DJ Quik : Rolling Stone

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We need something just a little bit different," says DJ Quik at the beginning of his fifth album. It's not an admission you expect from a West Coast gangsta-rap veteran. Yet there's DJ Quik, a one-time Compton Piru Blood, adding disarming wit to his relaxed-as-a-perm colloquial lyricism ("Do Whutcha...

2000 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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As a teenager in the '80s in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, David Blake was a member of the notorious Treetop Piru Bloods street gang. When Blake took a construction job, a coworker introduced him to the delights of that famous hip-hop accessory, the SP-1200 sampler. Blake became DJ Quik and at age 20 he saw his debut album go platinum on the strength of the hit single "Tonite." N.W.A had put ...

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