DJ Quik reacts & agrees with a fan who says he’s the legendary producer everyone thinks Dr. Dre is. | "Finally Someone Has The Balls To Say It!!!!

[Awesome Wells]

You're downplaying what those musicians actually do.

They do all the heavy lifting by composing all the melodies and bass lines from scratch. All Dre does is add drums to music that he didn't create

Not true, at all.

Dre studied music theory. He is TELLING people what to play and how to play it. He knows what he wants to hear and he's instructing people on how to do it. Which is why Quincy Jones said that being in the studio with Dre reminded him of when he was working on Thriller. Dre ain't just banging out drums over random sh*t. He's literally composing music and directing every element, until it's what he's looking for.

Same way that D.O.C. said he's never seen anyone chop samples and blend them with other samples, the way Dre does. Mel-Man said the same, about how "Nobody knows their way around the MPC, like Dre does". Dude is a genius.

 

[JustCKing]

You're downplaying what those musicians actually do.

They do all the heavy lifting by composing all the melodies and bass lines from scratch. All Dre does is add drums to music that he didn't create

And you're downplaying what he actually does. Why would session players even be there in the first place? He has an idea of how a song should sound so he calls in musicians to play instruments to create from scratch or replay a sample. What Dre does is not much different from how a producer would sample. The difference is he calls in musicians to interpolate.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

And you're downplaying what he actually does. Why would session players even be there in the first place? He has an idea of how a song should sound so he calls in musicians to play instruments to create from scratch or replay a sample. What Dre does is not much different from how a producer would sample. The difference is he calls in musicians to interpolate.

The person you’re responding to thinks the session players just randomly stumbled upon the selected interpolated works

 

[Deadman187]

The person you’re responding to thinks the session players just randomly stumbled upon the selected interpolated works

What "selected interpolated works" was there when Scott Storch came up with the main riff and bassline for Still D.R.E by himself, whilst Dre was in the next room eating a sandwich?

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

What "selected interpolated works" was there when Scott Storch came up with the main riff and bassline for Still D.R.E by himself, whilst Dre was in the next room eating a sandwich?

Okay so make another Hov

 

[seymour cake]

Whats the top 3 songs produced by quick?

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Whats the top 3 songs produced by quick?

just 3?? cmon man, don't do this... I won't even name Quik's own songs

let's get down
if you stay ready
addictive

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Whats the top 3 songs produced by quick?

You’re asking?

If you’ve yet to do so, and you have an appreciation for the west coast sound, you have a lot of enjoyment ahead digging into this catalog

Imagine yourself listening to offbrand Death Row or offbrand NWA

But it’s all sole-produced and creatively spearheaded by one person rather than a cast of collaborators and session players

Like offbrand Eazy-E except more serious and he writes his own lyrics and produces his own tracks

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

DJ Quik literally has a whole future ahead of him now that he’s almost 35 years into his music career and finally abandoning the Eazy-E voice in favor of a warmer vocal delivery that more closely reflects his actual voice

From this new foundation he can essentially chart a whole new path

If he did a whole album with Larry June it’s over

That’s literally all it’d take

The acts he’s worked with are too far from mainstream for him to get mainstream recognition for the quality of the work. If he’s not going to develop a new act (for some personality types these efforts will always blow up their face) he needs a big name collaborator that’s not Problem


DJ Quik x Larry June in 2025 - showing a new style in his delivery and a lot of smooth funk and R&B sounds

 

[Reality Check]

DJ Quik literally has a whole future ahead of him now that he’s almost 35 years into his music career and finally abandoning the Eazy-E voice in favor of a warmer vocal delivery that more closely reflects his actual voice

From this new foundation he can essentially chart a whole new path

If he did a whole album with Larry June it’s over

That’s literally all it’d take

The acts he’s worked with are too far from mainstream for him to get mainstream recognition for the quality of the work. If he’s not going to develop a new act (for some personality types these efforts will always blow up their face) he needs a big name collaborator that’s not Problem


DJ Quik x Larry June in 2025 - showing a new style in his delivery and a lot of smooth funk and R&B sounds

Jay Worthy too. He'd bring the best out in Quik.