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And then the first new hip-hop record I bought was I bought LL Cool J's album, the Radioalbum. So I used to get records out the used bin. So I got a used one.ĭJ QUIK: Cause they used to sell them at our - we had this record store called The Sound Company. But you know, I couldn't afford no 12"s back then. Sugarhill Gang - "Rappers Delight" YouTube But the first hip-hop record I bought was a used version of " Rapper's Delight." Like, I remember buying "Freak Out," Chic, " Le Freak" on Atlantic. MUHAMMAD: What was the first hip-hop record you bought?ĭJ QUIK: I used to buy R&B. Or you rub it on your Levis to break the seal. You break the seal yourself, with the fingernail. MUHAMMAD: It wasn't a second-hand record though, was it?ĭJ QUIK: It was brand - it was unopened. That's one of the best, funkiest -ĭJ QUIK: Album was all ugly, you know.
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They used to sell them in liquor stores on the corner.ĭJ QUIK: They had a liquor store, you know, clearance rack, at the liquor store.ĭJ QUIK: So you could buy like compilations, Motown favorites, all this - you know, I bought Sly Stone, that song " Life Of Fortune And Fame," at that thing, 99-cent bin. You know?ĭJ QUIK: Back then, records were plentiful.
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So, you know, we got pretty musical before I came out. Like Battlecat? Battlecat was one of my buddies coming up and he used to bring over, like, MPC60 drum machines - before I even knew what they were, you know what I mean? And Roland D-50 synthesizers. And me and the homies in the neighborhood used to share equipment. Got like a Tascam 8-track or whatever and an SP-1200 drum machine.ĭJ QUIK: And that was kinda it. But I got about it when I was 18, got some real equipment. Multi-track recording, playing synthesizers and drum machines, mixing it together. Like, actually four-tracking, multi-recording, whatever. I got into production when I was like 15, 16. KELLEY: I thought this was gonna be a lesson about non-glare glass but alright.ĭJ QUIK: I was 18. So I was like, if I get some, I'ma hang 'em up.ĭJ QUIK: And I ended up leaving mine on the floor too. Like he was either too busy or, you know, not inclined to hang 'em up. But I just took a cue from him that when it comes to gold and platinum plaques, I don't think they look cool on the floor. MUHAMMAD: What was one of the most important lessons you learned being around him?ĭJ QUIK: It's to - most important lesson I learned was to - I don't know if it was really a lesson. So they took me up to his house one day in Beverly Hills, introduced me to him. named Will and - what were they called? - The Uzi Brothers. I was blown away.ĭJ QUIK: There was these - there was these rappers in L.A. That's my teacher right there, dude.ĭJ QUIK: Like, multi-track at home.
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I used to work with this guy named John Boylan who produced the group Boston and wrote " More Than A Feeling."ĭJ QUIK: I was one of his understudies. Like, you know -ĭJ QUIK: Suge Knight before he was Death Row. MUHAMMAD: But weren't you working - were you working with some people before?ĭJ QUIK: Yeah, I was working with a lot of people.ĭJ QUIK: The characters, bro. I think you've been in this longer than I have, actually. Y'all got all the information in front of y'all now. MUHAMMAD: In case you young'ns don't know what contemporaries means, go look it up.ĭJ QUIK: Get learning. And it got on the music."ĭJ QUIK: Just to hang out with my OGs in here, my contemporaries. I'm finna take some pictures of me.' You know, that's them days. I'm not gon' party.' You know what I mean? 'I ain't finna write no song. It's a different attitude when you go in the studio all fastidious and clean. "You gotta get funky to make records that give people the frown face when they hear it," he says. He told Microphone Check studio secrets, a Rick James story, and all about the funk. 7, 2014.Īfter 24 years in the music business, the producer and rapper from Compton, Calif., knows what's going on. DJ Quik onstage at his album release party at SOB's in New York City on Oct.