Many of us are in the mood for West Coast music this week. Well, here’s some West Coast music. Rapper Jay Worthy is Canadian-born, and he’s actually Grimes’ stepbrother, which will never stop being weird. But Worthy has been building a rep in the West Coast underground, and the rap underground in general, for many y...

The legendary Compton rapper and producer DJ Quik has been making music since the late ’80s, and he’s still perfectly capable of making an absolutely gorgeous new track. Before today, it had been a while since we’ve heard from Quik. His last record was Rosecrans, a collaborative EP with Problem that came out way bac...

A couple of weeks ago, DJ Quik, that great longtime restless presence on the California rap scene, released a very good album called The Midnight Life. In the new video for the early single “Life Jacket,” we see the legendary rapper/producer spending time on a yacht with some ladies and with the song’s two guest [...]

“That Getter,” the first single from DJ Quik’s new album The Midnight Life, had one guest, and that guest’s name was David Blake. David Blake is Quik’s birth name, so I assumed this was Quik himself, rapping with a slightly different flow and doing a “T.I. Vs. T.I.P.” thing, e...

“Back on the scene with no cracks in my screen”: That line is proof that DJ Quik is better at iPhone ownership than I am. The legendary Compton rapper and producer returns later this month with a new album called The Midnight Life, and one of the three advance single’s he’s shared is “Pet Sematar...