In 2000, AMG released his third album, Bitch Betta Have My Money 2001. Over the next two years, AMG made guest appearances on the albums Classic 220 by 2nd II None, Doing Business As by D.B.A., Balance & Options by DJ Quik, Non Fiction by Mausberg and Heat Misers by Darkside. AMG made six guest appearances on Quik's 1998 album Rhythm-al-ism. He also made a guest appearance on the 1997 self-titled album by Flexx.ġ998-2005: Reunion with DJ Quik, Bitch Betta Have My Money 2001 and independent career ĪMG and DJ Quik reconciled in 1998. It would be his last release for Select Records. In 1997, AMG released the single "Pimp's Anthem". That same year, he made a guest appearance on Poppa LQ's album Your Entertainment, My Reality on the song "Everybody Wants 2 B A G".ĪMG released no music and made no guest appearances in 1996. The album, again produced exclusively by AMG, performed slightly worse commercially than its predecessor, only reaching #100 on the US Billboard 200. DJ Quik disses AMG on the song "Get at Me" from his 1995 album Safe + Sound.ĪMG's second album, Ballin' Outta Control, was released in 1995 on Select. The following year, he contributed the song "Butt Booty Naked" to the soundtrack for House Party 3, which was also released as a single.įrom 1992 to 1994, AMG made guest appearances on songs by DJ Quik, Sylk Smoov, Penthouse Players Clique, Domino, Vell Bakardy and Lil ½ Dead.ĪMG had a falling-out with DJ Quik in 1994.
In 1992, he was featured on the soundtrack for the film Trespass with the song "Don't Be a 304". The album was a moderate success commercially, reaching #63 on the US Billboard 200. AMG produced almost the entire album by himself, with DJ Quik serving as an additional producer on one song. That same year, he released his debut album, Bitch Betta Have My Money, which featured the singles "Jiggable Pie", "Bitch Betta Have my Money", "Vertical Joyride" and "I Wanna Be Yo Ho". His association with DJ Quik helped him secure a record deal with Select Records, who he signed to in 1991.
He is known for his sexually explicit lyrics, and most notably for songs like "Bitch Betta Have My Money" and "Jiggable Pie".ĪMG released his debut album Bitch Betta Have My Money in 1991, followed by Ballin' Outta Control four years later. He moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood in 1985. Jason Lewis (born 29 September 1970), better known by his stage name AMG, is an American rapper and record producer. It was the influential West Coast hip-hop figure’s first official release since his 2014 LP The Midnight Life.2nd II None, Bo$$, DJ Quik, The Fixxers, Hi-C, Vell Bakardy In April, Quik teamed with rapper Problem for their six-track Rosecrans EP. “Solitary mind, military mission/ I tried to get my people’s to chill, that’s my intention/ But you can’t stop the back and forth when a brother dies / And families gotta pay for funerals without a dime.” “I look around and the whole scene different/ It seems like life is different/ What’s wrong with us?/ Why do police want to kill us,” Quik raps. He also shouts out his late peers Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E.
“Someone had to speak up for the African American community on this Black Friday and I elect Me to do so.” Quik also calls out Donald Trump for being “racist” on the track. “I wrote this piece because I don’t like the tumultuous air surrounding Black People,” DJ Quik wrote of the track. DJ Quik confronts social and racial issues that weigh on the black community in his soulful new track “Black Friday,” which the OG Compton rapper released on his SoundCloud.
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