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How's this for hot - his single for Tony Toni Tone where they're interpolating nirvana on the hook!

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CyF4sJ-pNJQ

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

he's really such a great party producer, lyrics are never dumbed down, and he evolved in a way that didn't sacrifice his strong suit - like "Tonite" drops when he's 21 and all he wants to do is grab a 40 and get drunk tonight, but by rhythmalism he's adapted to growing up w/ grace - "We still party, we get high/ sometimes we don't feel grown-up and that's no lie." Its like what Vahid was talking about in the beardo thread, about how the music's developed as he's transitioned from early 20s' rave music to hipster club house.

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry to mention beardo in a

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

uh cut off?

sorry to mention beardo in a Quik thread, it won't happen again

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

matter of fact strike that last paragraph altogether, makes latter-day quik sound boring!

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link

some more interesting Quik moments:

Whitney Houston - "Fine" http://youtube.com/watch?v=NfFJSwKO9Sc

DJ Quik remix of Boomkat's "The Wreckoning" (no link, sorry. actually this is more interesting as a curiosity than really 'good')

Deborah Cox - "One Wish"

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

also DJ Quik live @ the house of blues > Jay-Z Unplugged

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link

2nd ii none video from '91!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7njf2z-40

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link

I still haven't heard the first two Hi-C albums ('skanless' and 'swingin') but i've been meaning to, if i can ever find them. maybe i should defend "Hi Life Hustle" more than just saying i just listen to the beats - he's a pretty good rapper

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link

rolling 2007 deej thread

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

deej i like most of your assessment but glossing over Way 2 Fonky is a no-no. Jus Lyke Compton bitch! Not to mention maybe the best quik's groove and a bunch of nasty ass shit. He kind of deferred to the 2nd II None ethos over a lot of it(they were already broken by then iirc?) but his beats are all on point pre-Chronic wild hard funk hooks, love that style but it didn't get much of a heyday before g-funk came in.
u also forgot that one single by Juvenile Committee, though the rest of that album was butt-acious.

tremendoid, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link

skanless is a must hear. hi-c is like, ignorantly ignorant when it comes to women and his flow comes and goes(i should say his flow always fits his voice, he had the eazy style 'pleasant scream' going on that could be off-putting) but the beats are almost all dynamite with a couple of duds. Got a classic quik-stable posse cut too. Haven't heard his recent stuff.

tremendoid, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i dont know why i thought skanless was hard to find, amazon's got it for 10 bucks

i agree about way 2 fonky! - its great too. was that the one that chris rock put in his list, or was that safe + sound?

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

i agree about way 2 fonky! - its great too. was that the one that chris rock put in his list, or was that safe + sound?

yes, chris rock put way 2 fonky on his list.

Eisbaer, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

as far as AMG, i know 'bitch betta have my money' is considered a classic but i had trouble getting into it when i first checked it out

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Listening to the 'Quik's Groove II' off way 2 fonky right now, i really wish he'd release a dj shadow/rjd2 style instrumental album like this. Good lord, perfect summer weather music.

deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow, I'd never connected the dots between "Let's Get Down" & "Smells Like Teen Spirit", probably because I never heard the later 'til well aftfer the fact. Interesting. I absolutely love "Lets Get Down".

The live album is really good. I wouldn't quite put it above Jay-Z Unplugged, but its pretty damn close. But that's the only Quik thing I have. What would you advise for a second Quik purchase?

The Reverend, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I always loved his song in bust a groove.

forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Ha deej I almost understand why you mentioned beardo but the Quick I've heard always makes me think of Masters of Work more - relaxed svelte disco. Although actually it's more commercial than that. Like, that "Break Bread" song. He should have produced Will Smith - or did he?

I hadn't heard "Hand In Hand", thanks for posting that.

Tim F, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link

i have nothing to contribute to this thread except that this new conversational turn towards talking about grownup relaxed svelte disco makes me think of snoop ft nate dogg "crazy", which i was kicking back to today and thinking about how it would totally sound great if they did a remix with peabo bryson and grover washington jr. then i listened to some madlib.

"Chromski A.K. Gattlington"?? ELLI$?

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link

also the mobile DJs that spin in the quad fridays during lunch play "can u werk that" almost as much as they play the pack.

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

deej, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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

deej, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link

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, 20 May 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link

spank rock to thread

moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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")

moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link

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

sinden can fuck off.

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

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

and what, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

deej, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link

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

deej, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.

Tim F, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link

and that's ok

r|t|c, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

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

deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

man quik really killed eiht on 'dollaz and sense'

deej, Thursday, 5 July 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

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.

deej, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link

OH MY DAM

tremendoid, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 06:16 (fifteen years ago) link

This is a good combo actually!

Tim F, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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

tremendoid, Friday, 4 July 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link

2nd ii none - the shit = so good

sleep, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link

the fixxers is so good

jhøshea, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link

some classic deej multi-posts upthread

gr8080, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link

lol @ u posting to ilx on vacation

deej, Friday, 4 July 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

there's a 10-minute track
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rosecrans-ep/id1102635995

Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link

man this is pure comfort food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LzLA8B9j0

Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link

"So, his celebrity supersedes his talent right now? Yes. Come on, he's a Kardashian now, what the fuck. What he gonna do to me? Beat me up? It's Kanye. See, this is a challenge. This ain't a diss, it's just a challenge. Make your best music, because fans aren't stupid. They're just not."

yep

Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link

this EP is great

Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link

is there an eternal rmx of the long song yet

omg at the breakout hook

ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link

or is it pong?

ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link

Probs

Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Thursday, 21 April 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

hmmm

https://twitter.com/YG/status/762666231530860545

Spottie, Monday, 8 August 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link

He sure comes off a lot more reasonable in that interview than on twitter

niels, Friday, 12 August 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link

yeah he's all over the place on social media.

Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link

cool to hear him talk a bit about production, Rosecrantz EP sounds great, and come to think of it the sound quality is probably part of what drew me to Quik

niels, Friday, 12 August 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link

def

Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link

is there perhaps some history of quik not getting proper acknowledgement of contributions? his phrasing re "In Da Club" percussion kinda seems like it:

Right. They don't even know why they like that song "In Da Club" by 50 Cent. They just know that they've heard it more than any other song, and it never gets old somehow. Well, it's because I helped Dr. Dre with the drums. I gave him those claps, and that kick. He acknowledges that now. I used to say for years, "You guys don't understand! I gave Dr. Dre those drum sounds!" "Yeah, yeah, okay David." And now when I go into the studio with Dre, he'll tell his people. And I'm like, Dre, that right there is worth more than any advance you could have ever paid me, any royalty or publishing. Acknowledgment like that from you? I'm good.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/qanda-with-dj-quik-i-still-got-my-talent-thats-not-going-anywhere-6633786

niels, Saturday, 13 August 2016 08:49 (seven years ago) link

i've always thought that beat was very quik-esque!

He's also why all eyez on me sounds so great. Don't think he got full credit for that alb

Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link

Didn't know he did stuff on AEOM besides "hearts of men"

brimstead, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link

Though something like "all about u" does have a Quik-y groove

brimstead, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link

Can't Remember what interview I read it in, might even be itt, but he helped get it across the finish line

Think it was an interview with Sway?

Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link

he mentions it in that billboard interview that you posted

just sayin, Saturday, 13 August 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link

eight months pass...

Full Rosecrans album out now. looks like the old EP plus 6 new tracks

Problem and DJ Quik’s Rosecrans Tracklist
1. “European Vacation” Feat. AMG
2. “A New Nite / Rosecrans Grove”
3. “Bad Azz” Feat. Dom Kennedy, Boogie & Bad Lucc
4. “Move Something”
5. “Rosecrans” Feat. The Game & Candice Boyd
6. “You Are Everything”
7. “Chachi’s Ride” Feat. Brittany Barber & Bryan J
8. “Take It Off One Time” Feat. Bad Lucc & Bryan J
9. “This Is Your Moment” Feat. Wiz Khalifa & Buddy
10. “Straight to the City”
11. “Central Ave” Feat. MC Eiht
12. “Funny How N****s Gon Change Things” Feat. MC Eiht & Suga Free

Spottie, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link

good looking out!

Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

Just waiting on new music from Quik

2Fonky, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link

that one song from last year the beat has like every single quik sound effect crammed into one song lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm-wizYf1TQ

big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link

Lol I wasn’t a fan of World Girl at first but I grew to like it lol

I hope him and Scarface release that project they announced a while back but who knows...I’m a Quik stan and have searched and talked on any forums that discuss Quik lol

2Fonky, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

dope thx

auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

quik and suga free singing some doobies

Seeing Quik & Suga Free singing What A Fool Believes will likely end up being the highpoint of my 2023. pic.twitter.com/qOu85hN3hc

— Doc (@docadam) January 22, 2023

sault bae (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 January 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link

somewhat redeeming the existence of twitter there

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 January 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link

sure, but that tweet is just a reposted tiktok

sault bae (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 January 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link

that looks like it’s from the “Nobody” music video shoot. definitely looked like they were having a fun time making that one.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 23 January 2023 04:35 (one year ago) link

Somewhat redeeming the existence of tiktok there

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 January 2023 07:29 (one year ago) link

it's here in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3tPRxoVbLM

nothing redeems tiktok imo

but that is a wonderful moment

corrs unplugged, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

yesssss

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) link

lesgo!

corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 07:47 (one year ago) link


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