Tip: Now you can get music news on Twitter, just follow @oversome, @oversome_rock, or @oversome_hiphop |
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 [...]
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
Related Articles
![](templates/artists/2560.jpg)
DJ Quik: Jay Worthy & DāM-FunK – “105 West” (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Channel Tres, DJ Quik, & A-Trak)
submitted by Nick Jun 21st 2024 06:00 pm (www.stereogum.com)
![Vote for this article - make it popular!](templates/red/images/thumbup.gif)
![Request removal of this article](templates/red/images/thumbdown.gif)
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...
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
![](templates/red/images/emailicon.gif)
![](templates/red/images/addfavicon.gif)
![](templates/artists/2560.jpg)
DJ Quik: – “Class”
submitted by Nick Apr 1st 2023 12:00 am (www.stereogum.com)
![Vote for this article - make it popular!](templates/red/images/thumbup.gif)
![Request removal of this article](templates/red/images/thumbdown.gif)
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...
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
![](templates/red/images/emailicon.gif)
![](templates/red/images/addfavicon.gif)
![](templates/artists/2560.jpg)
DJ Quik: Album Of The Week: DJ Quik The Midnight Life
submitted by Nick Oct 14th 2014 10:00 pm (stereogum.com)
![Vote for this article - make it popular!](templates/red/images/thumbup.gif)
![Request removal of this article](templates/red/images/thumbdown.gif)
“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...
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
![](templates/red/images/emailicon.gif)
![](templates/red/images/addfavicon.gif)
![](templates/artists/2560.jpg)
DJ Quik: Stream DJ Quik The Midnight Life
submitted by Nick Oct 10th 2014 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)
![Vote for this article - make it popular!](templates/red/images/thumbup.gif)
![Request removal of this article](templates/red/images/thumbdown.gif)
The great Compton rapper and producer DJ Quik has been in the game for decades, and he is still finding strange, idiosyncratic new ways to make slick and funky pimp-rap. Quik is a man with ideas, and those ideas are all over The Midnight Life, Quik’s fun-as-hell new album. The album moves from super-nasty gangsta [...]
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
![](templates/red/images/emailicon.gif)
![](templates/red/images/addfavicon.gif)
![](templates/artists/2560.jpg)
DJ Quik: – “Pet Sematary” Video
submitted by Nick Oct 3rd 2014 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)
![Vote for this article - make it popular!](templates/red/images/thumbup.gif)
![Request removal of this article](templates/red/images/thumbdown.gif)
“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...
![](templates/red/images/speechbubble.gif)
![](templates/red/images/emailicon.gif)
![](templates/red/images/addfavicon.gif)
<< Previous12next >>
Popular News this week
![](templates/artists/6.jpg)
Avril Lavigne: Appointed To...
0 votes - 31 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 31 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/6.jpg)
Avril Lavigne: live at Glas...
0 votes - 30 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 30 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/6.jpg)
Avril Lavigne: appointed to...
0 votes - 27 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 27 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/542.jpg)
Wilco: Release New EP, Jeff...
0 votes - 26 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 26 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/1054.jpg)
Neil Young: Stream Neil You...
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/383.jpg)
Amy Winehouse: Glastonbury ...
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/1205.jpg)
Era: Maina Doe: reinventing...
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 25 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/2875.jpg)
Drake: Camila Cabello calls...
0 votes - 24 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 24 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/686.jpg)
Elliott Smith: Doc Returnin...
0 votes - 23 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 23 clicks - 0 comments
![](templates/artists/296.jpg)
Dire Straits: Glastonbury 2...
0 votes - 20 clicks - 0 comments
0 votes - 20 clicks - 0 comments
Random Statistic
![](templates/red/images/stats.gif)
jynacide is the all-time top news submitter, having posted 129 articles to the site
New People on Oversome!