Kurupt

Quik's Blaqkout is a collaboration with Dogg Pound emcee Kurupt. With its screeching harmonics and laconic funk, "Cream" is luxurious in the funkiest way possible. Kurupt and Quik generally rhyme about sex, drink, haters and weed, and, on an album like this, that's not that big of a liability. After all, this is a fun, summery album (check out the 808, ET bounce of "Jupiter's Critic and the Mind of Mars"), and it comes highly recommended.