Compton, California musician DJ Quik detailed his time spent at a handful of record labels early in his career, during a recent interview on Sway In The Morning.
According to DJ Quik, he first signed with Suge Knight and D.O.C.’s Funky Enough label in 1989. He eventually left the label for Profile Records following a bidding war between Profile Records and Select Records.
Quik recalled signing a deal with Profile Records for $125,000, an amount he says was “significant” when he signed to the label in 1990.
“Actually, the first time I got together with Suge was way before I got a record deal,” DJ Quik said. “It was like 1989. He and D.O.C. started a label called Funky Enough. They signed us…He was Suge back then. That was before Death Row. Before he even met Dre. He was just Suge, you know? I ended—I got out of the deal with Suge and ended up getting into a bidding war between Select Records and Profile Records [in] 1990. And ended up going with Profile. They outbid Select. I ended up being the highest signing that they ever did to that day…I wanted to sign with [Eazy-E], but E and them was busy.”
DJ Quik spoke briefly on the Death Row Records era, referring to that time as “significant.” He says that Suge used the power he gained in his career to make Death Row a place where artists who “weren’t getting taken care of in the industry” could go.
“It was significant,” he said when asked about the Death Row era. “I think at that point Suge was just—He became real powerful from Interscope…Suge wanted to look out for all the artists he felt weren’t getting taken care of in the industry. So, that’s why we all gravitated towards him…At that point I was going through it with Profile. Profile had this thing where [when] they didn’t want to pay you they put you on suspension. ‘My artist is on suspension.’ So, I stayed on suspension because they didn’t want to pay me. It was just weird, so Suge stepped in. Became my manager.”
In addition to speaking on Death Row and Suge Knight, DJ Quik also offered his thoughts on Lil Wayne and Chris Brown’s alleged ties to the Bloods gang. He called the pair’s alleged ties both “honoring” and “laughable.”
“It’s kind of honoring, but it’s laughable too at the same time,” Quik said, according to AllHipHop. “They don’t really know what that shit is about. We took that shit way seriously. We were trying to survive through that shit. They got it too easy.”
DJ Quik’s interview can be found below (via AllHipHop).
Quik is the most underrated rapper and producer of all time!!!!
smiley cockbreath huh?
quik always wanted to be a part of that death row thing, but he was around and played a big role in it, but it was always in the background…but quik is that guy, that album is fire!
IF GAME WASENT GETTIN FREE SONGZ AND EXTORTING THEM NIGGAZ THE WOULDNT BE CLAIMIN THAT SHIT BUT THEY GOOD CAUSE THE AFFILIATED WIT THE BIG HOMIE…. QICK AND GAME ARE COOL WOULD NEVER SAY GAMES AFFILIATION IS HONORING OR LAUGHABLE CAUSE GAME BOUT THAT MOB LIFE FOREAL BANG BANG!!!!!
Lol game hangs with known snitches, nuff said about his gangster
NIGGA GAME WAS 13 fuckin Years old when that shit happend to 2pac what the fuck are you talkin bout???? Jimmy Henchmen??? NIGGA who the fuck has Game snitched on???? YOU DONT JUST WALK AROUND COMPTON WITH CBP tatooed on you and be fake nigga you suburban fuck boys dont know shit about real and fake ONLY SNITCH GAME HUNG AROUND WAS 50 thats why preme nem heated that nigga down 9 times
nigga was screaming stop snitching while being managed by a fucking government informant!
a government informant now not when he was managing game having rappers houses firebombed n shot up…
no he was an informant in the 90s too, he been exposed for that, got brothers locked up to save his own ass from doing time
oh yeah? so then he was a rat when biggie and pac were fucking with him…
pwoof pwease
Niggas who rock perms seem masculine and manly.
yeah you pussy
Quick the OG – and he laced my cousin Frankie with game. Follow me on IG, same name.
NIGGA GAME WAS 13 fuckin Years old when that shit happend to 2pac what the fuck are you talkin bout???? Jimmy Henchmen??? NIGGA who the fuck has Game snitched on???? YOU DONT JUST WALK AROUND COMPTON WITH CBP tatooed on you and be fake nigga you suburban fuck boys dont know shit about real and fake
Yeah NIGAAZ DO BE SAYIN A LOT OF DUMB SHIT ABOUT GAME KNOWIN THEY DONT WANNA SEE THAT NIGGA IN THE STREETS FOR ALL THE RUMORS NIGGAZ SAY ABOUT DUDE NONE THAT SHIT SEEM TO STOP HIS SHINE GAME A REAL 1 FAM U NIGGAZ SAY YOU BEEN TO COMPTON YALL NIGGAZ PROBABLY DROVE ON A LIL OUTSKIRT DIDNT STEP ONE FOOT OUT CHO SHIT! GAME STILL BE IN THEM STREETS MY DUDE!
^both of those comments are from the same person…
and cbps hood is like 3 blocks at the most they make no noise in compton
HAHAHA how u know thats same person troll moderator????? hahahahah well tell you what anonymous its tru dummy Game was 13 when that shit happend to 2pac he has nothing to do with that. AND if game is a fake and broke and all these things lilwayne chris brown tyga jeezy none of these niggaz would have any reason to affiliate with him especially bird man them why would the fuck with a fake ass nigga who has less money than them?????????? They dont benefit shit from fuckin with game if its based on ur opinion so why is they fuckin with a broke ass fake blood?????? Cause they would get they ass robbed out there in hollywood if they didnt!!!!!!
same reason they work with that c.o. identity thief from flordia
everybody but the anons are waaaayyy too enthusiastic about whether a guy has gang ties or not.
“Cause they would get they ass robbed out there in hollywood if they didnt!!!!!!”
what kind of rap fantasy land do you live in?
Games protected by crips the same ones who protect a lot of the rappers when they come to la
no one in his entourage is from cedar block piru
and gtd doesn’t count because theyre rappers tryna get put on
those rappers you mentioned already had a relationship with game when he was a more popular rapper they don’t fuck with game because he can protect them…
tyga pays hoovers chris brown pays fruit town and lil wayne pays mob
and game pays rollin 60 crips lolol
Quik is a legend. He produced majority of All Eyes On Me, but was under contract so he didnt get credit on the album. Dude has produced so many hits over the yrs but doesnt get the credit he deserves. Much respect to Quik.
No respect to Quik. He has made some good beats here and there, but like Alchemist and Madlib, he’s not that good producer after all. Weak shit.
what about Ras Kass?
too busy sucking eminem and dr dre dick. still looking for a deal ass nigga
Quik better hide. Wayne’s killed many gangsters before and he’s about to end quik.
Wayne’s 5’3 ass never killed anyone outside of playing Call of Duty. Quik has nothing to worry about.
Any man that claims a gang and hang with that gang is official. You can’t laugh at a dude who hangs with crazed gang members just because they are joining after they became a celebrity. Get into it with one of them celebrity gang bangers, and I bet you’ll run into hiding as usual. Celebrity gang members can still put a hit on you as much as a hood gang member. That’s how 2Pac was killed, participating and scrapping in celebrity gang affiliation fights.
got it all figured out huh?
Do yourself a favour, and shut the fuck up!
Ha, celebrity gangbangers? you meant fagbangers.
chris brown aint gangster these dudes go into doing gd with their lives by doing hit music then get arrested after how stupid
Lil Wayne and Chris Brown are an embarrassment.
Church. Weezy’s been gettin Hot Boyz money since he was like 13. the fuck he know about bangin.
he is banging birdman who is like an autistic suge knight so maybe that means he’s in a gang or whatever
Yall stole this story and headline from Boxden’s Ice Wolf. 10 + page thread. Can’t hate tho.
I seen that Boxden thread too
http://slumz.boxden.com/f87/dj-quick-says-chris-brown-and-lil-wayne-are-laughable-claiming-to-be-bloods-2130432/
and they both took the story from the Sway in the Morning video
bandpage.com/KingJul
Thank you Quik for tearing down these emo fucks’ heroes.
Thank you Quik for coming off like a jealous bitch nigga.
no self respecting gang member would ever make music with a former prison guard to lied about his past
and why is that?
theres a difference between music and the streets…
and rick ross is already some tracks with real ones from la
who is real from LA, game and nipsey who both associate with snitches
They would if it meant they were getting paid.
nipsey associates with snitches?
elaborate
nipsey g Malone roccet and mack 10
WTF?????!!!!! For Lil Wayne and Chris Brown I validate. Stop fucking around y’all
To clarify: no fakes… Both of them are real blood. No discussion.