Here is the official press release for the highly anticipated collabo album "Blaqkout" by DJ Quik and Kurupt:
Multi-platinum producer & recording artist DJ Quik, and Dogg Pound affiliate & gangster rapper extraordinaire Kurupt are two of the best-known West Coast representatives in Rap & Hip Hop, period. The pair have teamed up to create a cutting-edge sound on Blaqkout, a full-length collaboration album conceptualized during Snoop Doggs Ego Trippin recording sessions and masterminded by DJ Quik.
Kurupt does in rap what I do in music, DJ Quik says. It just made sense. Kurupt is a gangster rapper in the sense of being raw, bare-bones and uncut. I wanted to do music that evoked certain feelings and could show his microphone superiority.
A prime example of the duos explosive chemistry is 9 Times Out Of 10. Over a heavy drum assemblage, Kurupt freaks an intricate rhyme pattern about the likelihood of things happening over and over again. Blaqkout, is a masterful musical moment where Kurupts brutal lyricism matches Quiks energetic creation. The Blaqkout cut is the epitome of Southern Cali rider music that brings a Sunday on Crenshaw Blvd. vibe to mind.
But the track Hey Playa (Moroccan Blues) is the gem in Quiks production crown he found the sample & inspiration for this track while watching the Morocco episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern on TV. Its this type of sonic bliss that made the partnership between DJ Quik — a platinum solo artist and producer of Jay-Z, 2Pac, AMG and others — and Kurupt — the standout lyricist of Death Row Records, a double platinum member of Tha Dogg Pound and a ferocious freestyle MC — so significant.
Blaqkout will be in stores June 9, 2009.