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Singing Demon’s Carols with DJ Quik & Kurupt
DJ Quik will be remembered for being one of the funkiest men in music history. Less memorialized will be his capacity for comic evil. His rhymes are pure gangsta corrosion. And if you know anything...
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360 Degrees to Make the Cypher Complete: Rating The 2012 BET Cyphers
Max Bell finds the revulsion invigorating. Another year. Another BET awards. Another round of ciphers. I give you my thoughts off the top of the dome. But really though, off the top of the dome....
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Summer Mixtape: Max Bell
Max Bell once played basketball with Nate Dogg. Last week, a friend and recent L.A. transplant told me 2Pac and Dr. Dre songs left still bodies staring at the deserted dance floor of a Westside...
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Redman’s Pacific Waters
Max Bell uses a joint roller. Did Redman smoke the club out your honor? He pleads five Philly blunts filled with top shelf left coast greenery. Over the breezy, g-funk bounce of the inimitable DJ...
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America’z Most Complete Artist: A Guide to DJ Quik
Almost a quarter century ago, David Blake first steered the Caddy down Spruce St., the funky player smooth as a prism, in possession of a semi-automatic and the swagger of James Bond disguised as a...
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Fall Mixtape: Jimmy Ness
Jimmy Ness bites the eel by the dozen Rather than opt for songs emotive of grey scale weather, blocked-guttering and shrinking daylight hours, I’ve compiled this fall mixtape as a snapshot of music...
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The Top 50 Albums of 2014 (All)
It’s our year end list. Check it out below. It’s our year end list. Check it out below. It’s our year end list. Check it out below. It’s our year end list. Check it out below. It’s our year end list....
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The Rap Up: Week of September 30
Torii MacAdams writes with a Doom mask on. DJ Quik – Black Friday Every new DJ Quik song is a small gift to Los Angeles, like sputtering, unexpected rains, al pastor burritos, and our former...
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From the Beach to the Streets: DJ Quik & Problem Drive Down ‘Rosecrans’
I’ve been thinking about leaving Los Angeles lately. Admittedly, it’s probably not going to happen. My life, work, family, and friends are here. My grandmothers are in their late 80s and their time is...
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