DJ Quik - Safe And Sound (2025 Repress 2LP Vinyl) (Vinyl LP)

DJ Quik - Safe And Sound (2025 Repress 2LP Vinyl)

Be With Records present a reissue of DJ Quik's Safe And Sound, originally released in 1995. Complete with "Tanqueray," the hidden track from the original CD release.

DJ Quik is a giant of West Coast hip-hop. With 1995's Safe And Sound, he scaled new levels of musical magnificence with his signature new age P-Funk/laconic G-Funk. A quintessential, sun-scorched LA album, this is pretty much essential. A preternaturally gifted producer/rapper, DJ Quik has produced scores of LA gangsta rap classics. He's released platinum and gold records of his own, as well as helped craft them for the likes of Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr Dre. Quik has always been quirkier and more interesting than his gangsta rap peers, both musically and lyrically.

By the time of his third album DJ Quik was a household name on the West Coast -- California's premier rapper/producer not named Andre Young. Released on Profile in 1995, Safe And Sound was certified gold. Less reliant on samples and more focused on live instruments, it elevated him from producer to fully-fledged composer. This sound -- the quick, winding basslines, tinny high hats, smooth instrumental solos, soulful pipes, and Roger Troutman's talkbox -- defined him.

This is an album of full-blown masterpieces. Rich soundscapes and masterfully arranged orchestrations with dense layers of sounds, intricate rhythms, and well-balanced songwriting. Mastered for vinyl by Simon Francis, cut by Pete Norman and pressed at Record Industry.

Tracklisting:

1. Get At Me
2. Diggin' U Out
3. Safe + Sound
4. Somethin' 4 Tha Mood
5. Don't You Eat It!
6. Can I Eat It?
7. Itz Your Fantasy
8. Tha Ho In You
9. Dollaz + Sense
10. Let You Havit
11. Summer Breeze
12. Quik's Groove III
13. Sucka Free
14. Keep Tha "P" In It
15. Hoorah 4 Tha Funk (Reprise)
16. Tanqueray