I was just listening to his latest album for the first time earlier. It was a pretty good effort, when he's strictly on his Compton shyt it's vintage Quik but he finds time to push the limits. I think Kendrick made a smart move on this one, imo Quik's sound could work in this era he just gotta use it right.
**snorts 14seconds***
On the cool it was alot of behind the scenes stuff going on with Quik and The Book of David, because what was released was entirely different than what he had at different listening events prior the album dropping.
I know this
didnt make it because fans took the "Jump that nikka game on the set", as a diss to game, when its quik saying maybe the trees shoulda put him in their set, also he dissing the shyt out of sister.
He also performed the album live and the one song everybody that has been to the listening events from the one at wavaflow all the way to sxsw has heard and literally fiending for is at the 2:00 min mark
, and if you heard the original album in its entireity you will know and understand why the release version sounds like its missing pieces.
He didnt tease fans like he did on Under the influence the song thats actually playing before one on 1 starts
and teasing fans with that instrumental on visualism
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Book of David was an album on a budget, due to him being the only rap producer to get the grease sample
cleared and Bun- B being a diva and taxing quik for that garbage verse, Bun could have gotten a album mixed or a song produced on some trade shyt.
Not to mention Prince invited Quik and Questlove out to his house for a weekend, Questlove ended up giving Quik alot of unreleased music, since he is a regular at Prince, Nobody is one of the songs that was unreleased, Prince has stopped Quik before on Suga Free's New Testament from sampling,Quik was ready to break bread if Prince decided to be anal again.
With all the changes and politics, Quik still put out a dope album.
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Just a few Quik beats I can hear Kendrick killing..
