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 [...]

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 [...]

For me, this Summertime Jam is all about two things: the sweetly nostalgic lyrics on the sung verses, and the really quite inappropriate lyrics on the rapped verses.
The rap lyrics aren’t that inappropriate for the song itself — it’s the usual: Snoop rapping about driving around drinking champagne, Lil’ Kim mentioning how she travels to [...]