DJ Quik took a huge step backwards with The Book of David

[DSOD2476]

Its just one of those things where everybody has different taste, i really like the album, not all of it but its a solid album. My fave is fire and brimstone

I honestly have to ask how you can even stand fire and brimstone?  I love the keys but that drum programming is so bootsy....it sounds like a bunch of kids playing with pots and pans.  You can't even bob your head to the song and the thing that is frustrating is that track could have sounded like vintage Quik.

You serious? The drums on Fire & Brimstone are fucking dope! I think I bob my head the hardest to that one. The entire song reminds me of "Safe & Sound" Quik

That song reminds me of vintage Quik (Safe and Sound) except for the drum pattern.  Sorry I can't get down to that out of place drum pattern with no rhythm or synchronization to the speed of the keys, rhymes, and strings.  

[B.A.]

Its just one of those things where everybody has different taste, i really like the album, not all of it but its a solid album. My fave is fire and brimstone

I honestly have to ask how you can even stand fire and brimstone?  I love the keys but that drum programming is so bootsy....it sounds like a bunch of kids playing with pots and pans.  You can't even bob your head to the song and the thing that is frustrating is that track could have sounded like vintage Quik.

You serious? The drums on Fire & Brimstone are fucking dope! I think I bob my head the hardest to that one. The entire song reminds me of "Safe & Sound" Quik

That song reminds me of vintage Quik (Safe and Sound) except for the drum pattern.  Sorry I can't get down to that out of place drum pattern with no rhythm or synchronization to the speed of the keys, rhymes, and strings.  

Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about the drums on "Fire & Brimstone". I just can't get to those drums being so out of place and then, to make things more fucked up,the fact that they are loud as hell makes the odd/awkward drum patten stand out big time. But I'm glad that a lot of people do like that song as much as they do because if everyone wasn't feeling it then it would just be straight up whack song. On a side note, I would love to see someone bob their head hard as fuck to that song, it would look so off beat the shit would crack me up (that's not aimed at you at all IbblesAndBits, I'm not trying to clown or talk shit to you, I just pictured someone doing that and it made me laugh).

[IbblesAndBits]

The drums don't sound out of place at all to me, and it's definitely on beat with the rest of the song but it's not a normal drum beat. Honestly the drums are a big part of the reason I enjoy this song. Guess we all hear things differently.


And yeah I bobbed my head to this and was perfectly on beat lol.

[BiggBoogaBiff]

DJ Quik fell off after "Safe N Sound" which is EASILY his best album...  
his die hard fans like Matty won't give it to him becuz it's cliche' to say that anything created in 1995/90's was better than anything after (especially 93/94/95/96)


"rhythmalism" is extremely overrated

"under tha influence" was ok

"balance and options" was cool back in tha day and some of the tunes still play in my head from time 2 time like "pitch in on a party" is right now

"trauma" didn't have a center to it and it lacked a direction and it showed, it was corny to me even tho i have 2 admit i haven't listened to it since it first came out but i remember deleting it (most of it) about a month and a half into it (becuz i try 2 get into some records like that, not all but some, it was y'all fault really)

"book of david" should of been an EP or just 10 tracks with "Fresher Than Me" on it



DJ Quik the PRODUCER >>>>>>>>>>>>>> DJ Quik the M.C.

[B.A.]

DJ Quik fell off after "Safe N Sound" which is EASILY his best album...  

I would definitaly not say he fell off, not by a long shot, but "Safe + Sound" is the only one of Quik's albums where there isn't a single song that i would leave off or change, to me it's perfect and would be insanely hard to top. This is why all of his other albums, although very, very good, always fall a little short for me (some more than others); he was just that good on "Safe + Sound" but that's not a bad thing at all.

[BiggBoogaBiff]

he was just that good on "Safe + Sound"

[papa-smurf]

book of david is my type of album.i bought 2 copies of the album.2 be honest with u.I dont like osng u listed.they cool.but they not songz i listened 2 more then 3 times.blaqout song is cool.the  songs on book of david shit on all of them songs u named.this new album is the reason why quik was one of my favorite artist.then 2 me he kinda fell off.now with this album he back at one of my favorite artist

[papa-smurf]

Am i the only one who thinks this?

Before you call me a hater etc.. I´m a huge Quik Fan (my sig prooves it ) ANd before you start with "thats grown folks music" bla bla bla

for real,

look where quik was going with his beats 

till jesus comes

ladies & thugs

Cream N Ya Panties 

blaqkout

and a few more beats from trauma, and blaqkout.. the beats are so dope and like westcoast music for 2012!

i´m not saying the book of david is a bad album.. but it sounds like it was recorded in 1999 or something, every quik album is dope, but this sounds like an unreleased album from 1999, there like only 3-4 beats which are dope, and the album has 16 tracks

do u seriously think those beats & songs u named is better the so compton or do today &  etc

[IbblesAndBits]

I like Quik's new album over Trauma but I must say that "Til Jesus Comes" is one of his dopest songs ever.

[Macdaddy_93]

And yeah I bobbed my head to this and was perfectly on beat lol.

Same here, i like the offkey sounding beat.

[LDV]

I think The Book Of David intro is great. Just great...

[quiksta80]

I don't think TBOD sounds dated. To me i think the only problem is that many of these rap artists from the 90's are past their prime. We will never get albums filled with straight heaters from dre, snoop, quik or the dogg pound....they will continue to put out albums that have good songs on them...but most of the new songs only go as far as good to me not great.

[KC-HOODSTA]

Man quik hasnt made a great album since balance and options. Seriously he continously dissappoints with every album.

Now leave me alone as i bump my tyga real westcoast shit :p

[Matty]

still lots of polarized views on this album, which is pleasing. gathering up some good thoughts for a review

[Stan]

still lots of polarized views on this album, which is pleasing. gathering up some good thoughts for a review

I have a feeling your going to review DJ Quik 4.5 based on all your posts.  Let's look at some pro reviews:
Dj Booth- 3.5/5:
http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/dj-quik-book-of-david-04181101/
Spin- 7/10
http://www.spin.com/reviews/dj-quik-book-david-mad-sciencefontana

There are other reviews out there but they aren't rated.