DJ Quik Breaks Down the History of the West Coast Rap Sound, Talks about the Making of Classics Like "You’Z a Ganxta," and Gives Flowers to Legends Easy-E and Tupac

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In this important episode of The People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with hip-hop legend DJ Quik for a much-anticipated career retrospective. Quik breaks down the West Coast sound, and how he learned the importance of pushing himself while working with Teddy Riley. He describes growing up in Compton, and the fact that his focus on music allowed him to avoid gang life as a youngster. Quik also goes deep on his collaborations—giving flowers to and speaking on the importance of the late Eazy-E and Tupac. Plus, he recounts some of his work with Suga Free, Raphael Saadiq, and of course Talib Kweli. This episode is truly legendary, and will take you places you wouldn’t expect. Talib, Jasmin, and Quik will have you locked in. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine?
0:10.4	What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes with stars from the game,
0:14.8	to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:21.5	Use the gangster. I was just trying to distance myself. I wanted to go pop.
0:25.4	You know, because, you know, it's all fun. He's very, very literal in that record.
0:31.6	It's all fun and games until every concert gets shot up.
0:36.6	So it got to a point to where I stopped touring because every concert was getting shot up.
0:41.2	We would have to pick and choose when to wear the bulletproof vest,
0:44.4	when we need extra guns, extra guys to get us out of the back.
0:47.6	We had to draw the plans. They had to know what the topography of the building,
0:52.0	the ways in, the ways out, there's multiple ways these guys might come from.
0:55.7	It was just a whole, that was just weird.
0:58.9	It was like, you know, it's like, why? You know, we get shot at.
1:01.8	And it got to a point to where we was getting shot at so regularly that if the gunshot was
1:07.2	wet in that clothes, we didn't move that fast. Wow. It's got to get numb to it.
1:12.1	Man, but I think it's crazy because when such a gangster record, like,
1:16.4	dollars a cent of some of your earlier music, I would posit that doing use a gangster where you're
1:22.8	like, no, I'm not. And actually, I'm not like that. It's more brave than any of those gangster.
1:27.9	That's with shocker concerts. She said, this juice got balls.
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