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Matty's Blaqkout Review

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you gon always be my latin queen bitch:
cool jus a bad album for me cept for maybe 2 traxx but hey playa is on another planet as far as dopeness and is better than the whole album

Get It Off Ya Chest:
Matty, you praise Quik's production quite a bit.. you think this is his best work production-wise so far?

Matty:

--- Quote from: Get It Off Ya Chest on April 12, 2010, 04:58:51 PM ---Matty, you praise Quik's production quite a bit.. you think this is his best work production-wise so far?

--- End quote ---

on the whole, nah. but particular tracks (like hey playa) are among his very, very best production work.

4 of the tracks and my most preferred musical directions - 'cream n ya panties, fuck y'all, hey playa, the appeal' are sonically way, way out there. its a new level of clarity, much more so than trauma. his sound has certainly changed/progressed with all the pro-tools gadgets and equipment available these days. but quik has been making sonically outstanding records his whole career, so its extra hard to argue if one iteration of his sound is necessarily better than another.

i think his new album is gonna be real interesting...

you gon always be my latin queen bitch:
what about put it on me....I think he had alot of input on that song...but this album is really not good and its crazy cuz hey playa is so dope...but its years ahead of the album fareal
put it on me is crazy...thats some dretox shhhh right there

Digital Pimpin':
Too lean for a detailed review...quick track by track:

1. BlaQKout - Good intro to the album, reminds me a bit of Press Play for some reason, but I tend to skip this one. 7/10

2. Cream N Ya Panties - Funky shit, up there with Quik's best. Guitars and bass are off the hook (Rob Bacon?). Good interplay on the rhymes. 9/10

3. Do You Know - Sounds real fresh and clear. Be good be hear some more of this style. 8/10

4. What U Wan Do - Crap. 2/10

5. Ohh! - This has grown on me but it's still Quik doing Soulja Boy. Like his flow on here tho so I give it a 7/10

6. Fuck Y'all - More sick guitars especially the switch up at the end. 8/10

7. Hey Playa - Loved it at first, but it hasn't stood up over time. The chorus is too noisy and crowded. 6/10

8. Exodus - More sick guitar but this time on a driving reggae beat and it works very well. But why is Kurupt leading an aerobics class over it? 8/10
                (Shoulda been Bombudd III or preferably a Quik's Groove)

9. 9X's Outta 10 - Pretty dope, reminds me of Clipse Grindin'. 09 Kurupt can't carry the whole track tho. 7/10

10. Jupiter's whatever - Experimental but not my cup of tea. Would work well with a UK grime artist, but I hate that shit so 3/10

11. The Appeal - Yep, more sick guitar use. The whole track is dope tho, bit like a 2009 Quik's Groove II. 9/10

12. Skit - Whatever.

13. There was no need to put this twice on a 45 min album!

14. Bonus track - Fixxers leftover? Not that bad tho. 6/10


The album overall seems like a sampler of new styles Quik is working on. The raps are pedestrian with the occasional highlight. The instrumentals are mixed expertly (except 1 or 2), so the album sounds real big, crisp and clear, on a par with Relapse I reckon. There are 5 or 6 decent tracks but the bad ones are really, really shit.

7/10

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