DX: Speaking of that era, I was just listening to all the leaked demo recordings from [2Pac’s]
All Eyez on Me. And man, I can’t believe how much you polished up that album.
DJ Quik: Yeah, man! I did it in two days. I put a spit shine on them records. When the tapes went up, I went right to work. I dialed them bytches in like Pop records. And you know what else? In the UAD stuff – I don’t know if you’re into Universal Audio, but if you go
on their website they’re mentioning All Eyez on Me as far as the [SSL mixing board]. ‘Cause they just recreated the SSL plug-ins. And they did ‘em with SSL, so they’re licensed to UAD – Universal Audio Digital. And, they talk about a Guns N Roses record, they talk about another big record, and they put
All Eyez on Me up there, and said that these were the records that defined the SSL sound. They said some big journalist word about 2Pac’s record that was just crazy. And they gave me
a credit
. They gave me a credit as David Blake. I was blown away.
DX: I just know “Skandalouz” wouldn’t be the classic it is without the talk box [you added to it].
DJ Quik: Yeah, I touched [that record]. I had my boy, Cornelius Mims, play bass on it. That was
Daz [Dillinger]’s beat. Daz shot it to me and I really made it a record that they wouldn’t have to clear a sample with. I played Rhodes [electric piano] on there too. I was coming.

...Quik sayin he did the same thing nikkas say Dre did for Daz lol....But Quik also says he did some of that same thing for Dre as well and worked on GRODT,and sometimes Dre would throw him beats he didn't wanna finish and let Quik polish em and theyd go in the vault. Maybe the lesson here is Quik is more talented then both of em