''Trauma'' is the seventh album by rapper/producer

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. It was released in 2005 and sold 100,000 copies through his own independent label Mad Science Records. The album debuted at number forty three on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with 24,000 copies sold in its first-week.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1510011/kanye-west-falls-champ-paul-wall.jhtml Kanye West Falls To Peoples Champ Paul Wall - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com An all

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version of the album was also released.

Background

Tha album was originally supposed to be released in March 2005 on

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, but he changed labels and got a distribution deal with

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.http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/wc2kdjquik05/ DJ Quik spoke on the album with an interview with DubCNN and said "It's the dopest album I've ever done. It's better than "

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", it's a classic. It's hot, it's a new sound. I got the best collaborations, I got some real talented people. I made everybody sound the same, it's not like

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sounds better than

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. It's not like that, it's a uniform record. Every record goes into the next record the right way. It's like a movie, it's not even like an album. It's real visual, you can see it and you can feel it. It's recorded real well, I used a lot of real new equipment. And I worked with some of the best musicians on the planet. So it's a unstoppable record, and I look forward to send all these fuckin producers back to the drawing board. And I'm the shit, I think I'm the best right now. Matter of fact, when you hear "Trauma", you gonna think I'm the best too".

Critical response

Trauma received mixed reviews from contemporary

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gave the album 3.5/5 stars and wrote DJ Quik is the essence of West Coast hip-hop, having been there from the early days when Compton was asserting itself as the voice of rap as the 1980s bled into the '90s, and Trauma, the rapper/producer's seventh album and first in three years, finds Quik as relevant and potent in both lyrics and beats as when he dropped

. Never flashy, Quik finds art in simplicity, as with the laid-back groove of "Black Mercedes," and the rapid-fire spitting about relationships and distractions on "Catch 22." Soren Baker of the

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wrote that On his seventh album, Quik enhances both his musicianship and his rapping, updating his sound by focusing on an airy, crisp production style that tones down the funk backbone and draws attention to the groove-driven guitar, horn, drum and turntable work that propels the sonic side of the album.

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number forty three on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with first-week sales of 24,000 copies in the United States. It also entered at number nine on ''

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, number thirteen on

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and number one on

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. As of January 31, 2006 the album has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits for ''Trauma'' adapted from liner notes. * John Allis - Engineer * AMG - Primary Artist *

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- Guest Artist, Primary Artist * Robert Bacon - Guitar, Horn *

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- Background Vocals * David Blake - Composer * Keith Boskonvich - Background Vocals * Gina Brucato - Assistant *

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- Guest Artist, Primary Artist * Erik "Baby Jesus" Coomes - Bass, Guitar *

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- Drums, Percussion * DJ Coke-E - Scratching *

- Primary Artist *

- Guest Artist, Primary Artist * Dave Foreman - Guitar * The Game - Primary Artist * Faryal Ganjehei - Stylist *

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- Mastering * Keith Gretlein - Engineer *

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- Mastering * Nathaniel Hale - Composer * T.I. - Composer * Willie Hudspeth - Background Vocals *

- Guest Artist, Primary Artist * JellyRoll - Piano *

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- Guest Artist, Primary Artist *

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- Guest Artist, Primary Artist * Midwestern Gluryslappers - Handclaps *

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- Horn * Cornelius Mims - Bass, Strings *

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- Composer * Jaime Sickora - Engineer * Adam Shmeans Smirnoff - Guitar * T.I. - Guest Artist, Primary Artist * Mark Valentine - Engineer * German Villacorta - Engineer

Charts

References

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