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fukk him
dj quik always gets the dr. dre "jr" treatment, but where does he really rank among dre, rza, premo?
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Grand_Verbalizer
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Are you talking specifically about Quik and G-funk ?
Or the whole west coast which includes Muggs, Madlib, Alchemist, E-Swift, Architect, D-styles etc. etc. just for starters ?
What’s Quiks “Chronic”
“36Chambers”/“OB4QL”
Had no idea Alchemist is a west coast producer
Quik is all of NWA in one
Dr. Dre’s most impactful work is reinterpolations of classic funk music from 20 years prior played out by session players in world class studios, this combined with a penchant for perfectionism is Dr. Dre
Quik is the same but he also writes his own raps
This is different than music producers that are entirely self-contained making music on an MPC.
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
I should clarify. I meant G-Funk as a whole isn’t as gritty and is more smooth.
Didn’t mean to blanket statement the entire west coast.
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
100% agree w/ you
Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
What’s Quiks “Chronic”
"Safe and Sound".
Shame he has only one Instrumental album out (for "Trauma"), because he could make a killing off of doing LoFi/Jazz Hop beats/mixes
Daz has classics but quality fell off a cliff when he started releasing an album every 6-7 months whereas Quik has remained consistent.
I think you’d safely be in the minority comparing the Chronic or OB4CL with Safe + Sound …good album tho …but nikka please
Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
I think you’d safely be in the minority comparing the Chronic or OB4CL with Safe + Sound …good album tho …but nikka please
Couple things hold this album back from being in the discussion:
1) Timing: Quik's previous album came out prior to The Chronic and Safe + Sound came out nearly 3 years after. The direction of what west coast music sounded like changed during that time to say the least
2) Label politics; he and Profile were on the outs after Safe + Sound was released. It's why they dropped one video ("Safe + Sound") and didn't promote "Summer Breeze" heavily (IMO they dropped the ball BIG TIME on this song)
3) The constant falling out/reconciling/falling out again with his crew, though this is something that has plagued him for pretty much his entire career. At we have some classic Quik production from 97-99 while everyone was on the same page.
4. The production isn’t as good as OB4CL (RZA) & Chronic (Dre)
The most strident Quik fan surely understands that this doesn’t belong anywhere near a conversation with those two albums and that’s no disrespect to Quik.. but there’s levels
Personally I rank Quik above Dre
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
"Safe and Sound".
This is a classic track, but isn’t hard on the same level as:
Murder Was the Case
High Powered
What would U do?
Lyrical Gamgbang
Puffin on Blunts/sippin on
Stranded on Death Row
Ambitionz az a Rydah
Natural born Killaz
Real MFin Gz
Alwayz into somethin’
Wut Would You Do (Eazy E)
nikka Wit a Gun
Serial Killa
Pump Pump
Dogg Pound Gangstas
One By One
Etc etc…
Not even close tbh…it sounds cartoonish compared to the above tracks.
Quiks catalogue (imo) lacks to me bc he doesn’t have many of these hard g-funk beats that I look to when I bump west coast ish.
to keep it funky quik was already doin the gfunk sound at 16-17 yrs old before dre even got with hutch cold 187...What’s Quiks “Chronic”
the redtape in 88 was already what dre came n did with the chronic n nikkaz4life...
quik is the name is his nikkaz4life.. then safe n sound is his chronic...
rhythmalism...is his 2001
his 36 chambers/ob4ql = 2nd ii none 1st album and street gospel..