DJ Quik Learns The Trade With Death Row Records

With the advent of rap music in the mid 70's there emerged a true rap icon that is considered the most consistent among the artists and the musicians because of his unique ability to blend the music to speak in the language of the urban society and maintain the music's heritage at the same time. DJ Quik has four gold and platinum albums to his name and over one hundred million soundscan recordings. Quik also has production experience with 2Pac, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre to his credit.

In mid 90's DJ took cues from Dr. Dre's Death Row Records and made a name for himself in the music field. He made records in the g-funk style that inspired him to the level that he learned to use the talkbox from Roger Troutman and George Clinton and later made it a trademark character in his musical creations. In the year 1994, DJ Quik joined Death Row under the management of Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row and together they went on to produce "Safe + Sound" that had Death Row as a guest appearance. While working with Death Row, Quik produced an unknown amount of songs among which some were never released. Under Quik's production, the most famous of Death Row song is "Heartz of Man", sung by 2Pac on his debut Death Row Record album "All Eyes on Me". Although he is known for the production of the album, DJ also did additional production work of mixing half of the album.

As DJ Quik worked hard against the personal and professional problems, he managed to fathom out of them, however, in the process, he changed his name to Quik and rubbed the DJ out of his name.

Dr. Dre Goes To Battle With Death Row

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Legendary music genius, Dr. Dre, filed papers on February 5 requesting documents from former label Death Row. His efforts are to help identify the amount of unpaid royalties.

Dr. Dre, real name Andre Young, is doing so under Rule 2004 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, which allows judges to order companies to turn over documents containing sensitive or private information such as financial affairs, assets, and liabilities.

This is not the first time the music mogul has done this. His last filing was in 2007. The disputes are for the royalties of Dr. Dre's solo debut, The Chronic.

The label, at one time, held a power house of artists including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2 Pac, and many more. Dr. Dre originally helped Suge Knight start Death Row in 1991and initially held 50 percent ownership. In 1996, when Dr. Dre decided to part ways, he agreed to surrender his ownership in the company in exchange for royalties. According to Andre, though, Death Row never held its end of the deal.