So the club got tore down and somebody died in the club that night. “But it started this chain reaction where everybody started fighting in the club. The fatal El Rey event happened in March of 1995, nearly six months after Murder Was The Case‘s soundtrack released. One of boys was in the audience and he was dissing me, and I started fighting with him,” says the artist around 1:01:00. There was a fight that I had at the El Rey Theatre, where I was in a death. He also adds why he performed the song when he did. Quik recalls that he knew where MC Eiht was going to be seated in MSG because the names were taped on seats during soundcheck. MC Eiht Explains Why His Beef With DJ Quik Was Unlike Any In Rap & Why It Ended (Video) Phonte adds that, as a fan, he was well aware. Watching the concert months after the soundtrack inclusion (which also appeared on 1995’s Safe + Sound album by Quik), Questlove admits that he had no idea that the two artists were at odds. Questlove, who was in attendance with The Roots, asks Quik about the performance. As Quik was from a Blood neighborhood and Eiht belonged to a Crip set, there were genuine street implications to the on-wax beef.Īs a guest on Questlove Supreme, Quik tells Quest’, Phonte, and the rest of the show about that night, and revealed some new details for the first time about what transpired after the show. Throughout the decade, Eiht had dissed Quik on album. To open the affair, Quik performed “Dollaz + Sense,” a scathing and physically threatening diss aimed at his crosstown rival, MC Eiht of Compton’s Most Wanted. He had begun working with the label the year prior on Above The Rim, and had started producing its fledgling R&B act, Danny Brown-who was also at the awards show.ĭJ Quik & Scarface Confirm Upcoming Collaborative Project (Video) Quik grew up in the same city of Compton that was home to Death Row’s co-founders, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, The Lady Of Rage, Sam Sneed, and Nate Dogg performed hits following 1994’s Murder Was The Case and Above The Rim soundtracks, DJ Quik joined the mix. In the aftermath of the situation, for those in attendance and who would later see the footage, it started a declaration of beef between Death Row and Bad Boy Records, and artists from the nation’s two coasts.ĭJ Quik performed with Death Row in a six-figure stage display that included a cardboard cutout of the then-incarcerated Tupac Shakur in a prison cell. The event is seismic in Rap music history, as it marks the shots heard ’round, disses from the podium at the magazine’s event. On August 3, 1995, that year’s Source Awards took place at Madison Square Gardens’ Paramount Theater.

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