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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 was a rapper who could create his own niche in the world of rap music and moved away from the political stance and the avant-noise as well as the party vibes of the genre of old-school rap. He left N.W.A in the year 1992 and formed his own label "the Death Row" along with Suge Knight.

However, in the year 1992, he left Death Row Records and Retaliated from the previous company by announcing the death of gangsta rap. He then formed his own label, "Aftermath". The bold steps of Dr. Dre earned the label critical respect although success was yet crawling far. During that time, his previous label The Death Row suffered heavy loses due to the death of Tupac Shakur and the Imprisonment of Knight on charges of racketeering. In the same year Dre's first album, under the Aftermath label came out as a various artist collection "Dr. Dre Presents…The Aftermath". Because of the crippling of the Death Row, all the mediation was on "The Aftermath". The album could not make a significant impact on the minds of the people, but his solo presentation, "Been There Done That" was a hit with the listeners.

The album that was released under the label The Aftermath proved Dr. Dre wrong about the death of gangsta rap. However, Aftermath could not match standards with the G-funk template even if they had hard-core rappers in their band. The album however, revealed Dr. Dre's skill and interest for the urban RB and soul that were freshly exciting than other hip-hop tracks of the contemporary time. Even if the urban productions of the album were hits, still the individual performers could not make much of an impact in the creation of the label.

The Death Row Records, founded in the year 1991 by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight is considered amongst the most notorious records in the history of music. The label was once the breeding place for some of the stalwarts of music like the Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tupac Shakur and DJ Quik. Dr. Dre whose real name was Andre Romell Young, at one point of his career, left Ruthless Records and started Future Shock Records, a label of his own that was later named the Death Row Records; with Suge Knight and John Payne by his side.

However, in the year 1996, Dr. Dre filed a lawsuit against the label Death Row Records. He alleged that the Death Row and the bankruptcy administrator are trying to sell the copyright of the album featuring hits like “Nuthin” But a ‘G’ Thang” which are exclusively owned by him. He was vocal about his disapproval of the selling of the copyright to the album “The Chronicle”. However, in the year 1992, Dr. Dre permitted the Death Row to distribute the album in exchange of royalties. In an agreement in 1996, Dr. Dre agreed to change hands with the copyright of the album “The Chronicle” in return of royalties. However, in the year 2000 he was compelled to cancel the agreement by claiming that the company who bought the copyright of the album deprived him of the royalties that were promised to him. However, in the year 2008, February 5, Warner Music bought the assets of Death Row for $25 million.

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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.

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Founder and CEO of the notorious Death Row Records is one of many alleged "gang members" the city officials in Los Angeles banned from a neighborhood in Compton, California.

As reported by the Associate Press, the city officials requested a judge, in a proposed injunction introduced 01/24/08, that members of the street gang "Mob Piru"be banned from staying out past 10:00 PM, drinking alcoholic beverages in public, carrying weapons, or congregating in general.

Marion "Suge" Knight was just one of an estimated 200 people included in the injunction. The Death Row Record mogul said the proposed order was "crazy" and referred to it as a "publicity stunt."

Death Row Records, with infamous tactics of Suge Knight, spawned a generation of hardcore, gangster rap. Many famous artists such as DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Kurupt, and Daz owe their roots to Death Row Records.

How did Dre eva come up with his exploding, hardcore sound? Do you think you can surpass the skilz of the latest and greatest himself? If so, you've got to have this soundset. Equipped with all of his signature sound FX, super-sub kicks, tight crackin' snares, and blazin' percussion, this Dr. Dre inspired soundset is enough for you to make tracks so tight, you'll be bouncin' with the big boys! All sounds in this soundset are in the style of Dr. Dre.

This soundset contains over 1,000 sound samples including drums, bass tones, instrument samples, sound effects, and ethnic samples. All the sounds are in standard WAV (16 bit 44.1kHz) format compatible with most any hardware or software sampler.

Kevin Gilliam, better known as DJ Battlecat (or just Battlecat), is best known for his contributions to west coast style productions. His track record includes some of the top artist in the music industry like Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Tha Eastsidaz along with other west coast rappers.

His musical progressions are strongly influenced by the early '90s G-Funk sound pioneered by artists like Dr. Dre and DJ Quik. This style can be characterized by growling bass synthesizers and soulful keyboard chords.

Take a look at this video of Battlecat in the studio working on his customized Akai MPC 3000.