quik & kurupt - HEY PLAYA!

coulda posted on one of the other threads but

WHY NOT

NOT WHY

Moroccan blues

a suitably exotic sample (taken from an episode of Andrew Zimmerman’s Bizarre Foods)

I love DJ Quik, but Kurupt is still the most talentless mainstream rapper around. Just listen to him on this tune:

Cloud nine
She got two sides like Gemini
I'm high
Living my life, I'm hella high
I'm fine
And it's time
See I'm nothing but a pool[???], I'm cool, I'm coolin'
Doin', whenever I wanna be doin'
You and me
Me and you
And my big homie DJ Quik

And so on... I know it's supposed to be a party tune and not a display of rapping skills, but still, is that all he could come up with?!

Kurupt is still the most talentless mainstream rapper around.

SB

"beautiful"

I love DJ Quik, but Kurupt is still the most talentless mainstream rapper around. Just listen to him on this tune:

this is what happens when and what isn't around to enforce order.

nice tune!

Can't wait to hear this

Tuomas is wrong but kurupt has been hit or miss

Lately

kurupt tends to go on autopilot a lot but calling him untalented is str8 crazy! esp early on he used to drop some fucking amazing verses, at his peak i think he was a great bridge between west coast gangsta and complex lyrical east coast style, like a more gully ras kass or something

Yeah totally otm

it's like him being philly by way of cali was totally apparent in his style

this song is XD

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u know, even though i think i subconsciously only made this thread in the first place to feel the self-lacerating pain of ilm douches getting happy/getting it all wrong (curmudgeon obv STRAIGHT AWAY gettin his dj/rupture global village mode on lol ouch) this is still a fucking lame effort on yalls part!! i mean yeah fine racionate kurupt's position in the rap discourse landscape all you want if it beats back tuomas' truly spectacular challops ("bra-zilliant atmosphere, without a brassiere" i see no problem here dude) but i just thought it would appeal more to not-just-the-usual folks along some universal silly timbo/bubba sparxx 03 throwback glorious mess lines.

song is still dope to me even after writing all that, so it really must be good - get on boarddddd

(i'm joking about curmudgeon btw - was just hilarious to me that it was him of all people, given everything)

kinda think the thing i love most about this is quik in the middle of the westcoast/morroco storm-in-a-teacup seeing fit to go vaguely whodini horrorcore throughout. zombies! vampires! tales from the crypt! "the voice of great antiquity"! so excellent.

i'm sorry i'm not someone else that has different thoughts and opinions?

no man look i'm totally appreciative of what you & deej said here i just find it a bit sad that that's all that became of the thread is all

whatever tho

it is a good song and i'm glad you posted it!

but yeah you're only gonna get the same few dudes on any hip hop thread really

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/kg16EfsPY4hnrnAK

oh fukkkk!!!!

this is killing me. so hard.

top ten rap singles this decade too hyperbolic? right now I feel like when I first heard "Grindin'"

I would say I wish quik rapped on it, but why fuck with what you got when it's this good

I feel like when I first heard "Grindin'"

― yo is it true rev got sbed by a wite kid after a ilx beef?????? (The Reverend), Friday, May 15, 2009 9:03 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cause it sounds just like grindin? sweet beat rapping needs a little pop intensity tho

imo the rapping on this is the shit & this track is one of the best out right now

I love how Kurupt's rap is so structured, but in a v. unorthadox way

This is like top three of the year for me.

"9xs outta 10" has this mean swagger that really only comes when the only thing you have to fall back on is that you know that you are dope as fuck - you know you aren't going to sell, you know critics aren't going to give a fuck, you know nobody is going to care about the video so you don't do shit but just stand there and rap with your boys and yet it's so singular, so confident, so hard, so nasty, like they can't be bothered to care about the viewer and yet it's such a vibrantly grimy video and song - i'm drunk but shit

also the production is saturn's rings bonkers

quik beats make you feel stoned even when you aren't

i want a "I BE IN RARE MOTION" tattoo

people are really trying to fuck with this? shit

FOURTEEN 350s
AROUND THE CLOCK POP AROUND THE BLOCK
AROUND THE WHOLE CIRCUMFERENCE
IN ABUNDANCE FEAR LIKE TED BUNDY

BOUNCE BACK LIKE BUNGEES

THROWN AWAY LIKE SPONGEES

are arabic/rap blends coming back in style again? i sure hope so.

stopwatchhadtoletitwatchclocksflockinginflocksstopjustseeyapopswatchillbetherewhenitSTOPS~

http://i36.tinypic.com/2psnebq.jpg

^^^ great album

terrace martin & kurupt STREETLIGHT lp coming soon too btwwwww

and 4 good measure

Lovin' this as well:

BUT wtf why is Quik wearing a Sydney Swans top in this video????:

I've never really listened to either of these fellas before. Where do I start? (Stuff that's easy to get hold of preferably.)

dammmmn tim this after simey calling the nuum australia too, you must be having a time of it

a hoy, I'll leave the Kurupt recos up to someone who knows better, but as for Quik, start here:

http://eastofla.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dj-quik-rhythm-al-ism.jpg

contains dopeness such as:

"Medley for a "V" (The P***y Medley)" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Hi-C, AMG, 2nd II None & El DeBarge)

^^^not on u-tube but completey essential

http://chronicvacation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kuruptbaconandeggs-300x300.jpg

http://sharebee.com/c41dae4e

^^^just leaked

And to think I was listening to Arcade Fire when I opened this thread :S I really need a proper education on west coast hip-hop, I'm loving everything here. I pretty much got as far as being turned off by 2pac at 13 and never really cared for anything that wasn't a Dre or Snoop album.

rhythmalism is still one of my favorite albums ever made -- burned out for awhile but just played the 'we still party' youtube & its all rushing back

now whether or not i be drunk offa gallon moet
i can still make the beat stink like some salmon croquette
go to the hood & get all the kids that i can fit
in the limo take em to the store and buy em some shit
give em a demo of my new shit cuz its the shit
and let em know that they the shit and they can make hits & it aint shit
i gotta keep the cycle goin
baby doll whichever way the wind blowin im goin

I pretty much got as far as being turned off by 2pac at 13

― a hoy hoy, Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

speaking of pac this is a pretty cool quik remix:
http://www.amazon.com/Loyal-Game-Quik-Remix-Explicit/dp/B001NTSU6I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1243196890&sr=8-1

also

'late nite' is such an underrated track

AMG's verse kills too

lmao when quik hopes her fav condom flavor is 'nutty peppermint'

Can definitely cosign on Rhythm-al-ism - picked that up this year on deej's reco and have been listening to it heaps and heaps.

oops turning this into the letz talk abt dj quik thread

Well ILM needs to be schooled :)

wutz good w. dj quik

kinda like 'bacon & eggs' more than some of these other tracks -- def one of the best kurupt performances here

Jon Caramanica in the Sunday NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/arts/music/24play.html

DJ Quik & Kurupt

“We the West,” scream the T-shirts in the video for “9X Outta 10,” by DJ Quik & Kurupt: a riff on DJ Khaled’s “We the Best” catchphrase but also a statement of presence. After all, the Game notwithstanding, where has Los Angeles hip-hop been for the past decade? But rather than revisit worn-out gangster-rap tropes like the rising rappers Nipsey Hussle, Jay Rock and Clyde Carson, these old-timers — Quik is an underloved G-funk architect and Kurupt a recharged veteran of the early Death Row days — reclaim the scene by looking forward. “9X Outta 10” is a small art piece: cyclical raps by Kurupt, a skeletal, jagged soul arrangement by Quik. It’s one of several vibrant futurist reads on Los Angeles hip-hop on “Blaqkout” (Mad Science/Fontana/Universal), out next month, though the duo is still keeping an eye on those who’ve followed them. “You see me in a sea of people/But I’m not equal,” DJ Quik raps on “Cream.” “I’m the prequel/I’m the subject in the peephole.”

We make it storm
Or make it rain
Make it hurricane
Typhoons
Tycoons
I assume
Delusions
Illusions
Like mushrooms
Get it now or pretty soon
Radiated mushrooms
Radiate entire rooms
Go bananas
Baboons
Just
STOP

Cannonball run em up
Run em up
Runnin up
Summon up
The whole confrontation
Waitin
My patience in achin
I sum it up
Comin up
In such a way
The impatience
Dumb enough to fuck it up
Look
I sum it up
Just
STOP

I BE IN RARE MOTION

haha i love how pretend-experimental his verse is

not sure what i think of that other leaked track tho

lol yeah the badass nonsense of it all only dawned on me once i started typing out, it's great.

...reclaim the scene by looking forward. “9X Outta 10” is a small art piece: cyclical raps by Kurupt, a skeletal, jagged soul arrangement by Quik. It’s one of several vibrant futurist reads...

didnt wanna bring the vybe down earlier but, indubitably dope though it is, i will be real madd if this tune ends up getting all the album shine from undead clipse dickriders.

not to mention antipop consortium, haha

the question is, does the think its better than the asher roth record he was praising a few weeks ago?

clipse fans have the clipse's non existent new album to fret about it, so i wouldnt wory

'whatcha really wanna do': just like with 'hey playa', praise be to quik mastering ladychoruses that make you chuck boring timbaland retro tinged observations out the window. also yknow, good rapps too

the question is, does the think its better than the asher roth record he was praising a few weeks ago?

― autogucci cru (deej), Monday, 25 May 2009 11:00 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

who is 'the'?

already listened to that quik album recommended upthread this morning and really enjoyed it. and now i'm currently listening to 9x out of 10 for the billionth time in a row.

The is he is caramanica

so am i the only person who likes "hey playa" way more than "9x" or what

Kurupt is way better on 9x but I don't think as songs they're that far off

But kurupt is better than either on 'bacon and eggs'

NEW VIDEOOOOOOOOOOO

this is by far my favorite beat for this album yet

fukkin soul 2 soul sample in the chorus lmao

nationality matters / i like them outta towners who come from the copa cabana / this beat is bananas / it hits your antennas / cuz dj quik is more gifted than santa

also can i just say -- some gorgeous ladiez in this video

quik's chick in partic

omg i love this <3

holy shit this album is doooooooope

like, way better than i expected

also, weird as FUKK. wtf is going on is 'exodus' -- & 'jupiter's critic'

what's the release date? i can only really afford to buy 1 album until i get a job sorted, was thinking it would be this.

Tuesday i think

yeah june 9th...downloading this right now

the beat on 'cream n ya panties' is O_O_O_O_O_O

i ... dont know what that face is supposed to mean

"Ohh!" is so fukkin ridic...my favorite part is where Quik says "Sing it!" to the crazy chopped famale vocal sample

album is great so far

'ohh' sounds like prefuse or something

give me patience/ I deal with mental patients/ I see you as a dunce/ but I haven't said it once

I'm the voice of great antiquity, I'll stop you at the gate
and present you with nightmares of all the things you hate

wtf is going on is 'exodus' -- & 'jupiter's critic'

make that thing sing like peabo bryson

wtf is going on is 'exodus'

^^^

what an incredibly good album this is. don't even know where to start!!

i mean every track is making me go !!!! and :DDDD

'watcha wan do' <333

what the hell is quik on about on "hey playa!"? I swear his verses have zilch to do with anything else in the song.. like kurupt gets it, but quik is all like "I'm going to rap about damnation!"

nb: song is prob all the better for this dissonance

other great thing about "hey playa!": what goes with morrocan blues? why of course drunk new orleans horns shit makes perfect sense

WHEN IT STOPS

get your mind in the right position

Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again
Jump, stomp, pump, and reach again

this album is the shit. exceeded all expectations.

had no idea it would sound like this at all.

jupiters>>>>>

quik is a genius.

have ordered my copy, it's not surprising that this is impossible to find around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqzc9IKHLyo

my copy still hasen't come :(

oh btw that new Kurupt EP deej posted about upthread is hte shit

i think this album broke my brain

what the hell kind of music is this??

"I'm in 2022/ 14 years ahead of you" makes me lol because it's so 2000-and-late.

kinda think the thing i love most about this is quik in the middle of the westcoast/morroco storm-in-a-teacup seeing fit to go vaguely whodini horrorcore throughout. zombies! vampires! tales from the crypt! "the voice of great antiquity"! so excellent.

― r|t|c, Friday, April 17, 2009 10:36 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

oh man this is great....the guitar arpeggios on the last verse of "fuck y'all"

Just occurred to me that "Do You Know" samples "Anniversary".

hey there is a cool review of this record on p4k today!

TS: Watcha Wan Do vs. Watcha Wan Do (Alternate Version)

I would do anything to hear E-40 on that beat

that would be sweet, personally i think it begs for a classic luda verse

No reason we couldn't get both.

"Whatcha Wan Do" is prolly my favorite song on the album, haven't listened to it enough to discern between the 2 versions tho

i love the sushi/coochie line on 'watcha wan do'

yeah also echoing everyone on of the o_O and awesome "exodus"

OG "Whatcha Wan Do" for sushi/coochie/quote-unquote bourgie and for bringing back fucking YoYo. I mean... they really did that. It happened. Although "That's her nigger name" is definitely a point in the remix's favor.

finally emusic dling this now

'watcha wan do' is sorta the cheesiest beat to me though. its such a 2000 major label rap record 'album track' beat

love that "wha waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" sound on cream n ya panties

^^^YES -- that beat is incredible, my favorite on the entire record

the way it keeps going off at different tangents

this is one of those albums where while i'm listening to it and every song i'm like "oh this is the awesomest beat on the album" then next song i'm like "oh no way THIS is the best beat on the album"

wooorrrd

btw

NAW DAWG SHE'S AS-SHI-AN

hey there is a cool review of this record on p4k today!

― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

btw thnx bro ^_^

'watcha wan do' is sorta the cheesiest beat to me though. its such a 2000 major label rap record 'album track' beat

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― autogucci cru (deej), Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:08 PM Bookmark

It might be my favorite beat on the album. I love those rising riffs that get overlayed in harmony with the main riff.

yeah seriously! apparently i've been hearding the wrong 2000 major label rap records.

hearing

xxxp np dude! it was a good review--def confirmed my suspicion that i want to pick up this album.

okay, blaqkout is great; cosine on all above raving

daaaaamn ohh!

yeah took me three listens to really like this.
1st - lol wtf
2nd - ok these beats are bananas
3rd - top ten of year

Lolz, keep waiting on Exodus for it to go into the Michigan J. Frog Rag!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGE8wVTvHF0
not a complaint mind you, this is great

2.54 + 4.12 for those of you with deprived childhoods

did u get on a boat w/o a ticket? ME TOO. LET'S KICK IT!

I would be deeply appreciative if somebody could point me (on or off thread) to an instrumental version of this album. GF can't deal with the rapping, though I think she's nuts, but she loves the beats and wants them to run to.

ban forksgf

eh, I could certainly understand having issues with the sexism

yah tru

xp, for some reason she takes offense to extensive "fuck that bitch in the face" diatribes. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image%3AItisamystery.gif

http://sparror.cubecinema.com/beingll/archive/jun06/its_just_a_mystery.jpg

lolz, she saw me posting this and DEMANDED that I clarify that she does NOT have an issue with the lyrical content; it's just she doesn't think Kurupt rides the beat well.
So there's that.

lol forksgf needs her own account

xp, for some reason she takes offense to extensive "fuck that bitch in the face" diatribes.

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:01 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait ... fuck that bitch in the face diatribes? what song is that

i know the parts like 'gossip like a lady but youre the only bitch'

most of whatcha wanna do is not gloria steinem approved
she has her own account she just hardly ever posts

she is also really warming up to this "in spite of the rapping" from repeat play

Got told it's not available in britisher land unless I pay crazy import prices. This is why people love illegal downloading. Gonna check amazon now I guess.

i've heard the whole thing now and the wacky bananas beats make more sense nestled in the flow of the record. you sort of get taught how to listen to the beats, starting with some very satisfying but not particularly challenging back-in-the-day style grooves and gradually the center loses its ability to hold

absolutely loving this smooth summer west coast groove & am v. v. v. grateful to deej for reviewing it (that was you, right?) 'cause I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise

^__^ thnx j0hn

i've heard the whole thing now and the wacky bananas beats make more sense nestled in the flow of the record. you sort of get taught how to listen to the beats, starting with some very satisfying but not particularly challenging back-in-the-day style grooves and gradually the center loses its ability to hold

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:23 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is it exactly

yeah that is otm. the album is sequenced remarkably well

Agreed, there's a seven song run between Ohh! and The Appeal that's as pleasant as anything I've heard in long form release this year.
How's Bees to the Honey? Worth corralling and downloading?

yes

the appeal is my least fav song i think

also ... u guys ... hey play video shoot:

http://twitpic.com/86ag9

*hey playa

But what yall know about ridin camels! step yo game up!

^dj quik otm

the appeal is my least fav song i think

― matt h. (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:44 PM Bookmark

maybe, but still pretty great in its own right. I love how quik's voice first comes in in this really unexpected way, with that wet reverb and then he has a funny-ass conversation with himself, especially the "you can fight the temptation"/"naw dawg she's as-si-an/ and she's finer than lacy stacy or kimmy kardashian" bit

i can't really get with "watcha wanna do", whoever said they'd like to hear e-40 on that beat was dead on though.
Kurupt _does_ get a little hit or miss on this after repeat listening; Quik sounds great throughout.

Cream is fucking dope as hell tho'.

deej what did you say in your review, something like "kurupt tries hard to say nothing in the most complicated way posssible"? or something...anyway that was totally great description of him i thought

cream is my fav by far

"kurupt tries hard to say nothing in the most complicated way posssible"

This only really makes sense talking about "9xs Outta 10" (although could apply just as well to Quik on "Hey Playa!" or "Jupiter's Critic & the Mind of Mars"). The rest of the album Kurupt is a lot more understandable.

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs114.snc1/4839_524412192033_43201281_31246244_1131248_n.jpg
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs114.snc1/4839_524412192033_43201281_31246244_1131248_n.jpg
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs114.snc1/4839_524412192033_43201281_31246244_1131248_n.jpg

(although could apply just as well to Quik on "Hey Playa!" or "Jupiter's Critic & the Mind of Mars"

i disagree w this -- i think its pretty obvious what hes talking about on hey playa. jupiter's critic is a lil more oblique but its still got pretty concrete concepts going on

i.e. 'dropped by the majors,' owing taxes, etc

& about how getting involved in hip hop = lose your lust for sleep

"Ohh!" is my favorite today.

Loving this but the use of "twat" (pronounced with a r) really creeps me out.

i got two friends and they're my nuts/And all my ex-girlfriends hate my guts

you think i give a shhhhhhhit?
MAN UR WRONG

why not
not why

"watcha wan do" is such a great song but yoyo's beat-oblivious verse is terrible and completely inconsequential

MAN UR RONG

there needs to be a kurupt "MAN UR RONG" graemlin

k3vin is the fuckn yo yo with that post

imagine if yo-yo could go that hard for a whole album of quik beats...

http://scavenging.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/fire.jpg

she goes hard has hell but like i said she's completely beat-oblivious and is outclassed so bad by kurupt you wish she wasnt on it imo

there needs to be a kurupt "MAN UR RONG" graemlin

― The Reverend, Monday, June 29, 2009 8:32 PM (1 hour ago)

would bookmark

swag meter up let's flyyyyyyyyYYYYyyyyyy

someone say "me and your pussy were made for each other" IRL and tell us how it goes.

it don't matter if ya got bra and a thong on... only

i'm gonna listen to this song right now

good idea

HIP HOP

is the music of the devil!

i keep waiting for a "DIPSET" yell following the "swagga up let's fLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

how do we ban forks from this thread

oh cmon, it's got the same kinda build to start as crunk muzik

wtf k3vin yoyo has like the best verse on that track ...? & its not beat-oblivious at all

i aint afraid of death
it's not livin that scares me

I love this album.

my favourite moment on the album might be when, after 'exodus' has bounced abstractly hither and thither for three minutes, suddenly BOOM the beat drops for the intense focus of '9xs outta 10'

yessss

I'MMA COME BACK AND SMASH YOUR BIRDCAGE

"jupiter's critic" is like whAAAA???

video for 'hey playa' dropped

camels

called

chris brown and rihanna

"you gotta keep them separated"

that's a great video - a rare club scene which actually conveys how much everyone's enjoying themselves, too

also, camels!!!

dope video imo

YOUR BOYFRIEND'S A FUCKIN HATER

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh OH! OH! OH! OH!

ok so is anything else even remotely coming close to touching this for hip hop album of the year?

watcha really wanna do

whatcha really wanna DOOOOO

i'm gonna come clean and say that i think yall are overrating this album

it's pretty amazing sonically but the rapping is kinda boring - a little too many liberties taken by quik i think. like, being funny & goofy and not caring so much about rhyming & flowing can be cool but i think there needs more verses a la "9xs outta 10" where the verses really make you go O_O in a technically skillful sense

man idunno, name a verse you think is boring. the only song i dont basically love is "the appeal"

xpost

MAN UR RONG

ok so is anything else even remotely coming close to touching this for hip hop album of the year?

― samosa gibreel, Monday, October 5, 2009 12:15 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Raekwon mops the floor with it imo

yeah, 9 times outta 10 is really on some next level shit and it's weird that no other track sounds anything like it. but when i'm listening to the album i can't really be bothered to think about that sorta thing cause it's just such a good time.

yeah i like that raekwon some. thing is the production is wonderful and there are some crazy brilliant verses throughout, but raekwon as a rapper has not aged well imo. not like dude was the most charismatic guy to begin with, but he used to be graceful and sharp nowadays just sounds like he's shlepping himself around. quik and kurupt otoh are still virile as fuck.

I've still not heard the new Raekwon tape but I think the Mos Def comes close. Old rappers > New rappers :(

raekwon alb is totally by #s in comparison imho

i think rae has aged well, & i dont get what a hoy hoy is saying -- who is the 'new rapper' here? but rae's record is totally predictable in comparison to this

a little too many liberties taken by quik i think.

quik's rapping is dope thruout imo

I wasn't trying to start a crazy debate where you lecture everyone about Gucci. Just the three records I am going to love most this year will presumably be made by Raekwon, DJ Quik, Kurupt and Mos Def.

a ho ho ho

^^^pretty good comeback from yr zing if i do say so myself

anywayz man after getting pretty much entirely tired of talking about gucci it feels really great to come back to this LP ... i think one good thing abt feeling like gucci & related rappers are a 'center' around which the rest of the genre rotates is that records like this feel like they are kinda perfectly rated, neither under- nor clipse'd

The 2009 Magazine Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion.

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u_u

my paper put out its top 10 this week and we voted BlaQKout to #3: http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=19445

This will absolutely be in my top ten.

and you p+j folks better make sure this is in yours cuz why not not why

i never twigged that shipley and matos worked on the same paper til now, for some reason.

i voted for it in the guardian poll, hope it gets...at least one other vote :/

def in my top 10

my #1 easy

can't see past the-dream for no.1 : /

well it's my local paper and main outlet and Matos is one of the non-local freelancers (although he's written for it much longer). Jess used to be our music editor!

the-dream and q&k ended up being my 3 and 4 (can't remember which order i went with) after electrik red and taylor swift

i had Electrik Red and Quik trading places for #1 and #2 on my list for a few months before ER won out with a much higher iTunes play count

people forgetting UGK is depressing me

i haven't forgotten ugk! it'll make my top 20, maybe top 10

yeah it's more top 20 material than top 10 material for me too

quik & kurupt 2, ugk somewhere 9-11

i think my paper has this as #1 hip-hop album but then again i'm the only one there who writes about hip hop so

Yes, this is one of those rare pop records--and even rarer indie-pop records--where the "girl" mentioned in the lyrics could as easily be a daughter as a girlfriend.

lol for most pop records this would be...a problem

Top five for me. I dunno why I took so long to come around. "The Appeal" floors me.

have you floppin all around like a goldfish

G. to a tee
original like E.T.
chocolate thai and indo weed
you know it's me
D.P.G.

and it's me, Mr. Blake
with the cake that's
cheesy

let's go

drop it

cream in ya panties hands in the air all night baby pop that twat

I will give you writer's block if you abandon me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4mUkr8oNfU

for those who don't read fruity swag --

new quik prod. track with rapping by suga free

http://usershare.net/50we5qg9qjoy

supposedly off a new quik album called 'the book of david'

& it is AMAZING

and not saying/just saying but this disgusting breakdown at the end sounds like some purple-ass joker shit tbqh

EVERYONE WAKE UP AND LISTEN TO THIS JOINT PLEASE

dope

slammin

instant reaction after one listen to this track more !!!!!!!!! than i remember for anything off blaqkout.

oh yeah, spring is here!

<3

Good tune.

good call on the joker sound; this is dope as fuck

:)

dj quik i hope you stay crazy forever

love this, imo not better than everything on blaqkout or whatever (never mind quik&sf classixx like "thinkin" or "if u stay ready" or "inside out" but pretty sweeeet. great 2 hear quik & sf back together

plz no more comparisons to 'arty' uk music just bcuz he slows down the tempo, tho

don't tell me nothing, michael jackson's dead

i like this better than a lot of shit on blaqkout but then again i didn't dig that as much as the rest of you guys

blaqkout was much more of a break w/ the sound of classic quik, this sounds like a fresh but not altogether unique variation on the kind of stuff hes been doing since the late 90s

i mean that in a broad sense, not in the premier-style bangers inc. sense

still great tho

that's prob why i like it better

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Streetlights.jpg

April 20th

1. "Intro"
2. "I'm Burnt" (featuring Problem) Terrace Martin 3:17
3. "Questions"
4. "In Gotti We Trust" (featuring Xzibit)
5. "Face Down"
6. "Blame it on U" (featuring Rell)
7. "Yessir" Pete Rock 4:27
8. "All That I Want" (featuring Snoop Dogg)
9. "I'm Drunk"
10. "Scrape"
11. "Riot In The Club" 4:24
12. "I'm The Man"
13. "I'm Burnt (Remix)" (featuring Roscoe, Problem & Snoop Dogg) Terrace Martin
14. "Street Lights"
15. "Bounce, Rock, Skate (Bonus)" (featuring DJ Quik, Terrace Martin & Snoop Dogg) DJ Quik & Terrace Martin 3:25

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Streetlights.jpg

4-20 obv

interesting -- "i'm burnt" was pretty wack -- too bad "murder fitness" isn't on there

you are pretty wack

'yessir' & 'bounce rock skate' are pretty old

oh c'mon -- "i'm burnt" had one quik verse & it was like 4/10 -- the fuck outta here

er, one kurupt verse obv

It's not an all-time classic or anything but solid 7/10. I've gotten some burn from it (no pun). Then again I'm a total sucker for big drum vs small production nu-west shit. And Problem holds his own just fine. Love the hook tho.

this is one of those things, you put it together you make gumbo IMO

first sunny day in like a week, there's only one album to soundtrack it!

YOU'RE A SCOUNDREL
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT WE AVOID
SO GET BACK THE PARTY
AND DON'T BE SO PARANOID

^^i think the dude has a right to be a little paranoid imo

now get'em

i gottem

Watcha Wan Do beat is sick

some hip hop dudes i know around here are saps!
tried to put them on to this and they looked at me like o_0
Wtf?

ALL NIGHT BABY POP THAT TWAT

ohh! is absolutely sick

still a great album to crank

is anything else by dj quik as good as this album?

Its like his 5th best album.

wutz good w. dj quik

yeah loads. try this sampler (&thread) wutz good w. dj quik or start with rhythm-al-ism

haha nice post spottie

Thanks pal.

rhythmalism, book of david, unda the influences, balances and options and quik is the name are all great
i'm late to trying way 2 fonky and will be making that a project soon

Id check up on Trauma before Way 2 Fonky, and I'd check out Street Gospel by Suga Free before either.

And Safe & Sound! I shouldn't answer these kind of things cos I get all emotional and just end up like GET IT ALL MAN JUST DO IT.

But for real.

i love blaqkout and book of david to death and yet STILL haven't bothered going through quik's back catalogue. really must do that.

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

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/kg16EfsPY4hnrnAK

oh fukkkk!!!!

― autogucci cru (deej), Friday, May 15, 2009 11:55 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is killing me. so hard.

― I wanna be your toy boy (a hoy hoy), Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:40 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

top ten rap singles this decade too hyperbolic? right now I feel like when I first heard "Grindin'"

― yo is it true rev got sbed by a wite kid after a ilx beef?????? (The Reverend), Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:03 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

which track where they talkin about

rev was talking abt 9x outta 10

maybe my 5th fav track on the album tbh

Prego otm, that jam is a jam.

rip onsmash :(

this shit still bangz so hard

this album is still the best thing to listen to during the summer by an order of magnitude or two

it made my day when i put the disc back in car rotation a few months ago, definitely need to do that again now that it's warm out

think this is favorite album of the last 5 years or so

it's on the list.

wow it's been 5 years now

HIP-HOP *clap* is the music of the devil

i love this! Thanks for reminding me about it

Gargantuan, cannon cocker BLAKA BLAKA BLAKA

Love when Quik comes in on 9x Outta 10 matching Kurupt for 1.5 bars of his 3.5.

Or make it rain, make it hurricane
Typhoons, Tycoons
I assume delusions, illusions
Like mushrooms, get it now or pretty soon
Irradiated mushrooms

Irradiate entire rooms
Go bananas, baboons, just (STOP!)

HIP-HOP *clap* is the music of the devil

― The Reverend, Monday, June 23, 2014 1:31 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks for reminding me I own this awesome album.

that's when i start acting quote-unquote bougie

'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.

This should have been on the 00’s list for sure