The legend in the neighborhood was that the "Zip" didn’t just refer to a compressed file—which was a futuristic concept back then—but to the "Zip" of the high-end cables Quik used to bridge the gap between street funk and jazz fusion.
In the pantheon of West Coast hip-hop, certain albums transcend their era to become textbooks on production. Dr. Dre has The Chronic . Snoop has Doggystyle . But for the connoisseur who craves complexity , jazz theory , and g-funk mastery , there is only and his 1998 magnum opus: Rhythm-Al-Ism . DJ Quik- Rhythm-Al-Ism full album zip