wutz good w. dj quik

i'm coming around on can u werk that, i'd like to know what rtc was gonna complain about now! its def a song that gets better when hammered thru repetition.

Tim, I think you'd really like the Rhythmalism album if you haven't heard it.

yeah i mean beardo only mentioned cuz that was the context in which moonship was talking about grown folks disco. a similar point of comparison, more locally for me, would be steppin. Sort of the grown 'n' sexy dance music vs. the kids ghetto house/ rap music.

but yeah MAW is an interesting comparison point actually, except i hear more INTENT in MAW's disco to be 'taking it wayyyy back.'

I was talking about this in some other thread, how i wish dudes would make more dance/hip-hop blends - ethan started talking about the blade 2 soundtrack as usual but i'm thinking more like a lot of what Quik does - beats up in the 112 bmp area, rappers who sound comfortable over what is essentially house music.

Tim have you heard Suga Free's "Pimpin in the Year 3000"?

I finally copped Skanless, the Hi-C album, and yeah tremendoid was right its pretty amazing...I like old school Hi-C way more than the modern incarnation, the Eazy E comparison is on point.

to elaborate on the dance/hip-hop blends comment - it seems like a lot of the 'real dance' dudes are 'real rap'-phobic, passing on a lot of great shit that would probably fit really well in dance sets; the only way you can hear something vaguely combining the two is trashy post-hollertronix djs who just mash up, like, justice and lil jon

ha yeah, i'm still whatevs about it but as soon as i wrote that i did think to myself "bet this'll turn out to be one of those underwhelming nothing tunes that'll rule the world in 6 months" a la jim jones or mims etc, and then vahid only made me surer.

saying that tho, in terms of those kinda tunes you only get a feel of that sort of intoxicating social energy in a v shitty fake 2nd hand way in england, if at all, and i'm not about to wear out the mp3 play button desperately failing to recreate that. ldn has enough dsouth hipster dickheads bumping gucci mane or whatever as it is.

anyway fucking hell man if it says quik on the record i'm expecting to hear quik! someone else can be the fixxers.

spank rock to thread

bah i shouldnt have said gucci mane, that 'bird flu' thing's kinda fun really

the upshot of this "bloghouse" / "fidget house" thing is that there is going to be a new wave of street-rap-meets-house over the next year or so, mark my words (cf. "hit me on my beeper")

wznt that supposed to be happening lately in deej's neck of the woods? juke or something?

sinden can fuck off.

ha yeah, i'm still whatevs about it but as soon as i wrote that i did think to myself "bet this'll turn out to be one of those underwhelming nothing tunes that'll rule the world in 6 months" a la jim jones or mims etc, and then vahid only made me surer.

saying that tho, in terms of those kinda tunes you only get a feel of that sort of intoxicating social energy in a v shitty fake 2nd hand way in england, if at all, and i'm not about to wear out the mp3 play button desperately failing to recreate that. ldn has enough dsouth hipster dickheads bumping gucci mane or whatever as it is.

anyway fucking hell man if it says quik on the record i'm expecting to hear quik! someone else can be the fixxers.

-- r|t|c, Sunday, May 20, 2007 7:55 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^ this is a really good post

the story behind 'werk that':

What do you feel is wrong with music?

QUIK: Right now I think it's just away from the growth of music. It sounds like it's snatch and grab. Coming up with a ]catchy hook and an 808 beat and people keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. And that's OK.

that is a terrific quote. haha like, not insomuch as it makes a great case for anything, but just the peaceful quikian zen generousness of it either way!! ilx 3.0 should totally force all posts to have "and that's ok" at the end of them.

http://a692.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00652/19/63/652333691_l.jpg

you know who else deserves a thread like this? fucking DJ BATTLECAT. it only recently occured to me that i don't think i ever heard a battlecat beat i didnt enjoy, yet how comes i never felt that need to really spend time really thinking about him?? or is that just me?

"I was talking about this in some other thread, how i wish dudes would make more dance/hip-hop blends - ethan started talking about the blade 2 soundtrack as usual but i'm thinking more like a lot of what Quik does - beats up in the 112 bmp area, rappers who sound comfortable over what is essentially house music."

Yeah, sometimes I listen to current hip house revivalism - "Touch Your Toes" or whatever - and wonder why its supporters don't just listen to uptempo hip hop and R&B (Mya's "Free" alone is a better urban/dance fusion than anything else any of us listened to this week). But kudos to Van Helden I guess for not using a corny rapper.

That said (incl. the bit about corniness) Deej you might like Studio R ft. Capitol A - "A & R (Llorca Remix)".

I'll track down your recommendation.

i am making one last appeal for ppl to recognize this tune's wickedness and if that doesnt work then fuck the lot of you

ive only the vaguest idea of how it relates to this thread, but still!

and that's ok

http://myspace-252.vo.llnwd.net/00421/25/28/421088252_l.jpg

man quik really killed eiht on 'dollaz and sense'

Monday, June 30, 2008

WEST QUEST.
Category: Music

DJ QUIK & KURUPT
CD IN STORES OCT '08
OFFICIAL STREET DATE FOR SINGLE-JULY 4 '08

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTIONS.

OH MY DAM

This is a good combo actually!

what actually haha i wasn't being sarcastic. i been watching too much Martin lately

2nd ii none - the shit = so good

the fixxers is so good

some classic deej multi-posts upthread

lol @ u posting to ilx on vacation

has anyone seen VISUALISM, the quik behind the scenes movie? i am downloading it now.

http://www.westcoast2k.net/media/DjQuik_-_A_Bedtime_Story_Feat_Suga_Free_(www.westcoast2k.net).wma

^ amazing radio freestyle spot tribute over some quincy jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg9tsi_jJlI

not quik but i totally forgot about this!!

has anyone seen VISUALISM, the quik behind the scenes movie? i am downloading it now.

-- r|t|c, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:27 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this used to be up on youtube! if its what im thinking it is. i saw the whole thing. part with el debarge is great esp.

his myspace said the street date for the kurupt/quik track was july 4 but i haven't see any sign of it (not that ive looked very hard). he was recently on the remix for 'i'm toe up' by compton rapper Problem

btw 'can u werk with dat' has kinda become classic to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyph0lmTvGk

is this new? its aight but i was expecting vaughn mason :(((((((((

ha yeah thats reasonably new. i forgot about it

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possibly the best song to skate to of all time. you can just feel it all through your body and you just FLOW across the floor. i used to skate all night long to this song in my dreams as a teen in Bmore, especially in the summer. we lived and breathed skatin'. that's what these kids are missing today. we need more skating and less hanging out at the mall spending money.

haha otm

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man quik really killed eiht on 'dollaz and sense'

― deej, Thursday, July 5, 2007 3:16 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

now i never had my dick sucked by a man before
but you gon be the first you little trick ass hoe
then you can tell me just how it taste
but before i nut i shoot some piss in your face

im convinced that early 90s dj quik was the template for the whole mid 90s atl organized noize sound

lol http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cq2m96oogep7

Yeah, was looking at that the other day. Balance & Options, too.

There's a best-of on Quik that's pretty much flawless.

its great but imo probably not the best at translating what makes his stuff 'work' -- as w/ a lot of rap producers his collaborative stuff is part of the story too -- plus his albums (and the quikstrumentals, the fake reggae joints, plus the fact that his early career sounds so diff from his later stuff, and bcuz imo Trauma is one of his best records and that was post 'best-of') most ppl are better off getting a big picture view of his catalog --

but of course i would say that

xp: Most of his albums are pretty much flawless!

Just what rap needs: one more guy boasting about his majestic penis and how good he is at treating women like gutter trash.

finally somebody else gets it

Pre Order Now! Link in Bio pic.twitter.com/4ygQtcvzEL

— Dj Quik (@djquik) March 20, 2023
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Monday, 20 March 2023 23:50 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

^ what was the deal with this. I seem to remember being excited about something but nothing ever materialised? was it a song or album he was teasing.

going back to midnight life this morning, production on stuff like 'trapped on the tracks' is still mind blowing. would love a proper new solo record.

it was a song and wasnt any good

does anyone else feel like blaqkout ages better every year

ive heard ppl say the opposite but I think theyre populism uber alles types

it still sounds as fresh as ever if anything

blaqkout is still incredible. i think the book of david is just as good, if less adventurous

Blaqkout has been my quintessential summer album- those people are crazy

I love it. Feels like an experiment but in the best way.

yea the singular unpredictability of it feels more and more novel in the streaming /playlist era!! which is over now I guess (we're in the reels/tiktok era) but still

like wtf is jupiters critic and the mind of mars? no idea but i love that it exists.

almost ten years ago to the day lol

Gargantuan, cannon cocker BLAKA BLAKA BLAKA

― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, June 23, 2014 1:50 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

still my fav quik beat:

'cream n ya panties' sounds amazing on a good car sound system

― prego, Friday, September 23, 2011 4:36 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think this is my favorite beat of the last ten years.

― Spottie, Monday, January 1, 2018 11:52 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

one for the banality thread

After the hotel we migrate up to the lab
To make a beat with Saadiq, and eat some lobster and crab

so how is the new album?

ehhhhh, about half the songs are worth listening to.

gonna check it out because jasonmartin/problem performed the hell out of “like whaaat” during the kendrick pop out

love his delivery on the hook of since i was lil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XuU4OTJU8

finally got to this album, which i really enjoyed but it could've used about 100% less jayceon taylor

this summer's jay worthy x dam funk album scratches a similar itch

bone thugs-n-harmony, three 6 mafia AND dj quik touring together this summer?! sign me the fuck up.