Supposedly, DJ Quik's last solo album, The Best of DJ Quik: Da Finale, is an awesome collection from an excellent rapper who is much better known for his production skills. Quik has worked with an incredible amount of superstars including Janet Jackson, 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Whitney Houston, and Dr. Dre, but his rapping is a whole other universe. Coming straight outta Compton's mean streets in 1991, Quik had a style not so different than Eazy-E, though Quik is a...   [ read more ]

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"Blaqkout is an audible feast, filled with Quik's rich production and Kurupt's tenacious lyricism. As Kurupt says on the album's opening title-track, 'This is one of those things when you put it together, you make gumbo.' From top to bottom, Blaqkout maintains a loose, let's-make-this-record-for-the-hell-of-it feel, which is probably why Quik and Kurupt sound so comfortable in their roles as producer and MC (even if Quik puts in time on the mic on nearly every track). '9x's Outta 10' is a standout displ...   [ read more ]

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Instead of joining the G-Funk movement during the '90s, DJ Quik created his own style of P-Funk with equal nods to Roger Troutman (Zapp), Geaorge Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic) and N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E). The first one-man hit squad, he produced tracks with an unadulterated love for the music, while writing rhymes with miles of laid-back style. The 1991 debut, Quik Is The Name, immediately established DJ Quik as a new force in West Coast hip-hop and heralded the arrival of one of the most extr...   [ read more ]

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