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In Quik’s own words, Rosecrans is: “a long ass avenue that goes from the beach to the streets / And it probably ain’t got no potholes in it.” The funny thing is, that sentence perfectly describes his ...

It might be a commercial for Beats Music and Ciroq, but DJ Quik's latest record "Trapped On the Track" still kinda bangs. Sometime after that, Quik's creative ideas became more and more detached from ...

There is no denying DJ Quik’s OG status in hip hop and the work he put in to help build the framework for West Coast rap music. Yet, when it comes to naming some of the most popular and influential ...

The combination of nostalgia and cultural canonization has, at this point, consistently inundated clubs with veteran guitar bands playing “classic” albums. I use scare quotes partially because I ...

DJ Quik has some choice words for Kanye West during a recent interview with the #NOAHTV show. While the legendary producer was promoting his new collaborative project with Problem called Rosecrans, ...

No disrespect to the self-proclaimed regulators (the late Nate Dogg and Warren G), but DJ Quik also pioneered the G-Funk sound. The Jheri-curled MC has always kept his music gangsta, while sprinkling ...

DJ Quik confronts social and racial issues that weigh on the black community in his soulful new track “Black Friday,” which the OG Compton rapper released on his SoundCloud. “I wrote this piece ...

Age is a rapper's worst enemy. Perhaps more than any other genre of music, hip-hop is a young man's game. As hip-hop artists grow old, they tend to lose touch, and often either begin chasing current ...

Longevity in rap music is rare. By Billboard Staff Longevity in rap music is rare. In a genre that is often unfriendly to veteran acts, DJ Quik has ably maintained a lucrative career for the better ...

On a Monday night, behind the door of one of Burbank's unmarked and windowless storefront recording studios, DJ Quik was finishing his first remix in over a decade. Standing at the Little Big Room's ...

Nineties West Coast pioneer DJ Quik has experienced a late-career renaissance on the strength of solo albums like 2011’s The Book of David and 2014’s The Midnight Life, as well as collaborative ...