#ThrowbackThursdays: DJ Quik Drops third Studio Album "Secure + Sound"

February 21, 1995 – “If it don’t make dollaz/It don’t make sense.” DJ Quik spit these phrases on the aptly titled “Dollaz + Sense,” one the lead singles from the Compton legend’s third studio album, Secure + Sound. 

Launched on February 21, 1995 Prile Information, the 17-track challenge overflowed with West Coast G-funk flavored bravado and additional propelled Quik’s discourse with Compton’s Most Wished rapper and (then) rival gang member MC Eiht. On the time, Quik was a member the Tree High Pirus whereas Eiht repped the 159th St. Tragniew Park Compton Crips.

CMW and Quik had already swapped a pair diss tracks however on “Dollaz + Sense,” Quik went for Eiht’s jugular.

“You fuckin coward, tremblin like a nervous wreck/Trigger once I caught your ass, you set your self in verify/And whenever you left my presence, you left expedient/You ain’t no fuckin killer, youse a comic, beyotch,” he rapped. “Inform me why you act so scary/Givin your set a nasty title wit your misspelled title/E-I-H-T, now ought to I proceed/Yeah you omitted the G trigger the G ain’t in you.”

From there, it solely bought worse. Quik slammed Eiht for an alleged violent encounter that they had with each other.

“Keep in mind that time you was rollin on the Westside/And a bit of brown bucket pulled up in your facet/Caught at that mild in your Camry within the midst an actual killer/Inform me, did you are feeling a bit of nervous (hell yeah),” he spit. “You was within the shadow demise/With two trey-five-sevens pointed at your chest, hmm/Whatchu gon do/The place was your niggaz that kill at/You ain’t bought no killers so kill dat.

“Holdin up your arms and beggin for a move/You fortunate they didn’t simply to get to dumpin on yo’ ass/Trigger this recreation you suppose is humorous is a few actual shit/So it’s essential to be extra cautious who you fuckin wit, beyotch/I’m via playin together with your punk ass.”

Their beef lasted over six years, however the two MCs in the end squashed it. Actually, Eiht was low-key impressed with the music’s sound again within the day.

“I assumed it was a pleasant beat,” he tells HipHopDX. “I’m a connoisseur simply good music so on the music facet, yeah, it was good.”

Secure + Sound was govt produced by the at present incarcerated Suge Knight, whereas Quik himself produced the bulk the tracks on his personal. It served because the follow-up to 1992’s Approach 2 Fonky and his 1991 debut Quik Is The Identify. 

Following its launch, the album peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the High R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It was licensed gold by the RIAA on July 11, 1995.

Different highlights from the challenge embrace “Get At Me” and “Hold The ‘P’ In It” with Playa Hamm, Hello-C, 2nd II None and Kam.

Revisit “Get At Me” beneath and cop the album here.