BlaQKout

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 41:58

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06.09.09
Two vets stretch each others' boundaries as far as possible
2009 | Label: Mad Science Recordings

The title is a deliberate echo of another hip-hop team-up, Method Man and Redman, but where that duo's Blackout! worked because of its casual bonhomie, this tour de force stretched its makers' boundaries as far as possible. Quik's beats have more variety, spice, glee, and plain snap than ever, from the bent orchestration of "Do You Know" to the R. Kelly-meets-G-funk "Ohh!" to the ridiculous out-electro of "Jupiter's Critic and the Mind of Mars." Then there's "9X's Outta 10," the starkest minimalist track since Clipse's "Grindin'," and every bit as menacing and great. If your jaw hit the floor while listening to new hip-hop in 2009, chances are it did so during BlaQKout.

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Great Collabo

biglinc

I have been a Quik fan since the early '90s and dig Kurupts flow. This album is a great collabo between two artists I may have never envisioned doing something like this together. This is one of those along the lines of Hip Hop Lives by KRS and Marley Marl. Get this one fa sho, and if you ain't got Hip Hop Lives, get that one too!

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Just like the similarly titled 2009 album from Method Man and Redman, DJ Quik and Kurupt’s Blaqkout is a throwback triumph that succeeds thanks to the hip-hop veterans’ superior chemistry and informal attitude. Anyone expecting a courageous game changer will be disappointed by all the swaggering, sexual bragging, and irresponsible pimping the duo frontload onto the effort, but coming to terms with the overall weekend attitude is quick and easy, thanks to rock-solid hooks and Quik’s production. On “Ohh!” he creates a head-bobbing backing track out of chopped-up vocals and smooth jazz keyboards, offering a G-Funk alternative to Timbaland’s “Indian Flute.” Key track “Do You Know” finds him blending blissed-out ambience and a Soul II Soul hook, but “F**k Y’All” employs Quik’s classic formula with that West Coast funk over thumping bass. Doggpound member Kurupt shines on the latter track, summing up the album’s reckless gangsta attitude with “I’m gonna slap him like the bitch that he is/Then I’m gonna turn around and slap the bitch that he with.” – David Jeffries

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