![]() Quik Is the Name, 2IINone and Skanless by Hi-C (which he also had production credits on) helped cement his name and that funk influenced sound as another hallmark of the west coast. ![]() While N.W.A., Cube, and MC Eiht represented the West Coast hard core gangster society, DJ Quik represented the soulful presentation of the pimp persona who could still get down if he had to. Scarface, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, 2pacalypse Now, Ain’t A Damn Thing Changed, Death Certificate, Sons of the P, Niggaz4life, To Tha Rescue, Breaking Atoms (I’ll stop, I’m starting to feel like I’m going into mourning missing all this good music at this rate.) From a year with arguably more classics and more cities and states putting themselves on the map, we were blessed with the alter ego of the West Coast persona. B-Easy talked about this album briefly in this SOTW feature and he was right, this is classic.ġ991 featured an all out avalanche of Hip-Hop gems including De La Soul is Dead, The Low End Theory, We Can’t Be Stopped, Mr. ![]() ![]() The subject of classic material came up, to which I stated that there are 2 types of classics: 5Star flawless classics, and cultural classics (I’ll probably elaborate on this point in another article.) Today’s classic material is one of the latter. The big homie SBK and myself were having a good discussion on twitter during BET’s Top 10 Rappers show.
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