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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 Want"); reveling in warm, bounce-heavy vibes instead of the mechanical syncopation of his peers (the house-tempo "Sexuality"); and shunning the minimal sampling of his early albums in favor of soulfully swollen keyboard riffs and rolling bass lines (which Quik plays himself). There's still a dose of deference to the old school in Quik's funk -- nods to Eazy-E, the Boogie Boys and Roger Troutman -- but Balance and Options could be the most unexpectedly progressive hip-hop album of the year. (RS 842)
JOSEPH PATEL
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Track List
- Change Da Game - (featuring Mausberg/James Debarge/Will Hudspeth)
- Did Y'all Feel Dat? - (featuring Skaboobie/Mausberg)
- We Came 2 Play - (featuring AMG/James Debarge)
- Pitch In Ona Party
- I Don't Wanna Party Wit U
- Motex Records I (Interlude)
- Sexuality
- U Ain't Fresh! - (featuring Erick Sermon/Kam)
- Roger's Groove
- Motex Records II (Interlude)
- Quikker Said Than Dunn
- Straight From The Streets (Interlude)
- Speak On It - (featuring Mausberg/AMG)
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Do Whutcha Want - (featuring Digital Underground/AMG) (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Well - (featuring Mausberg/Raphael Saadiq)
- Quik's Groove V
- Do I Love Her? - (featuring Suga Free)
- Tha Divorce Song - (featuring James Debarge)
- Balance & Options - (Outro)
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