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

[THETRUTHUG]

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

[Episcop Cruel Cvrle]

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

I agree to some point, love the beats you named more then the beats on the BOD, but I think the beats on BOD are still amazing.

[westside159]

you have to be young .  the best hip hop music was recorded in the 90's so whats your point ?  

its better than his last 3 albums

[Mista Rosa]

Yeah I still feel that BOD could have been a lot better. Beats are nothing mindblowing expect a few some, it lacks top guests, hooks are not catchy and sometimes Quik is articulating too much, doesn't fit him.

[Stan]

you have to be young .  the best hip hop music was recorded in the 90's so whats your point ?  

its better than his last 3 albums

I don't think it has anything to do about being young, I think he means it sounds dated (which is what I got).  If this is the case, I agree.  It would have sounded much better if it came out in 97-99 because it fit that era.
And ya, I agree for the most part with the OG post.

[THETRUTHUG]

you have to be young .  the best hip hop music was recorded in the 90's so whats your point ?  

its better than his last 3 albums

I´m 27 and a hip hop fan since the deathrow times, i´m just saying that i loved where quik was gowing with his sound because it was like future westcoast sound, i loved rhytmaslism, maybe quiks best work, and it was the right time for rhytm alsism, but if you drop 2 albums like, trauma and blaqkout where most of them beats where and than drop an album which sounds like it would better fit in 10 years ago

[SouthernG]

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

[LAC/EASTSIDE]

I don't have a problem with the beats really, I just thought the lyrical content was not as good. In Trauma he told stories about his life and it was more interesting. He was more personal with that album. Trauma was better to me. The beats in this album are cool and new but he really didn't impress me with the topics. When I think of "Till Jesus Comes", I remember the beat plus the lyrics. He went personal with his life and lyrics, that made me enjoy the song even more. Some of the songs on TBOD, are just talking about nothing. He still had some cool songs but nothing compared to past albums IMO.

[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.

[Furor Teutonicus]

Hmm I can feel ya. The beats on Trauma were really knocking and sounded modern but at the same time unique and Quik.

But generally I don't have a problem if a musician sticks to his roots, it's not always essential that an artists 'progresses'. I'm glad that a AL Green still makes the same music he did in the 70's. It still works.

But yeah, Quik's direction on Trauma sounded awesome, but I think also the it's mainly a quality issue. Trauma sounded way more polished. I think Blaqout already was a step backwards.

[SouthernG]

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.

LOL that was my first impression too bro, but after a second listen it quickly became my FAVE on the album, maybe it was how hard he spit on the last verse. The track is actually SICk as F*ck to me now !!!!!!!!!!

[IbblesAndBits]

I disagree completely. Trauma sounds much more dated than The Book of David. TBOD has its faults but I think it's a lot clearer and fresher sounding than Trauma, BlaQKout and that Fixxers album, all of which sounded forced on quite a few songs, and Quik's beats didn't come off as natural in my opinion. The beats on TBOD sound a lot more like Quik being comfortable in his own style, which is why I think it's his best album in years.


I think that "Ladies & Thugs" was a good idea, but it ended up sounding like a cheap beat with those strings on it.
"Blaqkout", "Cream N Ya Panties" and "The Appeal" (to me the best 3 songs off BlaQKout) don't sound too much different than the beats on TBOD.

[IbblesAndBits]

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.

[SouthernG]

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.

AMEN brotha

[B.A.]

I agree with the original post but at the same time what's wrong with putting out an album that has that classic/vintage Quik sound? Trauma definitaly had some bangers as did Blaqkout (first half dope, second half was...different) but I like what Quik did here by not continuing to get too experimental and staying in his lane more. It's like a thow back to his old sound that his fans can appreciate. The good thing is that Quik is talented enough to where he can make an album that sounds like the o.p. said "westcoast music for 2012" and then switch it up and make an album that has that old/classic Quik sound but still sound tight, don't know many other artist, if any, that can do that and have great results.

It's kinda funny though, when an artist has been in the game as long as Quik has, his sound evolves and eventually you start hearing people say "I like his old music better" or "he was better when he first came out", etc., etc., then DJ Quik puts out an album that sounds like this and some people say "it sounds dated" or "it would have been better if it had came out years ago"; you can't please everyone. I wish more of the of the older artists that are still in the game would do something similar, because many of them are making music that is so far out there from what made them famous that they would have lost their identity completely if it wasn't for their name still being recognized.

So for me, it's cool to hear Quik come out with an album that sounds like this (it's refreshing even though it does sound like an older record, if that makes any sense) and I'm sure that if Quik decides to put out another album in a few years and make it have an updated 2015 and beyond west coast sound it'll be tight too; he's that good of a producer/musician imo.