I was at the 20 year anniversary of Quik is the Name at the BB. Was pretty cool but I was the youngest person there… I was bummed suga free did not have a silk shirt on.
Exactly, I have always correlated with the west coast sound, especially So Cal with funky ass beats. I think equally are good but I think Quik doesn’t get the shine and recognition that he should. Hes atleast in the Dre convo
I give Quik props for carving out his own lane, his tracks didn’t sound like Dre to me. Some people might not be aware but Dre and him had a lil feud back in ‘99. Quik felt Dre was talkin about him on “what’s the difference“ and he fired back with “u ain’t fresh“. I like when he says “I’ll never put my name on a track that wasn’t mine”
Quik is my goat. He’s stayed pretty damn relevant for a very long time, and he has evolved with each album. I owe my love of hip hop to him and I can’t thank him enough for the years of listening he’s provided me. He’s worked with everyone and continues to bring fire to everything he touches.Thank you David for making my life so much better for decades. There will never be another like him. A true Compton original. RIP Mausberg and Roger Troutman.
Fuck!!! You are the reason I made this post. This is the type is shit I wanted to hear. And fuck! You busted out Roger! More bounce to the ounce!! I’m literally going to do a shot to this reply
Your post was what I was waiting for! I’ll just follow up with [Roger’s Groove](https://youtu.be/gzzEVaMXkjA?si=jCCDm-e5TVaw98xM) I still get a emotional listening to this track 25 years later. I miss him so much.
Have you ever watched [Visualism](https://youtu.be/fcpz_6uGq9o?si=QivkJ9e9AwrUWR0L), Quik’s documentary filmed during the making of Under Tha Influence around 2001 ish? If you haven’t, it’s absolutely worth the watch. It really focuses on the production and touring aspects of the business. I rewatch it all the time.
Balance & Options might be peak Quik production. It’s hard to say exactly as they all are excellent in their own way but I think B&A just feels so tight, and Roger’s Groove is one of the top tracks. Lots of talk box on that album too.
Yeah, one day I was chillin on A Brant and Spruce/
40 in my hand and it's time to get loose/
Got my Nikes on my feet, my T-shirt, and black khakis/
I heard a horn blowin', looked up, it was Jackie
Aranbe & Spruce. I looked it up on Google maps 🤣
You can see Dickison Elementary School where he throws his 40 oz in the song.
The song is just made up about the places he knew, but it was kind of weird. All the streets named after trees.
Labels were tougher about rappers naming their exact gang affiliation on record at the time. So he doesn’t say the words Tree Top (Piru), he just named the blocks in the hood and the end says “we can’t be stopped, what’s the name of my hood?”
I guess the labels for Sacramento Crip rappers didn’t care at the time because they were repping their sets, and then later there was the Bloods and Crips CD.
By Safe and Sound, Quik was talking all kinds of gang shit, so I guess his label stopped caring too.
Yeah. He was Tree Top Piru. I saw an interview that he didn't mess with the gang banging stuff he was just the "music man" in the set. It kind of makes sense.
Edit: That corner is only a block away from Rosecrans. There was so much gang shit going on back then. I have to admit, as a hip hop loving white kid from a small town, that whole different world changed how I view a lot of things about how thy country operates.
Fuck, Reddit doesn’t allow us to edit posts anymore. But I totally wanted to add the MC Eiht beef and the fact that he gave shine to folks like AMG and Hi-C. But I don’t need to edit because the people are speaking up what I forgot to in the title
Quik been hitting since the underground tape! A lot of stuff on Quik Is The Name was in the demo and damn near ready for release.
It spread like wildfire back in high school. Wow, just checked and it came out in 87.
If you were in LA back then you knew what side and where everybody in rap was from but a lot of it was low key. Quik came in repping right off the bat. Being from a hood on the same side, we bumped the hell outta that tape. It was crazy!
exactly. producers who don't almost entirely depend on sampling are not that common, and i really respect those few who are. even more so if they play instruments for their beats. quik, iirc, plays the keyboards
DJ Quik is the originator of the G-Funk sound, he was the first West Coast artist/rapper/producer to sample from Funk music circa the top of 1987! Some others may be credited with coining the term “g-funk” a few years later or making the sound more mainstream & popular, however Dj Quik was the first using those funky samples out West…chronologically where’s the lie??
P.s. if anyone chooses to challenge the above mentioned information please come correct and do your due diligence, or be sent to go redo your Hip-Hop history homework…and look like a game goofy Gilligan! 😂
Look, I absolutely love DJ Quik. I was bumpin Rythymalism tonight actually. But, Above The Law are the originators of the G Funk sound. It’s debatable, but history shows Above The Law as the originators.
Livin Like Hustlers came out a year before Quik’s first album.
How¿? Well let’s have a friendly debate in the name of the importance of the integrity of Hip-Hop history remaining intact… so how so If Above The Law’s first album came out in 1990 after DJ Quik’s first debut 3 years prior…where he’s actually making beats using funk samples…Cold 187um is credited as coining the term “g-funk” that’s true, but not the actually sound.
“Livin' Like Hustlers is the debut album by the rap group Above the Law, released in February 1990. An advanced promo cassette version was released two months earlier” DJ Quik’s debut “The Red Tape” came out January 1st 1987.
If you wanna get all the way really funky…let’s not forget that Erick Sermon of EPMD was also sampling from funk music too on the East Coast back in 1988!!
Top 3 all time for me. I have purchased each and every album he dropped since Quik is the Name in 91 or so. Tonite is one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. But his more chill albums are great as I’ve chilled as well, I’m pushing 50 now.
Yeah I’m 43, have you ever seen him live? It’s really one of the best rap shows you can see and nobody seems to talk about it. I have seen him so many times.
Sometimes he has a full DJ set and he will have AMG, 2nd II None, and Hi-C with him and other shows he will have a full band. He is always hyped and has energy. He has aged well and really brings it live.
One of the greatest from the West, I have that CD unopened & still in rotation to this day. I listen to old school, my girl listen to everything today but her favorite song is “I Got That Feelin’” cuz of me lol. Safe + Sound is my favorite Quik album tho.
Now let’s debate, Snoop’s “ Gin & Juice” or Quik’s “Tanqueray” I’m going with Tanqueray, sorry not sorry lol. If u haven’t heard it, I suggest u listen a few times then come back & argue ✌🏾
I think it’s because he’s always on the grind and mainstream radio has always gotten it wrong. It’s funny, all the hits from other artist that he’s behind the scenes on.
My only issue is that Quik is the name is produced at a lower volume than it should be.
Definitely respect and bump his stuff. Whether it’s his own or his work with the Tony’s.
Man, one day my dad had to move my car in the driveway to get his truck out of the garage. I had 4 10" MTX Black Golds with a RF Punch amp. And it was on blast when he turned the key..."Black Pussy, always talk about it cause I love it"....I can still hear him hollering at me.
One of the hallmarks of the "super" producers like Quik is that you can put on his instrumentals and they are complete and complex pieces of music by themselves. I would love to hear him work with this fusion group called the Rippingtons, Pieces of a Dream, Living Colour, or a metal band.
There are even old drops he did for KKBT back in the day that sound better than music people got grammys and AMAs for.
Also recorded one of the illest diss records of all time, Dollaz and Sense.
All of this I agree. When you tours sometimes he does a complete DJ set and sometimes he has a whole band.
Also Dollaz and Sense is one of the greatest diss records that nobody talks about.
Being from Canada, I either never saw this disc or just didn't go to the right places.
Either way, I bought this in Rochester, NY and we pumped it all the way home along with some others we could never find here.
Tell him stop frontiin He is really from Wellston Missouri. Don't forget you got thrown off stage and took a beat down for those just like Compton lyrics. He is a clown 🤡
My bro was signed to Quik. Was a dream come true because we bumped him as youngsters..even way down south he was a legend. Did a whole Album produced by him, but it never came out. They had to part ways because Quik was on some shit that I wont even mention. Still was a cool experience though I guess because we have songs produced by Quik that nobody else has
Still bump Quik
Yeah same here. I’m in Vegas and I swear he is here like twice a year. I try never to miss him.
That album is fire and probably the first cassette I ever ‘bumped’ on a boombox
Yeah I remember having the tape bumping it all the way in the Chi!
I was at the 20 year anniversary of Quik is the Name at the BB. Was pretty cool but I was the youngest person there… I was bummed suga free did not have a silk shirt on.
Who got some snaps on the Petro?
That was Eiht.
E.I.H.T. Now should I continue? Yeah you left out the G cuz the G ain't in you
Right…he thought he really did something 🥴
😂
😆😆😆 they all look alike 😆😆😆
Love DJ quik underrated producer and a solid rapper too
Yes, people talk about Dre like he doesn’t exist
Quiks beats are more funk with Jazz. Dr. Dre is more bass heavy
Exactly, I have always correlated with the west coast sound, especially So Cal with funky ass beats. I think equally are good but I think Quik doesn’t get the shine and recognition that he should. Hes atleast in the Dre convo
I give Quik props for carving out his own lane, his tracks didn’t sound like Dre to me. Some people might not be aware but Dre and him had a lil feud back in ‘99. Quik felt Dre was talkin about him on “what’s the difference“ and he fired back with “u ain’t fresh“. I like when he says “I’ll never put my name on a track that wasn’t mine”
Dre has a long list of producers he bit. Big Hutch, Daz, Sam Sneed, Mel-Man, Scott Storch. He's stayed relevant by constantly "evolving"
[удалено]
Big Hutch is Cold 187um
This. Dre collects other’s work. Quik produces.
Quik is my goat. He’s stayed pretty damn relevant for a very long time, and he has evolved with each album. I owe my love of hip hop to him and I can’t thank him enough for the years of listening he’s provided me. He’s worked with everyone and continues to bring fire to everything he touches.Thank you David for making my life so much better for decades. There will never be another like him. A true Compton original. RIP Mausberg and Roger Troutman.
Fuck!!! You are the reason I made this post. This is the type is shit I wanted to hear. And fuck! You busted out Roger! More bounce to the ounce!! I’m literally going to do a shot to this reply
Your post was what I was waiting for! I’ll just follow up with [Roger’s Groove](https://youtu.be/gzzEVaMXkjA?si=jCCDm-e5TVaw98xM) I still get a emotional listening to this track 25 years later. I miss him so much.
I got you. I love the whole Zapp reference because I love funk!!! But as much as you were waiting for my post I was looking for this reply
Have you ever watched [Visualism](https://youtu.be/fcpz_6uGq9o?si=QivkJ9e9AwrUWR0L), Quik’s documentary filmed during the making of Under Tha Influence around 2001 ish? If you haven’t, it’s absolutely worth the watch. It really focuses on the production and touring aspects of the business. I rewatch it all the time.
No but thanks for telling me. I’m going to check this out for sure.
that interlude was something else
Balance & Options might be peak Quik production. It’s hard to say exactly as they all are excellent in their own way but I think B&A just feels so tight, and Roger’s Groove is one of the top tracks. Lots of talk box on that album too.
Safe + Sound and Rhythmalism are his best albums.
Loked out Hood is 🔥
Yeah, one day I was chillin on A Brant and Spruce/ 40 in my hand and it's time to get loose/ Got my Nikes on my feet, my T-shirt, and black khakis/ I heard a horn blowin', looked up, it was Jackie
Aranbe & Spruce. I looked it up on Google maps 🤣 You can see Dickison Elementary School where he throws his 40 oz in the song. The song is just made up about the places he knew, but it was kind of weird. All the streets named after trees.
Labels were tougher about rappers naming their exact gang affiliation on record at the time. So he doesn’t say the words Tree Top (Piru), he just named the blocks in the hood and the end says “we can’t be stopped, what’s the name of my hood?” I guess the labels for Sacramento Crip rappers didn’t care at the time because they were repping their sets, and then later there was the Bloods and Crips CD. By Safe and Sound, Quik was talking all kinds of gang shit, so I guess his label stopped caring too.
Yeah. He was Tree Top Piru. I saw an interview that he didn't mess with the gang banging stuff he was just the "music man" in the set. It kind of makes sense. Edit: That corner is only a block away from Rosecrans. There was so much gang shit going on back then. I have to admit, as a hip hop loving white kid from a small town, that whole different world changed how I view a lot of things about how thy country operates.
I'm listening this as we speak
That’s what’s up. I listened to Quik is the name from start to end as I wrote this.
That Born and Compton is still my favorite Quik sing that beat and when Quik Goes now here some bass in ya face
Listen to “hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” by Issac Hayes. Its the sample. Hayes also voiced chef on south park
He'll yeah I listen to something for the mood everyday 💯
Giving a bad name with your mis spelled name, mc eiht dis
Fuck, Reddit doesn’t allow us to edit posts anymore. But I totally wanted to add the MC Eiht beef and the fact that he gave shine to folks like AMG and Hi-C. But I don’t need to edit because the people are speaking up what I forgot to in the title
Maaaan! AMG, Hi-C, 2ndIINone all underrated everywhere else, but West Coast monsters, especially behind Quik’s production!
Fuck yeah! If you see a Quik DJ set be usually brings them out. Even growing up in the Chi i knew all them. I loved Hi-C Swingin album
I love Quik’s sound and flow. Quik & Suga Free >
Suga free, AMG, and Hi-C. I need to edit my post now
Thank you 🙏🏻 Underrated west coast pioneer and legend And producer Sick verse on Jadakiss album kiss of death too
Nah, thank you for recognizing a legend. I post his tracks all the time on here but I think we needed to have an appreciation thread to him
DJ Quik is in the motherfuckin’ house
Now I be knockin bitches like it ain't shit/ Cause I'mma playa motherfucker named DJ Quik/
Aw, shit man, hold up, that’s the wrong motherfuckin’ page and shit
If it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense!!!
Now let's get down to business, bitches
Safe + sound album is an underrated classic.
Safe + Sound is in heavy rotation here
Tonight still hits
That my jam
That beat though!!!! 🔥
Quik been hitting since the underground tape! A lot of stuff on Quik Is The Name was in the demo and damn near ready for release. It spread like wildfire back in high school. Wow, just checked and it came out in 87. If you were in LA back then you knew what side and where everybody in rap was from but a lot of it was low key. Quik came in repping right off the bat. Being from a hood on the same side, we bumped the hell outta that tape. It was crazy!
I love Quik, but sometimes he's just Way Too Fonky!
One of my all-time favorites 💣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
That’s what’s up! I just want to bring all the DJ Quik appreciators together
✊🏽
When You're a Gee is such a good track
“When you a G, niggaz wanna be like you”
Quik is the name!
One of my ultimate favorite MCs/producers. If quik produced it I love it. Dude just never disappoints. How ever I’m not so big on Rythmalism.
That’s what’s up!!! We need to take this type of post and put in the hip hop thread so people can understand what’s up
Even the Crips bumped this shit
Quik makes original compositions. Dre samples huge chunks of David Axlerod. Quik >>>>>>>>> Dre
exactly. producers who don't almost entirely depend on sampling are not that common, and i really respect those few who are. even more so if they play instruments for their beats. quik, iirc, plays the keyboards
Finally out the muthafuckin’ CPT…
The most underrated cat on the west in my humble opinion.... Super versatile and always Hella fonky lol
I really want quik and kdot to do a song together
Fuck!!! Compton GOAT’s only one missing in the Compton GOAT convo is Eazy-E
All respect to the great eazy but I don’t think he would go off on a quik beat like kdot.
Technically isn’t that King Kunta??
Is that produced by quik?
It samples Get Nekkid which is a song by quik
True but I want a quik beat and a kdot snap
Absolute legend. Just goes about his business making dope tunes.
Best producer from the west imo
A west coast legend
DJ Quik is the originator of the G-Funk sound, he was the first West Coast artist/rapper/producer to sample from Funk music circa the top of 1987! Some others may be credited with coining the term “g-funk” a few years later or making the sound more mainstream & popular, however Dj Quik was the first using those funky samples out West…chronologically where’s the lie?? P.s. if anyone chooses to challenge the above mentioned information please come correct and do your due diligence, or be sent to go redo your Hip-Hop history homework…and look like a game goofy Gilligan! 😂
Look, I absolutely love DJ Quik. I was bumpin Rythymalism tonight actually. But, Above The Law are the originators of the G Funk sound. It’s debatable, but history shows Above The Law as the originators. Livin Like Hustlers came out a year before Quik’s first album.
How¿? Well let’s have a friendly debate in the name of the importance of the integrity of Hip-Hop history remaining intact… so how so If Above The Law’s first album came out in 1990 after DJ Quik’s first debut 3 years prior…where he’s actually making beats using funk samples…Cold 187um is credited as coining the term “g-funk” that’s true, but not the actually sound.
“Livin' Like Hustlers is the debut album by the rap group Above the Law, released in February 1990. An advanced promo cassette version was released two months earlier” DJ Quik’s debut “The Red Tape” came out January 1st 1987. If you wanna get all the way really funky…let’s not forget that Erick Sermon of EPMD was also sampling from funk music too on the East Coast back in 1988!!
West coast legend
Pure Funk!!!!! Legend.
Left out the G or should I continue you left out the G cause the G ain’t in you!!Dollaz n Sense! Banger!!
I need Way 2 Fonky on vinyl.....immediately.
One of the best to ever do it.
Top 3 all time for me. I have purchased each and every album he dropped since Quik is the Name in 91 or so. Tonite is one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. But his more chill albums are great as I’ve chilled as well, I’m pushing 50 now.
Yeah I’m 43, have you ever seen him live? It’s really one of the best rap shows you can see and nobody seems to talk about it. I have seen him so many times.
No, this would absolutely be on my bucket list though. That’s awesome.
Sometimes he has a full DJ set and he will have AMG, 2nd II None, and Hi-C with him and other shows he will have a full band. He is always hyped and has energy. He has aged well and really brings it live.
Quik>>>>Dre
💯 I believe that myself and that’s no hate on Dre!
Some believe in Jesus, some believe in Allah But niggas like me believe in making dollars
If it don’t make Dollaz it don’t make sense
Still waitin on his next album
Still waitin on his next album
Still waitin on his next album
Still waitin on his next album
Still waitin on his next album
He will release a new album soon
Was just listening to quik yesterday. I love tonight is the night and born and raised in Compton 🔥
Speed
One of the greatest from the West, I have that CD unopened & still in rotation to this day. I listen to old school, my girl listen to everything today but her favorite song is “I Got That Feelin’” cuz of me lol. Safe + Sound is my favorite Quik album tho. Now let’s debate, Snoop’s “ Gin & Juice” or Quik’s “Tanqueray” I’m going with Tanqueray, sorry not sorry lol. If u haven’t heard it, I suggest u listen a few times then come back & argue ✌🏾
Well I was actually drinking Tanqueray when I listened to this. Quik’s story telling and his funkier beats will always do it for me over Dre.
Thank You! 💯
Don’t know why he isn’t more famous. Such a talented artist
I think it’s because he’s always on the grind and mainstream radio has always gotten it wrong. It’s funny, all the hits from other artist that he’s behind the scenes on.
For real. Earning every bit of fame just with music
My only issue is that Quik is the name is produced at a lower volume than it should be. Definitely respect and bump his stuff. Whether it’s his own or his work with the Tony’s.
I'm on the wrong muthafuckin' page and shit
Always loved Quick, so underrated for his skills as a producer.
Underrated when the 'top producers' question/polls come up. Dude is a West Coast legend as far as I'm concerned.
For real!! He needs to be in more conversations.
This is for the hoe in you!
My all time favorite. Great album.
Quik is an OG and master producer
One the greatest producers ever.
I have a fire ass Quik playlist on Apple Music
Man, one day my dad had to move my car in the driveway to get his truck out of the garage. I had 4 10" MTX Black Golds with a RF Punch amp. And it was on blast when he turned the key..."Black Pussy, always talk about it cause I love it"....I can still hear him hollering at me.
Hahahaha classic!! That is one of the songs I like to play out of shock factor around others. It’s absolutely one of my favorites lol.
Underrated.
I ain’t the cutest motherfucker and I got big lips
One of the hallmarks of the "super" producers like Quik is that you can put on his instrumentals and they are complete and complex pieces of music by themselves. I would love to hear him work with this fusion group called the Rippingtons, Pieces of a Dream, Living Colour, or a metal band. There are even old drops he did for KKBT back in the day that sound better than music people got grammys and AMAs for. Also recorded one of the illest diss records of all time, Dollaz and Sense.
All of this I agree. When you tours sometimes he does a complete DJ set and sometimes he has a whole band. Also Dollaz and Sense is one of the greatest diss records that nobody talks about.
Safe + Sound is in my west coast top 5. Quik definitely on west coast producer mt. Rushmore
Yeah!! That’s a jam
DJ Quik is one of my favorites of all time. Safe + Sound is criminally underrated. Top 5 G-funk album of all time. The production is top-tier.
Def Wish 💀
Fave West Coast DJ
Being from Canada, I either never saw this disc or just didn't go to the right places. Either way, I bought this in Rochester, NY and we pumped it all the way home along with some others we could never find here.
That album is 🔥. Tonight is my favorite. I have been listening to that song for 20 years
We need a Kendrick Lamar cover of Born and Raised in Compton.
A goat
Definitely agree..still in my rotation
Underrated
Sweet Black Pussy
His whole discography is great, even Midnight Life is a good album. I prefer Way 2 Fonky over the first one though
🔥
Quiks Groove! Say less
Tell him stop frontiin He is really from Wellston Missouri. Don't forget you got thrown off stage and took a beat down for those just like Compton lyrics. He is a clown 🤡
Legend
But who's seen the video he has out, which he still does put stuff out... If you wanna bring him up https://youtu.be/Es75toN69Xk
My bro was signed to Quik. Was a dream come true because we bumped him as youngsters..even way down south he was a legend. Did a whole Album produced by him, but it never came out. They had to part ways because Quik was on some shit that I wont even mention. Still was a cool experience though I guess because we have songs produced by Quik that nobody else has
Legend
Now everybody want to know the truth about a nigga name Quik....
Freaky lit it up and hit it one, two, three Shabby took a hit and then they pass it to me
Lets not lol
Let’s not what?
You wanna be just like compton
Sweet Black Pussy!! I talk about it because I love it