DJ Quik's Former Manager Stan Sheppard Talks: DJ Quik, New Label & Projects

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

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Dubcnn linked up with industry veteran Stan Sheppard, who most of you should recognize as DJ Quik's former manager with his Sheppard Lane label. However, there might be a lot that you don't know about Stan Sheppard yet!

In this exclusive interview, he tells us about his 35 years in the music industry, starting off with the Jackson Family and Motown, to later making the transition over to Rap Music, through DJ Battlecat and DJ Quik. He tells us about his time with Quik, what went wrong, and where he would have liked to take Quik's career if things had worked out.

Throughout the years, Stan Sheppard has collected over 10 Platinum and Gold plaques and is still hungry for more. He's formed a new label called Peaceful/Tonestruck Ent and is currently working on two big projects: "Bangin': Pain, Pride & Destruction", which will raise funds for the Unity One foundation, and the "Dr. Martin Luther King Duets Album", for which he got the legendary Sly Stone to come out of retirement and record a new song with Snoop Dogg. Stan Sheppard is also putting out Battlecat's upcoming album, as well as 'Cat's artist Glocc Sinatra.

To read this exclusive interview, click below:

Exclusive Interview With Stan Sheppard (November '08)

Be on the look out for the "Bangin': Pain, Pride & Destruction" compilation, which will feature new and exclusive music by Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Lil Wayne, Akon, Kurupt, DJ Battlecat, Filthy Frank, Kay9ine, Big Unc, Glocc Sinatra, Hot Box, Seven, Tha Sire, TQ, Tha Candyhouze Fam and G-Sleep. Dubcnn will have some preview tracks off the project for you in near future, so stay tuned!

[~Lucien~]

Great interview. He sounds like a wise man. Thanks!

[Matty]

good read some quality insight into quik's career in the industry

[Klue]

really good read.

[Chief]

i agree with him, quik has wasted quite a few beats on wack artists. just recently i heard a dope beat but some wack rhymin on it

[Rud]

Thanks for the feedback so far! 150 views and only four comments is poor though! Step it up Dubcc!

[Elano]

Thanks for the feedback so far! 150 views and only four comments is poor though! Step it up Dubcc!

maybe because nobody cares about a manager.
the interview is cool and all but....^

[Rud]

150 people cared enough to check the thread!

[kuruptDPG]

cheers. gd read. hope his album would be good

[Furor Teutonicus]

really interesting read, he gives a good insight into the music industry and the labels.
Well, this article makes it look like Quik refused the money in order to stay real. I got great respect for  that he pushed and helped all his homies with his productions instead of making money with big mainstream artists. This shows that Quik is one of the few who stayed modest and is not a greedy sellout like 90% of the people. Still you could argue Quik wasted his talent in some regards especially if you compare him with Dre, but for the fans only the music counts and when you see his discog no1 can say he wasted his talent. Sometimes luck or destiny decides such things, who knows what  would've happened if Mausberg was alive etc.
If other people don't acknoledge because they're not ready/able to look behind their small MTV world, it's their problem and not Quiks.

[Lord Funk]

What's most interesting to me is that this guy looked after Quik's career when, IMO, Quik was making the best, most varied and innovative music of his career. Coincidence?

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

What's most interesting to me is that this guy looked after Quik's career when, IMO, Quik was making the best, most varied and innovative music of his career. Coincidence?

Exactly what I thought when I was speaking to him.

[Brazemac]

great interview

[es-jay]

very good read. thanks for posting.

[F-cisco]

He sounds very honest. But you never know, there's always two sides to every story.