DJ Quik is one of those guys you don’t hear about often enough. He’s been working consistently since the 80s, and he still has a keen musical sense — I’m particularly fond of the “Quik’s Groove” instrumentals he drops into most of his releases.
He also has a spot in my personal Hall Of Fame for [...]

Jimmy Webb’s Wikipedia entry calls Glen Campbell “the finest interpreter of Jimmy Webb songs,” and I would have to say that “interpeter” is the perfect word choice, because who knows what Jimmy Webb is talking about most of the time?
That’s not a slight (at least not in my universe) — I’m about as big a [...]

I don’t believe in “man crushes.” Why can’t I just have a full-on regular house-sized CRUSH on a fella? I mean look at him!
I could go on forever as to why I love Fresh, but I’ll try to keep it short.
Mannie brought the home-cooked beats when everyone else was leaning on lazy samples, and single-handedly [...]