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DJ Quik -  "Under The Influence"

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Murrow:
Hoping to catch some of that energy tonight is Amir, a fresh faced Persian-American MC (yeah, that’s right) with tatoos in Arabic on his arms. Amir has wisely sought the talents of one of hip-hop’s most consistent and innovative beatmakers for a track on his debut. DJ Quik is taking a break from mixing down the freshman’s song to check the text messages on his 2-way pager. The alert goes off to the tune of “Trouble,” the first single from Quik’s sixth and latest album, Under the Influence. It took him three hours to program the 2-way tune (complete with a vibrator bassline.) When did he find the time?
On Under the Influence, DJ Quik continues to try his best to be on some “no more drama” shit. “Would you rather be in these streets scrapping and shooting with these niggas,” he asks on songtitleTK. “Or somewhere with a blunt in your mouth getting your dick sucked by a bad ass bitch?”

That seems like a pretty easy question.

“The new album is me going where I’ve never gone before,” says Quik, sipping his cocktail. “Musically and lyrically. It’s me being a rapper finally instead of just bullshitting on tracks and not being sure if people would like it or not. Like, when I was signed to fuckin’ Profile and Arista, I didn’t really have no confidence because they would never pay me. It’s like, just pay the man and let the man go in there and do what he gotta do or let him go. With this record, there’s a whole lot of confidence. I know I’m spitting some shit. And I ain’t on no ego shit, because I really look at myself as a producer first, rapper maybe third or fourth. Because I like playing music. But at the same time, I paid the exact same amount of attention to every aspect of this album—lyrics, music, guest artists. It was really meticulous, more than any other album I’ve ever done.”

It’s also his least “West Coast sounding” album ever. You know we live in a new and different world when super-lyrical East Coast cats like Pharoahe Monch and Talib Kweli show up on a DJ Quik album.

“The new album is not territorial and I purposely made it that way,” says Quik. “I would want someone in Duluth or Fargo, North Dakota, to listen to this record and say, ‘Hey, this is good music.’ Everybody can’t relate to gangbanging. Everybody can’t relate to the way Ecstacy feels, because everybody don’t do weird drugs. So I didn’t make no record with no references to dumb shit. There’s no gangbanging. Again. And I think you can be strong and hard without gangbanging, because if you a real gangbanger—if you lived through the bullshit—you become a general. I was always a street lieutenant, and now I’m a general. I moved up in rank. I got stars and stripes now, purple hearts and shit for saving muthafuckas. So give me my stripes, man.”

And since you know he ain’t ashamed, and you know he ain’t bashful, go on and pop the bottle so he can pour him a glassful.



PULL QUOTES
“All the shit I’ve been holding onto, all the hot beats I never wanted to sell for ten or twenty thousand dollars a piece just to make some money, all them timeless beats that I kept buried away in the archives—I shitted on this album with all of them. I smeared them all over the CD.”



“It’s funny, I was saying this while he was alive, but now, after he’s dead, [I can still say] Mausberg was the greatest rapper. Mausberg didn’t get a chance to show the whole world what he knew. His music’s gonna live forever and it’s going to be limited to those that really look for him.”



“The new album is me going where I’ve never gone before. Musically and lyrically. It’s me being a rapper finally instead of just bullshitting on tracks and not being sure if people would like it or not.”


 
 
 

Techniq:
Been waitin' Quik 2 drop sum new shit 4 awhile... n that song Trouble iz dope as fucc! I wanna git tha dirty version of that, any1 got it?

=[Euthanasia]=:

--- Quote ---Sup pimps and players, here's the official tracklist. Ya heard it here first (unless you saw it somewhere else hehe)

Proem  
Trouble  
Come 2 Nite  
Put It On Me  
Murda 1 Case  
Ev'ryday  
Get Loaded  
Gina Statuatorre  
50 Ways  
Quik's Groove  
Get Tha Money  
One On 1  
Sex Crimey  
Birdz & Da Beez
Better Neva Than Late - (hidden track)
Chopin Groove - (hidden track)
Well - (hidden track)  

--- End quote ---


Props to Big Loco for this  ;D

Tito:
I doubt this will be the final and official tracklisting  ::)

gFuNkA:
ORDER HERE:

http://www.cdnow.com/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/discography.html/ArtistID=DJ+QUIK/from=sr-8974302-1

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