It was modified to include the letter Q to represent DJ Quik and the letter K to represent Kurupt. The inspiration for the name of the album was taken from the Method Man & Redman collaborative albums Blackout! and Blackout! 2 since this was also a collaboration album. The rapper-producer-musician-entrepreneur wanted to do a full-length album with Kurupt, the Dogg Pound member and Snoop Dogg affiliated-rapper he’d known since Death Row Records’ mid-1990s heyday and had worked with sparingly over the years. While putting the finishing touches on Snoop Dogg’s acclaimed Ego Trippin album in early 2008, DJ Quik had an idea. The album debuted at #61 on the Billboard 200, selling 10,000 copies its first week. Blaqkout (stylized as ' BlaQKout') is a collaboration album by rapper/ record producer DJ Quik and rapper Kurupt.