The Best Hip-Hop Producer Alive, Every Year Since 1979

[CarlosDelgothoes]

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1979: SYLVIA ROBINSON
1980: ROCKY FORD AND J.B. MOORE
1981: PUMPKIN/PUMPKIN AND FRIENDS
1982: ARTHUR BAKER
1983: LARRY SMITH
1984: LARRY SMITH
1985: RICK RUBIN
1986: RICK RUBIN
1987: CED GEE
1988: MARLEY MARL
1989: PRINCE PAUL
1990: THE BOMB SQUAD
1991: DJ QUIK
1992: DR. DRE
1993: RZA
1994: EASY MO BEE
1995: RZA
1996: ORGANIZED NOIZE
1997: THE HITMEN
1998: BEATS BY THE POUND
1999: DR. DRE
2000: EARTHTONE III
2001: KANYE WEST
2002: THE NEPTUNES
2003: LIL JON
2004: KANYE WEST
2005: KANYE WEST
2006: TOOMP
2007: KANYE WEST
2008: DRUMMA BOY
2009: NOAH “40” SHEBIB
2010: LEX LUGER
2011: NOAH “40” SHEBIB
2012: MIKE WILL MADE-IT
2013: KANYE WEST
2014: MIKE WILL MADE-IT
2015: METRO BOOMIN
2016: METRO BOOMIN
2017: NO I.D.

[blastmaster]

Good to see Ced Gee make it.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

interesting that Primo and Pete Rock didn't make the list. Both have strong cases for 94 although I'm not mad at all Mo Bee took it. Just curious given the level of the rep/influence involved.

Primo probably shoulda took 96 over Organized Noise. Reasonable Doubt, Firing Squad, Wrath of the Math plus I Gave You Power. What did ON do besides half of ATLiens?

Also lol@BBTP getting 1998. I understand they were everywhere that year, but 99% of the shit was trash. As loathe as I am to admit, it should've been Swizz Beats. He owned the sound.

[Kid That's Lifeless]

If it's not BBTP, then it shoulda been Mannie Fresh before Swizz.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

If it's not BBTP, then it shoulda been Mannie Fresh before Swizz.

nah, Mannie's year was 99. Think about how after Swizz dropped in 98 everyone started copying that god awful casio beat shit. He was super influential, but mostly trash. Just slightly less trash than BBTP

[blastmaster]

Beats By The Pound was trash? News to me. Swizz killed shit too, but don’t diminish the accomplishments of those boys.

98 was insane for KLC and Beats By The Bound. Amazingly produced albums for Snoop, Mac, Fiend, Young Bleed, Soulja Slim, P, Mystikal, Mia X, C-Murder. All in 98.

It Ain’t My Fault >

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Amazingly produced albums for Snoop, Mac, Fiend, Young Bleed, Soulja Slim, P, Mystikal, Mia X, C-Murder.

Out of all the rap label 'sounds' (Death Row, Ruff Ryders, Cash Money etc), No Limit's was the worst. Fuck that Snoop album in particular.

[blastmaster]

Don’t know what to tell ya. Go back bad listen to that Young Bleed album or a different end of the spectrum, the Mac album. The production is fantastic. I am aware that it’s intetent-nerd-cool to shit on them, but it is without merit.

[step one]

No Premier for 94 is insane

Hard To Earn
Sun Rises In The East
NY State Of Mind/Memory Lane/Represent
Unbelievable
Supastar
Next Level remix
Shit Is Real remix

I know these lists are clickbait compiled in a lunch break but come the fuck on.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Don’t know what to tell ya. Go back bad listen to that Young Bleed album or a different end of the spectrum, the Mac album. The production is fantastic. I am aware that it’s intetent-nerd-cool to shit on them, but it is without merit.

way more internet trendy revitalist to go back to regional southern albums and act like they were classics but whatevzzzzzzz

No Premier for 94 is insane

What was Mo Bee's 94?

half of Ready to Die
Flava in Your Ear
Get Down
Str8 Ballin
??

Now that I'm thinking about it, a lot of the stuff i thought he did in 94 was actually 95 re: Busta, 2Pac, Lost Boyz etc

[Spartan]

Expected to see Pete Rock, Primo, Timbaland and Just Blaze somewhere in there.

[ric]

Expected to see Pete Rock, Primo, Timbaland and Just Blaze somewhere in there.

Right. List is clickbait. Straight up.
List makes a more interesting message board discussion than article for internet if that makes sense

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Re: 1998/No Limit, Happy Perez did most of the beats on Young Bleed's first album not Beats By The Pound.

Also, it's hard not to think BBTP kinda fucked the How Ya Do Dat beat up once you go back and hear Perez's o.g beat on Bleed's solo version.

[the dead poet]

To be fair, Happy Perez is the real driving force behind Young Bleeds first album. Which is one of my favorite produced albums ever. KLC sprinkled some shit in....but there's a reason it doesn't sound anything like those No Limit albums from that era.

EDIT ^ Just saw someone posted about Happy Perez and Young Bleed. So word.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

No Premier for 94 is insane

Hard To Earn
Sun Rises In The East
NY State Of Mind/Memory Lane/Represent
Unbelievable
Supastar
Next Level remix
Shit Is Real remix

I know these lists are clickbait compiled in a lunch break but come the fuck on.

agreed. even biggie would agree.

[Blockhead]

No timbaland in there is a travesty but, also, who tf is Toomp? like, I legit have never read or heard that name anywhere.

[the dead poet]

No timbaland in there is a travesty but, also, who tf is Toomp? like, I legit have never read or heard that name anywhere.

You're breaking my heart bro.

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[I Smell Like Un Kasa]

Complex is complete horse shit. I know not to click on their trash. Now cipher.

[Employee]

[Mindbender Futurama]

Expected to see Pete Rock, Primo, Timbaland and Just Blaze somewhere in there.

yeah. LOLLLL that DJ Premier isn't on this list once but Kanye West is on it FIVE TIMES
and Metro Boomin on it twice and no Pete Rock
Just Blaze should have one of those Kanye slots, no question
Timbaland's work with Aaliyah is better than almost ANYTHING in rap and is production-of-the-decade-status, just saying

If it's not BBTP, then it shoulda been Mannie Fresh before Swizz.

nah, Mannie's year was 99. Think about how after Swizz dropped in 98 everyone started copying that god awful casio beat shit. He was super influential, but mostly trash. Just slightly less trash than BBTP

THE FACTS MACHINE has sent us informations

I JUST cursed out Swizz Beats in some "who killed the 90's?" conversation

Don’t know what to tell ya. Go back bad listen to that Young Bleed album or a different end of the spectrum, the Mac album. The production is fantastic. I am aware that it’s intetent-nerd-cool to shit on them, but it is without merit.

I will defend my cassette copy of Young Bleed's "My Balls and My Word" for DAYS UPON DAYS.

I used to hate on BBTP/Master P/No Limit... then I discovered Silkk the Shocker was actually pretty ill, then I found out bout Young Bleed, who did southern gentlemen and a gangsta street-hop correctly

shit is rock solid fyahballz dutty souf rap

No timbaland in there is a travesty but, also, who tf is Toomp? like, I legit have never read or heard that name anywhere.

BRUH, you don't know Toomp?

If I only fucked with ONE song of his, I'd remember him foreverrrrr: "T.I.: WHATCHU KNOW ABOUT THAT"

Give me FIFTEEN FEET OF SPACE when that beat drops in the club. I'M GOING HAMMMMM, no JON

[Mindbender Futurama]

1988: MARLEY MARL
1989: PRINCE PAUL
1990: THE BOMB SQUAD
1991: DJ QUIK
1992: DR. DRE
1993: RZA

see, this is pretty bulletproof logic

THEN THEY GO

like props to Easy Mo Bee forever. BUT NO PREMIER IN 94

'Hard To Earn' is my favorite production era of DJ Premier in Gangstarr, and Jeru was in 94. KICK IN THE DOOR AND GIVE PREEMO HIS GOD DAMN BEATMAKER OF THE YEAR CROWN NOW

[Blockhead]

No timbaland in there is a travesty but, also, who tf is Toomp? like, I legit have never read or heard that name anywhere.

You're breaking my heart bro.

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Ahhhh, obviously I know a bunch of the songs he made. Never knew who made them. Can't say I was reading many liner notes in 2006. Definitely a lot of dope shit but I'mma still throw a at him ever being the best producer of any year.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

The Chronic dropped not long before Xmas 1992

Doggystyle dropped less than a year later in late 1993

Thus, Dr. Dre was empirically the best producer of 1993.

[step one]

^^^
This is the thing. 36 Chambers dropped late 93 so all RZA had prior to that was the first 12"

The Chronic & Doggystyle held down 93 into mid 94 when the Above The Rim soundtrack came out.

If Dre takes 93 then you have room for Pete Rock in 92

[aeokq]

I've only heard of two of the producers after 2003.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

The Chronic dropped not long before Xmas 1992

[Yohan]

I've only heard of two of the producers after 2003.

Weird flex but ok.

[blastmaster]

I've only heard of two of the producers after 2003.

Weird flex but ok.

[Mindbender Futurama]

The Chronic dropped not long before Xmas 1992

ohhhh maaaaan Christmas came EARLY this year

I will NEVER stop loving Dr. Dre's infatuation with Ja-fakin' accents. It just shows that he misses The DOC so very much.

[aeokq]

I've only heard of two of the producers after 2003.

Weird flex but ok.

I'm not flexing, fuck does that mean anyway. I've just genuinely never heard of any of those dudes other than Kanye and No I.D. That Noah Shebib name looks kinda familiar. I'm assuming they are mainstream producers.