DJ Quik Los Angeles (LA) Tickets, Pershing Square, 12 Jul 2026

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532 South Olive Street, 90013, Los Angeles (LA), CA, US

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Doors open: 15:00

Price: US $20.00

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Kurupt biography

First and foremost Kurupt is an American hip-hop artist, but he is also an actor, an entrepreneur, and formerly an Executive Vice President of Death Row Records. In addition to his career as a solo rap artist he is one half of the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound.

Kurupt was born Ricardo Emmanuel Brown on 23 November 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Brown grew up in Hawthorne, California, US and though he got his career start in the West Coast, he often considers himself an affiliate of the Philadelphia rap scene. Brown met and befriended Snoop Dogg while he was living in Hawthorne. This relationship led to his signing on Death Row Records.

Brown made his rapping debut on Dr. Dre’s landmark album “The Chronic”. He contributed verses to three of the album’s tracks: “Lyrical Gangbang”, “Stranded on Death Row”, and “Bitches Ain’t Shit”. Other contributors on the album included Lady of Rage, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, RBX, and Daz Dillinger, the latter of which formed the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound with Kurupt. The Dogg Pound extensively assisted Snopp Dogg on his studio debut “Doggystyle”, being featured on two of the tracks and contributing a song of their own “For All My Niggaz & Bitches”.

On 31 October 1995 Tha Dogg pound released their studio debut “Dogg Food”. The album was considered one of the most critically and commercially successful albums to come out through Death Row (of course with the exception of Snoop, Dre, and Tupac releases). It went on the sell over 2 million units and unsurprisingly featured a handful of Death Row’s artists such as The Lady of Rage, Tray Deee, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg.

Many artist started to leave Death Row Records partially due to CEO Suge Knight’s overbearing demands. Even more left after Tupac’s murder in 1996, one of the first to leave was Kurupt. Kurupt went on to sign a record contract with A&M and later developed his own imprint known as Antra records. In 1998 Kurupt released his studio debut “Kuruption!”. Though Daz Dillinger made only a small appearance on Kurupt’s studio debut he did play a big role in producing Kurupt’s 1999 follow up “Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha”.

Kurupt made a brief detour in his solo career to form the rap collective The HRSMN alongside Rass Kass, Killah Priest (Wu-Tang Clan), and Canibus. Though the group showed much promise they only released a spattering of tracks. Shortly there after Kurrupt revived his partnership with Daz and released their 3rd studio album “Dillinger & Young Gotti” in 2001; however, for this release the group’s name was changed to DGP (Dogg Pound Gangstaz) considering Death Row owned the rights to the duo’s original name.

Also that year Kurupt put out his 3rd studio album “Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey”. This was Kurupt’s last release on Antra before starting his second term on Death Row. Kurupt’s re-assimilation to Death Row Records has been attributed as the cause of him severing his ties with Daz, who was still on bad terms with the label. Kurupt assumed the role of the label’s vice president and began mentoring other artists on the roster in addition to producing his own albums. His next studio LP “Against the Grain” came out on 23 August 2005. two years later Kurupt released his 10 track EP, which was also entitled “Against the Grain” and likewise featured some of the same songs.

Kurupt and Daz reconciled their differences and in 2005 reformed Tha Dogg Pound for the second time. They started putting out releases profusely in the mid 2000’s: “Dillinger & Young Gotti II: The Saga Continuez” (2005), “Cali iz Active” (2006), “Dogg Chit” (2007). In 2008 Kurupt put out his first joint album release with his brother Roscoe entitled “The Frank and Jess Story”. In 2010 he issued his 6th studio album “Streetlights”.

Kurupt still continues to collaborate with his old friends like Snoop Dogg and Daz, but also makes guest appearances on the album’s of many up and coming independent artists. Kurupt is recognized as one of the most highly influential rappers on the West Coast and has been cited as a major source of inspiration by acclaimed hip-hop artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Eminem.

Live reviews

Watching a DJ who is multi-talented and can perform self written lyrics, play multiple instruments, and DJ is something very rare. The performance that DJ Quik gave was one like I’d never seen before. He opened the set behind decks, and blasted out a couple of remixes, and some of his own mixes, before moving downstage to the mictophone setup.
He picked up the microphone and opened his vocal set with Pitch In on a Party, which had everyone singing along and dancing straight away. The band behind him were tight, and playing his complex riffs with ease and skill. He played several tracks form both The Book of David, and The Midnight Life, which went down really well. In a live performance, it’s easier to discern the lyrics that the artist is singing, especially being as close as I was to the front. For me, this made the concert even more exciting, enabling me to engage with Quik’s material more easily.
The talent that he showcased was incredible, switching from complicated rhythmic vocals, to the synth , and keys, and occasionally revisiting the turn tables. He was also great at getting the audience going and enthusiastic. He was encouraging everyone to sing along, and even held the microphone out occasionally. It was an epic evening, and I’d love to see him again.

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yazhow

It’s probably fair to say that he’s by no means the biggest name in hip hop, but that certainly doesn’t mean that there are many people who could tell you about the nineties in the genre any more reliably than Kurupt; this is a man who has been there and seen everything, from being vice-president of Death Row Records to being part of Snoop Dogg’s rap collective Tha Dogg Pound. Of course, he’s also a solo artist in his own right, and on top of six records under his own name, he can also count his incendiary live shows as being amongst his major achievements as an artist. His unusual flow is the centrepoint when he plays live; it’s rich, detailed, but deceptively quick - and he can step up on stage with minimal backing - perhaps just a DJ dropping beats - and still command the attention of a feverish crowd standing alone, as well as when he partakes in the occasionsl Dogg Pound reunion. A nineties icon? Probably not, but certainly a man who earned his hip hop credibility the hard way.

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Joeg_67

Tha Luniz Show is phenomenal!!!! The New Movie #US directed by Jordan Peele, is a MASTERPIECE!!!! THE LUNIZ HIT SONG "I GOT 5 ON IT!" Is a vocal point of the movie. And, their NEW MUSIC IS, FIRE!!!!!

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stone-ramsey

The thing that impressed me the most seeing Suga Free live was the way that he interacted with the audience, cracking jokes, encouraging us to join in, and thanking us humbly for our support of his music. His career before he went solo was a hip hop duo with DJ Quick, and it was an awesome surprise to see that Quick was performing with Suga Free when I saw him recently. Their chemistry is great, and the way that they were bouncing their energy off of each other made us all in the crowd really energised and ready to dance.
He opened with the title track from his new album The Resurrection which is a great collection of charismatic lyrics, with a conversational style to the delivery. It was exciting to hear it performed live as it’s only just been released, and the audience were going mad for it. Free took time to teach us little hooks and tags from the songs, and shouted out lines of lyrics for everyone to repeat. It was really cool to get involved to that extent, and the way that we were all dancing around seemed to give them both more energy in their performance, as they played for over 2 hours, and maintained their energy throughout the show.
They played from some of their collaborations, as well as Free having Quick support him on tracks from Hi Power Pimpin, and Sunday School, as well as the new album. They played a couple of covers and remixes too which had the audience singing along and loving the atmosphere. It was an amazing set!

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