1993-1997 - DJ Quik more intriguing and dope period of his career

[Mr. Theo]

These years are the most dark period, strange stories, dope music, fights, deaths, discoveries .

Check:

1993

- DJ Quik beefs w/ AMG. The Motive? Unclear

- Quik becomes Death Row "unofficial" member . Suge Knight friendship keeps stronger

- DJ Quik and 2nd II None start the recording of "Tha Shit"

- DJ Quik produced some tracks for Hi-C ( I Wanna See released in 2003 ) the rest is unreleased until today

1994


- Quik beef w/ MC Eiht reach the dangerous status

- Dollaz + Sense is released on Murda Was The Case OST

- The final of "Tha Shit" recording

- The Danny Boy album sessions on Death Row

- 2nd II None "Didn't Mean To Turn You On" released on Above The Rim OST

- Safe+Sound sessions

- The First "92.3 Theo Afternoon Drive Drop"

1995

- Dollaz and Sense at Source Awards

- The kid killed by car incident in Hawthorne

- The El Rey theater incident, resulting on Rollin 60's member murder

- Safe+Sound release, and videoclip release

- Murder of Jake Robles "Big Jake" "Jake The Violator" member of Campanella Bloods and DJ Quik manager at the time

1996

- Meeting 2pac

- The 2pac sessions

- Mixing "All Eyez On Me"

- "Let's Get Down" recording session

- Darryl "Top Dog" Cortez Reed murder by Quik's nephew

- Back on good terms w/ AMG

- Meeting Suga Free for the first time

- Suga Free "Street Gospel" sessions on San Bernardino and Compton

1997

- Suga Free "Street Gospel" release

- Bring El Debarge back to the music

- The epic 92.3 The Beat Summer Jam 97 concert

- Rhythm-al-ism ( The Masterpiece ) start sessions .



These was the years!!! DJ Quik life at finest .
History of West Coast Music

[polepositon]

1993-i love the I wanna see. beat goes hard.
-whats the shit?

1994- How did it get dangerous? like, what happened? that little brown bucket story?
-rem the release of the track. everyone was talking bout it.
-never heard any of the danny boy tracks.
-didnt mean to turn you on. beat goes hard.
-YAY to safe and sound. love the album. love the cover. played that album to death.

1995-not hip to the source awards dollar and sense.
- what kid? what happened?
-what el rey incident? what happened?
-rem the big jake obituary pamplet type thing. a pic of him sorta like in the sky if im not mistaken. i didnt knwo the guy. didnt go to any funeral. but, this big sorta light skinned guy that went by Tiny i think, was seeing my cousin. he brought it over. i was baby. so, my cousin just was like guess who he works with..im all who, shes all dj quik...she knew i would go nuts. if he was telling the truth.

1996- 1997: i still to this day have not listend to the rhythmalism album as a whole. and i see alot of people on here say it was his best album in their opinion.

[makaveliapostle]

nice little timeline.

 Darryl "Top Dog" Cortez Reed murder by Quik's nephew.  never knew this.  i knew quik was always affected by his death, but didn't know one of his family members was the murderer.  any articles on this?

[Mr. Theo]

nice little timeline.

 Darryl "Top Dog" Cortez Reed murder by Quik's nephew.  never knew this.  i knew quik was always affected by his death, but didn't know one of his family members was the murderer.  any articles on this?

My Bad !! Darryl Cortez Reed was murdered in January 98' .

Quik nephew Thaddeus Davis murdered him after a discussion . Thaddeus was on METH.

Read : http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433464/dj-quiks-assistant-killed-rappers-home.jhtml


CURIOSITY : there's no pictures of Top Dog on the net

But, look at "Tonite" video..he is the guy with a NIKE coat playing craps on the table.!!

[Mr. Theo]

1993-i love the I wanna see. beat goes hard.
-whats the shit?

1994- How did it get dangerous? like, what happened? that little brown bucket story?
-rem the release of the track. everyone was talking bout it.
-never heard any of the danny boy tracks.
-didnt mean to turn you on. beat goes hard.
-YAY to safe and sound. love the album. love the cover. played that album to death.

1995-not hip to the source awards dollar and sense.
- what kid? what happened?
-what el rey incident? what happened?
-rem the big jake obituary pamplet type thing. a pic of him sorta like in the sky if im not mistaken. i didnt knwo the guy. didnt go to any funeral. but, this big sorta light skinned guy that went by Tiny i think, was seeing my cousin. he brought it over. i was baby. so, my cousin just was like guess who he works with..im all who, shes all dj quik...she knew i would go nuts. if he was telling the truth.

1996- 1997: i still to this day have not listend to the rhythmalism album as a whole. and i see alot of people on here say it was his best album in their opinion.

"Tha Shit" is the unreleased album of 2ND II None..is this Safe+Sound quality of production!! They bootleg this in 2008!! Google It!! Is Classic

The beef w/ MC Eiht take to the Compton streets, its serious .

Danny Boy album .. "It's All About Time" released in 2010 . Quik destroys on the production..

The Kid Incident? Look:  http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-28/local/me-36972_1_hawthorne-police

EL Rey incident was the murder of a guy, Rolling 60's Crips affiliated . This is a Death Row party, and some Crips attended to the show, and insulted Quik ( Because EIHT beef ), and the TTP'S  of Quik entourage beat-to-death one of the guys.

The Police has a dossier claiming Quik,Hi-C,Zeek and Donzelly RU were responsible for the death.

Obviously Suge Knight has a way to rid them of the charges, with his contacts .

[MOBNigga06]

Yo, Mr. Theo, you are seriously the man, I think you might be the most learned fan of DJ Quik on the planet. How do you know so much about him?

1993-97 were chaotic years for Quik. I remember in an interview he said he woke up one day and was like "Damn, it's 1998, and I'm alive!" As for the varying quality of his music, I think Quik has made extremely high quality tracks in ever year he's been active. 93-97 were great years, and the quality dips a bit in the early 2000s. But I think he currently is as potent as ever. Track for track, The Book of David is the strongest of Quik's albums, in my opinion (#2 is Rhythmalism, #3 is Safe & Sound).

Has he rapped about his nephew killing Top Dogg before? Quik mentions his nephews a lot, never noticed any real anger towards them though.

[polepositon]

1993-i love the I wanna see. beat goes hard.
-whats the shit?

1994- How did it get dangerous? like, what happened? that little brown bucket story?
-rem the release of the track. everyone was talking bout it.
-never heard any of the danny boy tracks.
-didnt mean to turn you on. beat goes hard.
-YAY to safe and sound. love the album. love the cover. played that album to death.

1995-not hip to the source awards dollar and sense.
- what kid? what happened?
-what el rey incident? what happened?
-rem the big jake obituary pamplet type thing. a pic of him sorta like in the sky if im not mistaken. i didnt knwo the guy. didnt go to any funeral. but, this big sorta light skinned guy that went by Tiny i think, was seeing my cousin. he brought it over. i was baby. so, my cousin just was like guess who he works with..im all who, shes all dj quik...she knew i would go nuts. if he was telling the truth.

1996- 1997: i still to this day have not listend to the rhythmalism album as a whole. and i see alot of people on here say it was his best album in their opinion.

"Tha Shit" is the unreleased album of 2ND II None..is this Safe+Sound quality of production!! They bootleg this in 2008!! Google It!! Is Classic

The beef w/ MC Eiht take to the Compton streets, its serious .

Danny Boy album .. "It's All About Time" released in 2010 . Quik destroys on the production..

The Kid Incident? Look:  http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-28/local/me-36972_1_hawthorne-police

EL Rey incident was the murder of a guy, Rolling 60's Crips affiliated . This is a Death Row party, and some Crips attended to the show, and insulted Quik ( Because EIHT beef ), and the TTP'S  of Quik entourage beat-to-death one of the guys.

The Police has a dossier claiming Quik,Hi-C,Zeek and Donzelly RU were responsible for the death.

Obviously Suge Knight has a way to rid them of the charges, with his contacts .

Thanks.

[polepositon]

Is his name Dante or David?

How did he hit the boy? Was the boy crossing illegally? What happened? That's traumatic. Rest in piece little one.

The song, tha shit, the beat is cool. I didn't find a full album.

The crips attended the after party? Or the show? How did try insult him? So, try literally stomped him out til he died?

That label was nothing but the damn devil.

Where do we hear this Danny boy album. Damn shame he ended trying out for American idol. I'm not a fan, but, is love to hear the production u speak of.

[MOBNigga06]

1994

- The Danny Boy album sessions on Death Row

Isn't 1994 a little early for the recording of Danny Boy's album? I would have guessed that the album was recorded in 1995 or 1996.

[Jimmy H.]

Thing I always wanted to know about Quik was the origins of his brief feud with Everlast from House of Pain.  Anyone know the deal behind that one?

[Mr. Theo]

Is his name Dante or David?

How did he hit the boy? Was the boy crossing illegally? What happened? That's traumatic. Rest in piece little one.

The song, tha shit, the beat is cool. I didn't find a full album.

The crips attended the after party? Or the show? How did try insult him? So, try literally stomped him out til he died?

That label was nothing but the damn devil.

Where do we hear this Danny boy album. Damn shame he ended trying out for American idol. I'm not a fan, but, is love to hear the production u speak of.

His name is David Martin Blake..."Dante Blake" is a pseudonym used by him.

He hits the kid accidentally . Problaby the kid crossed the street running or outside the crosswalk.

Put on Youtube "2ND II NONE UNRELEASED TRACKS" .. there got all tracks

This is a after party of Source Awards, the Crips attended to the show because Snoop Dogg was performed along with DJ Quik.

They insulted Quik, while he performed..So Quik was it to face them..one of the dudes steals Quik cap..and the brawl begins...the crips get away but one of them (Kelly Jamerson) was caught.
On the news, were reported responsible the Tree Top Pirus entourage and Death Row Members ( Suge bodyguards ) ..but on police reports claims DJ Quik, HI-C , Zeek ( Quik's friend ) and Donzelly RU ( OG Compton TTP ) for the act .


Put on Youtube, Danny Boy "Its All About Time" all tracks available here !!

[Mr. Theo]

1994

- The Danny Boy album sessions on Death Row

Isn't 1994 a little early for the recording of Danny Boy's album? I would have guessed that the album was recorded in 1995 or 1996.

No . Quik produced tracks was recorded in 1994 and possibly early 95. Remember the "Dollaz+Sense" beat was a Danny Boy beat "Steppin"..Danny Boy give the beat to Quik.. this explain "And that little singin ass nigga Danny Boy" shout out on Dollaz and Sense.

The rest of the album was recorded after Quik tracks ( The Devante Swing tracks ) these were recorded in 95-96

[Mr. Theo]

Yo, Mr. Theo, you are seriously the man, I think you might be the most learned fan of DJ Quik on the planet. How do you know so much about him?

1993-97 were chaotic years for Quik. I remember in an interview he said he woke up one day and was like "Damn, it's 1998, and I'm alive!" As for the varying quality of his music, I think Quik has made extremely high quality tracks in ever year he's been active. 93-97 were great years, and the quality dips a bit in the early 2000s. But I think he currently is as potent as ever. Track for track, The Book of David is the strongest of Quik's albums, in my opinion (#2 is Rhythmalism, #3 is Safe & Sound).

Has he rapped about his nephew killing Top Dogg before? Quik mentions his nephews a lot, never noticed any real anger towards them though.

The song "We Still Party" was inspired by Top Dog death

[makaveliapostle]

as always, thanks mr. theo 

[Matty]

thanks for the interesting read.

i consider around 95-96 to be when quiks production hits the next level, where he crafts a trademark sound with g-one and rob bacon. the 96-2000 period is golden.