the other way when you came at me with re: the yela review; but if you really want to go writing style vs writing style I'm ready for fucking war, son

is there "hubbub" about this record? six of us are posting about it here, p4k gave it a good score just like deej did the last one, idgi

whiney how about you come back when you've heard this more than once, whenever the next listening party is

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest

direct hit

Long story short, I need to hear this record again.

that waka line is pretty crucial to the album, just ftr

Long story short, I need to hear this record again.

Chapter's not over yet.

its ok j0rdan im pretty sure whiney just heard my review at a listening session bcuz thats not what i said at all

also this album > blaqkout

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:24 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont think its that decisive -- i mean, i think blaqkout on balance is a more interesting record in the quik catalog. musically, he's done a lot of this stuff before

interesting not nec. = 'better' but i think 'more interesting' is less disputable

is there any real point in me correcting k3vin's zing to reflect the truth, or is this just gonna be max vs "whiney running to see anco" again? :/

i dont think its that decisive -- i mean, i think blaqkout on balance is a more interesting record in the quik catalog. musically, he's done a lot of this stuff before

― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

there is no point, no

well, he hasn't surpassed Quik Is the Name imo, but whatever -- that was then and this is now.

im def in the camp that thinks rhythmalism is still his best record, and i think trauma is really underrated

'jet set' one of his best songs ever

the quik is the name that i have is aa early pressing of it & the volume is retardedly low

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYrPW19M44
i mean, this could slot into the new one

the quik is the name that i have is aa early pressing of it & the volume is retardedly low

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 29, 2011 2:50 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so turn it up -- they used to use less space on CDs back then so you could do more w/ an equalizer

otm

― bananas foster wallace (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, April 29, 2011 2:45 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we do agree about this, of course I think that this sound could never be a 7/10 :p

so turn it up

oh is that how that works? by golly!

haha it sounds dickish but i mean it!! a lot of early CDs had low volumes but only compared to contemporary ones ... they just left a lot more room, loudness wars related

i dunno someone else can probably tell you more about that. but complaining about how quiet it is doesnt really make sense unless you're doing the ipod shuffle thing.

whiney listen to the album a few more times, it warms up.
also everybody stop trolling each other.

Pardon me for being grumpy. I’m just really disappointed that some people are just so uncouth. You would think that after all of these years, and all of the examples that have been set, that people (wouldn’t) still push your buttons to the point to where you would wanna drag ‘em out in the hallway and stomp their fuckin’ teeth down their throat with your security guard.

i like that you do that with the Q command

other than bun b's dr. seuss bullshit, the guests on this are all pretty solid

lol

j0rdan what do you mean by "better songs" vis-à-vis this and blaqkout? this is very good but i don't think it's anywhere near blaqkout and songwriting seems an odd thing to pinpoint, unless you mean in the basic sense of the book of david being About Things That Happened To DJ Quik

DIAMONDS LIKE KABLOOEY

imagine that, an album called book of david being a diary

j0rdan what do you mean by "better songs" vis-à-vis this and blaqkout? this is very good but i don't think it's anywhere near blaqkout and songwriting seems an odd thing to pinpoint, unless you mean in the basic sense of the book of david being About Things That Happened To DJ Quik

Agree with this - I think his flow is much better here than on Blaqkout, but the production doesn't quite have the riotous energy of Blaqkout. But it's only the difference between a bursting-at-the-seams Basement Jaxx record and a really fun, satisfying straight house record, if you get me. New one is terrific but no album with a chorus as undeniable as Hey Playa can really be marked down for "songs".

yeah honestly i think j0rdan is just preferring a classic-sounding quik record rather than an off-the-cuff kitchen sink one

i still havent decided which i think is better.

Really loving Killer Dope, Across The Map and Poppin' so far.

'so compton' & the kurupt track are the ones ive been playing the most -- the vinyl copy they sent me was warped :( but they offered to replace it for free which was cool

Kurupt joint into "So Compton" is such a 1-2 smash. Quik's best albums have amazing sequencing.

"across the map" into "nobody" is glorious and gives me such a new appreciation for the latter (which i already loved) - this album basically gets better and better as it progresses imo.

only song i'm not feeling is "real women" b/c icky sentiment (for some reason outright misogyny doesn't bother me but misogyny cloaked in good-dude vibes is completely gross)

i always think bizzy bone is trina when he first comes in

the quik is the name that i have is aa early pressing of it & the volume is retardedly low

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 29, 2011 2:50 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so turn it up -- they used to use less space on CDs back then so you could do more w/ an equalizer

― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

volume is mastering not cd storage space. also turn it up! it will sound better than a fake "loud" cd

Yup.

i didnt mean that as 'storage space' but i didnt know the right word for it. i meant, as in, the wave form wasnt completely filling the space then

i think "ghetto rendezvous" is my favorite song of the year

for me "Real Women" is the one that's like chewing gum.

i think "ghetto rendezvous" is my favorite song of the year

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 15, 2011 8:55 PM (15 minutes ago)

yeah this song is so cold

YOU REALLY FROM PASA ROBLES

there's still not a song that i skip on this album

FORKSCLOVETOFU OTM

this is my favorite rap album of the past few years btw. i like what ship said on his blog - incredibly inventive and creative while stylistically being a throwback to his earlier records - he never slouches on this for a minute, switches up his flows like crazy. like "killer dope" starts out in the first verse with a playful but assertive callback to "ghetto rendezvous" and then hits you with that defiant third verse. the singles and earlier leaked tracks, which i liked before well enough, sound perfect in album context - the whole thing's really masterfully sequenced, and doesn't feel long at all. the last song is amzing too - great 3-parter with each being better than the one before it, ending with another installment of "quik's groove". one of these days i'm gonna make a CD just of all the "quik's groove" tracks

also I haven't really stopped playing balance and options since i got it
trauma and safe and sound somewhat less so but still working on it

you can drink that from a bottle of hair dye
YUM
sulfur8 in your mouth like yum
sulfur8 in ya mouth

compton alumni, A NO-GO

in the ofwgkta thread spirit, is it worth pointing out that quik has a fair amount of gay/faggot shit on this album?

there's still not a song that i skip on this album

"Hydromatic" is annoying -- HIIII-DRO-MATIC.

i think you're crazy personally; hydromatic is still a high point for me.

forks: not really, no

alfred: that song is amazing

forks i think someone (lex? deej?) actually brought it up in the OF thread

kev, if only to suggest that dude gets a pass on stuff that younger artists don't.

i listened to that early radio rip of hydromatic so much that the album one always sounds weird to me now

yeah, i miss the "wait... let it happen" part and Gift does not improve the track.

kev, if only to suggest that dude gets a pass on stuff that younger artists don't.

― it is sad but their is so much beauty (forksclovetofu), Monday, May 16, 2011 1:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*rolls eyes*

for me "Real Women" is the one that's like chewing gum.

i can't work out whether this is a compliment or not! i do not care for that song.

not enough talk about the new quik's groove!

shit's well hidden. i love the groove after shider on the end A LOT and wish he'd done more with it.

wiki is nutty... and loads of whiney!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_David

a rhythmically unique implosion of backmasked "Paul Revere & the Raiders" drums and Madvillainous drone

DIAMONDS LIKE KABLOOEY

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, May 1, 2011 3:05 AM Bookmark

How bout those drums on Fire and Brimstone? Pretty unique sounding for Quik.

yahhh, took me like half a minute to find the beat first time i heard it

are they backmasked somewhat?

no.

well they're definitely awesome somewhat

Had to look up what that meant.

From his catalog, I think the drums on Quiks Groove 6 (my fav Quiks Groove) have the closest sound to Fire & Brimstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyYScyiX3M

Tbh I assumed whiney made it up like 'swooshwave'

yah, i dunno; the cymbals sound right but the drum hits definitely sound backmasked to me. The impact is on the end of the sound.

i was thinking about starting a "quik's groove" poll actually

DO IT!

i'm at work, you can do it if you want

the horns on 'killer dope' are killing it for me this morning

shooting a "Nobody" video

sick

he's playing the Gathering of the Juggalos!!!

http://onethirtybpm.com/news/the-gathering-of-the-juggalos-2011-announces-lineup-with-new-infomercial/

Everybody read Jeff Weiss' piece in L.A. Weekly last week, I hope.

link?

http://www.laweekly.com/2011-06-02/music/dj-quik-trials-and-tribulations-of-a-west-coast-legend/

Reading now, thanks for the heads up.

http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/dj-quik-suga-free-nobody-021243027792100

damn, that's a great video

if suga free actually puts out a quik-produced album this year, quik will prob rival terius of 09

Yah great video, watched it a few times already. Love the last third when they just start dancing and acting a fool. How bout those manes?

<3 drunk quik dancing <3

ha xp

Quik just knows how to have a good time it seems. If I made a music video, I would totally be like that, but I wouldnt want it to be released. I'm so glad he doesn't care about how goofy he might look. He's one of the most endearing musicians on the planet.

right, that's it.. i'm growing my hair out and getting a Quik perm

holy shit

song of the year? (even though it leaked 2010)

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/06/dj_quik_the_book_of_david_interview.php

ha, I just noticed that after say he's "compelled to find every word that rhymes with orange", he then rhymes it with "doorhinge"!

also I've come around to the view that Jon B's little rap on "Hydromatic" is kind of awesome

it kinda sounds like something your kid brother would do; it's vaguely endearing

I'M A GOOSE HUNTER IN THE WINTER

I like the Job B verse on "Hydromatic." That track is so fucking good.

ants on ya eyebrows you can't even itch 'em
incisions at your autopsy they don't even stitch 'em

I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but this is pretty great. I like how he delivers the most venomous lines in such a calm, reasonable voice - the voice of experience, I guess.

bummed i missed this
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/arts/music/dj-quik-at-the-knitting-factory-review.html

i totally would have went if i had known :(

i need to be more aware of what's going on in the city but i just get bogged down in my own events.

SO MUTHERFUCKIN' COMPTON

THA HAAAA

Has anyone figured out what that sample of the British guy talking about the West Coast is from?

Still rinse this every week or two.

"rinse"

got a quincy jones in my bones / jeans splitta

Ever since moving to Los Angeles, I've tried to get into the region's hip hop music. (I was always a NY boom bap/Soulquarian's fan) This album has been a good gateway drug for that.

ummm...apparently quik and kurupt are working on another album together?

!

yoooo

Will be hard to recreate that magic though.

maybe. we'll see.

I don't expect them to recreate the magic, but give me more Kurupt verses, please. Blaqkout > The Book of David, but they're both way too fucking good.

You see some link talking about another album, roddy?

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.1771/title.kurupt-addresses-superficial-youngsters-and-declares-angry-kurupt-dead

that's a helluva headline

def prefer the back half of this album, just great

"you a motherfuckin' sex offender
put some honey on your dick and put it in a blender"

ghetto rendezvous is so o_O

Its harsh, I wonder what his sisters/families reaction was upon hearing it.

yea, for me, time has not made 'ghetto rendezvous' any less shocking...

DIAMONDS LIKE KABLOOEY

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, May 1, 2011 3:05 AM Bookmark

― The Reverend, Friday, May 20, 2011 2:05 PM Bookmark

this album so good

El Dorado rollin' got your El Camino stolen

love how much jon b is on this record

Quik has awesome taste in kind-of washed up rnb singers imo

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most definitely, gets 'em on the cheap I bet too.

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:31 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just confirmed; Tevin Campbell is lined up for the next lp.

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let's count it off one
Now we gon' show you all to have fun
Get dressed and hit the club about two
Ima order me a Henny and a brew
And Ima grab two girls or maybe three
Now get on the dancefloor with me
We wanna know what you came for
I wanna see you get it on the floor
Now we gon' push out about five
I'm feeling your buzz and beehive
Now lets go get some breakfast at six
Out in front of the diner, we taking pics
And I could see the red eye, it's like seven
Got the engine in the Tahoe revving
Pick up the check and bounce about eight
Now it's time to put you up on the plate

really love this album

"ghetto rendezvous" is still lowkey one of the craziest diss songs in rap history imo

"rest in peace to my niece, at least / when she was lying in state she had a grin on her mouthpiece / now what that tell you about you?" is really one of the most out of pocket things you could say to your sister

your hair is falling out
my hair is coming in
i put my hair in curls
i put yours in the garbage bin

god of the flexatone

I love the bit in "Time Stands Still" about lunching in Cheesecake Factory.

― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, April 23, 2011

ummm...apparently quik and kurupt are working on another album together?

― The Reverend, Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:44 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

:(

book of david as for sure a top tier quik release.

ghetto rendezvous sandwiched between do today and luv of my life was an... interesting choice. the duality of quik.