Quik Is the Name

Quik Is the Name is the debut studio album by American hip hop artist and producer DJ Quik, released by Profile Records on January 15, 1991. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1990. Production was mainly handled by DJ Quik along with his executive producers Courtney Branch and Tracy Kendrick. Recording sessions took place between throughout 1990 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $30,000. The album debuted at number twenty-nine on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 50,000 copies in its first week in the United States. The album was certified Gold four months after its release on May 30, 1991 and Platinum four years later on July 26, 1995. To date the album has sold over 1,068,203 copies in United States. Quik is the Name is seen by many as one of the most influential hip hop albums of the 1990s and one of the albums that defined the G-funk sound for years to come.