He has a couple of scratch articlesOne of the most technical articles I've read about Hip Hop was a Scratch Magazine interview of DJ Quik.
Forgot about that one...I like the song he produced for Stalley ft Scarface "Spaceships and Woodgrain" that was for a mixtape. Insane.
This one of Quik's hardest beats imo
I gave the overall gist of why Quik career is the way it is...
I'm fan but I kno that muhfukkas ain't wrapped too tight
N prolly out of all the legendary west rappers...he might be the only 1.that has caught more than one body...that's y he never spoke slaying...on wax...out of all the names monster kody n other legendary street nikkas out west ....speAK on Quik is always either the 3rd or 5th name....because fukked he is...n how his sisters treated him like cinderfella
Its crazy the DJ Quik slander in here
The El rey incident...shyt happen...n it just became Halloween havoc... crips bloods goin at it..n jelly got stompedMight? lol He talks on both G-shyt and "Til Jesus Comes" that he opened fire on nikkas who tried to step to him, but from what he describes on those records, it sounded like a self defense type situation. Then there's the little 5 year old boy he accidentally hit and killed, and then the rollin 6-s dude who was killed at that death row party. Dude has a few bodies on him. More than one, but likely less than 5. Whether ya'll believe in the metaphysical or not, your shyt always catches up with you, and Quiks karmic debts have been coming full circle for the last 25+ years.You can't tell me his constant strings of bad luck, deaths, and poor misfortune wasn't no higher level, universal law type shyt.
And about the whole rollin 60's dude getting stomped to death, what's the real truth behind that incident? Every source I read always says something different.
Was the worst '90s rapper I could think of. Still made some fire though his producers hooked him up with some of the goat g-funk beats
Quik never evolved out of the westcoast funk sound...I love that sound as a matter of fact...but I think that stagnated him once people started wanted something different (Organized Noise, Timbo, Pharrell ect)
One of my fave Quik tracks(perhaps my fave):
Awesome how a Piru gfunk rapper from Compton was able to transition production-wise into a jazz sound. Amazing....