West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: polostaar on July 11, 2015, 06:18:23 PM
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Someone needs to remind him rhytmalism was his best era
His new album is weak, there's little melody in any of the songs
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agreed that unreleased el debarge tune he played at a recent concert sounded amazing. so smooth, need more quik like that.
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real talk. I will never buy a new quik album until he goes back to his old shit.
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I don't agree. His music after 1998 is still melodic and smooth. Check his catelog below.
Quik Is the Name (1991)
Way 2 Fonky (1992)
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
The Book of David (2011)
The Midnight Life (2014)
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I don't agree. His music after 1998 is still melodic and smooth. Check his catelog below.
Quik Is the Name (1991)
Way 2 Fonky (1992)
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
The Book of David (2011)
The Midnight Life (2014)
Out of those albums the only ones that had that melody / smooth feel was;
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under the Influence had moments of greatness.
This is why his sales nowadays can't even break 5k
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I think he's making joints these days that a small following in Cali like and come to his shows
Just like a lot of West artists. No one fux with em in the industry, they make music they want to hear and for each other. If you're waiting for them to go back to million dollar recording studios with a gang of session players and analogue equipment it ain't happening
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Someone needs to remind him rhytmalism was his best era
His new album is weak, there's little melody in any of the songs
cause its 2015 not 1996
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I think he's making joints these days that a small following in Cali like and come to his shows
Just like a lot of West artists. No one fux with em in the industry, they make music they want to hear and for each other. If you're waiting for them to go back to million dollar recording studios with a gang of session players and analogue equipment it ain't happening
i think in quik's case that's not really true...he always played the elements by himself for the most part. he always had rob bacon on guitar who's on midnight life again...on a few tracks he had james debarge and them, but that was the minority i think
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Just another example of a "why doesn't 'x rapper' do this" like they used to.
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I don't agree. His music after 1998 is still melodic and smooth. Check his catelog below.
Quik Is the Name (1991)
Way 2 Fonky (1992)
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
The Book of David (2011)
The Midnight Life (2014)
Out of those albums the only ones that had that melody / smooth feel was;
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under the Influence had moments of greatness.
This is why his sales nowadays can't even break 5k
Blaqkout wasn't included in this list and that album was great....you didn't like BOD? That album had plenty of cuts that were melodic or "quik-sounding" nobody,love of my life,time stand still,the quiks groove was incredible maybe you need to play it again or make a mix of all the quik songs you like and throw them in there they fit in beautifully with the rest of his catalog....but he has 2 distinct sounds the "rhythm-al-ism" quik and the "trauma" quik most of his stuff past 05 contain more elements of the trauma sound,more experimental then cookie cutter "quik" but still not bad the midnight life was dope too life jacket,pet semetary,fuck all night....
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Quik Is the Name (1991)
Way 2 Fonky (1992)
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
Blaqkout (2009)
The Book of David (2011)
The Midnight Life (2014)
Blaqkout is included in the list now ;)
Quik has an impressive catelog. You can see that he has evolved as a rapper, producer, mixer, engineer, musician etc.
I really dig the production and the clarity on his last three albums. And even some of the experimental songs on Blaqout.
Latest songs that i bump in my car are:
- killer dope
- flow for sale (separation of the guitar on the left and right channel is fucking nice)
- So Compton
- Puffin the dragon
- Pet semetery (so smooth)
- fuck all night (beat knocks hard)
- The appeal (smoothness)
- Do you know
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Quik Is the Name (1991)
Way 2 Fonky (1992)
Safe + Sound (1995)
Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
Blaqkout (2009)
The Book of David (2011)
The Midnight Life (2014)
Blaqkout is included in the list now ;)
Quik has an impressive catelog. You can see that he has evolved as a rapper, producer, mixer, engineer, musician etc.
I really dig the production and the clarity on his last three albums. And even some of the experimental songs on Blaqout.
Latest songs that i bump in my car are:
- killer dope
- flow for sale (separation of the guitar on the left and right channel is fucking nice)
- So Compton
- Puffin the dragon
- Pet semetery (so smooth)
- fuck all night (beat knocks hard)
- The appeal (smoothness)
- Do you know
Definitely...although the albums have been received with some critism I don't think the "fans" really appreciate them in the aspect of understanding his growth and the diversity he incorporates in his music...I don't want an album full of "We still party" remakes because it's been done...I love the experimental side of quiks musicality that's what I listen for....he's always been westcoast without trying to be...I like your list bro that sounds just like mine the appeal is one of his best verses and the beat is incredible I do love life jacket and the end? As well as far as the last 3 albums he's put out...fuck all night sounds like a balance and options leftover
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couse he changed with the ages?!
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Yeah BlaQKout was crazy good
Quik got way more mileage from Kurupt than Terrace did on streetlights
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i've got no problem with his experimental tracks, but they're definitely very
HIT 'Back That Shit Up'
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MISS 'Trapped On The Tracks'
if ya feel me. Quik can do whatever he pleases though, but we're not all going to like it. Somehow i don't think he cares, from his interviews you get the impression that if you're critical of any of his work you're not a true fan or something.
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i've got no problem with his experimental tracks, but they're definitely very
HIT 'Back That Shit Up'
and
MISS 'Trapped On The Tracks'
if ya feel me. Quik can do whatever he pleases though, but we're not all going to like it. Somehow i don't think he cares, from his interviews you get the impression that if you're critical of any of his work you're not a true fan or something.
I do love back that shit up I feel that song is a perfect example of the growth of quik as an artist because instead of being the same food reheated it's like a new recipe of a favorite taste you know? I think another reason why people miss the old sound is that on the tracks we get later on he's not as sample heavy as he used to be...a lot of his previous works are smoother because he's sampling old school records from a time where virtually everything was smooth like that...fast forward to now the tracks that those fans enjoy are the pet semetarys where the same formula is followed...it seems like every miss in his catalog is just one bad choice away from being a hit tho like on trapped in the track that beat thumps in the car speakers in a "trauma" like fashion but the chorus was just very whack to me no chorus and it's good...it's grown on me tho...idk I think a true fan can be critical but still support an artist they like...the people who are like "why did he change" or "why is he still making the same kind of music" the ones who can never be pleased are the ones any musician can do without cuz your damned for trying to stay relevant to them and damned for being true to yourself