DJ Quik

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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DJ Quik is one of the most prolific figures in West Coast hip-hop. He's a great rapper, but he's always considered himself a producer first, crafting some of the most inventive samples and beats of the genre. This summer, DJ Quik joins fellow legends Warren G and Snoop Dogg for a tour across that great nation to the North on the Cali to Canada Tour. When Quik joined Bullseye in 2014, he talked about the method behind his sampling and his awesome, awesome hairstyles over the years.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. There is a short list of truly great rapper producers.
0:43.2	Folks who combine the verbal skill of the MC and the melodic and technical skills of the beatmaker
0:49.1	are rare. Doing it well, even more so. My guest, DJ Quick, stands at the very top of that list.
0:58.0	His conversational and occasionally confessional Mike style would have been enough to make him a star,
1:02.9	but he also helped create G-Funk.
1:06.2	And his distinctive aesthetic has backed artists ranging from Snoop Dog to Jay-Z to Tony, Tony.
1:13.2	It was now a decade ago that I talked to DJ Quick, and it was easily, and I really mean
1:19.2	this, easily one of my all-time favorite music interviews on Bolzai. Back then, Quick had just
1:24.7	put out his ninth full-length album, The Midnight Life.
1:28.6	He's since gone on to collaborate with rappers like The Game and Westside Boogie, and now
1:32.7	he's going out on tour. The Cali to Canada tour teams quick up with fellow legends
1:38.3	Warren G and Snoop Dog for a tour across that great nation to our north.
1:46.9	Yes, folks, Canada kicks off this June.
1:49.6	Quick is also hard at work on a new album,
1:52.5	so hard at work that he basically quit using Twitter so he could focus on, and I can't wait to hear it.
1:55.1	In the meantime, here's a bit from one of his first hits
1:57.6	from his debut album, Quick is the name.
2:00.2	This track is born and raised in Compton.
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