Who's the best rap producer ever?

danger mouse

arf

Can't see beyond Eminem for this one.

(Real talk: voted for Pete Rock because I'm corny)

id really love to say the rza but i cant help but remember how tepid his soundtrack work is. tim/neptunes face off for sheer consistant quality levels

I'd be surprised if this went to anybody other than Dre or Premo.

The Bomb Squad.

TIMBOOOOOOOO

The Bomb Squad
(x-post!)

gdamn we need ranking polls

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marley marl

Premier!

swizz beatz

no Beatnuts, Beatminerz or Paul C?

Beatminerz is there, under "Da Beatminerz". But I should've included Beatnuts, sorry about forgetting them.

Cripes, don't make me choose between the Bomb Squad and Prince Paul...ok, Bomb Squad.

id really love to say the rza but i cant help but remember how tepid his soundtrack work is. tim/neptunes face off for sheer consistant quality levels

-- straight, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

ultimate ilm answer

i actually voted for dj quik

also wtf tuomas including stoup but not the beatnuts

i actually voted for dj quik

-- deej, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:39 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

posts very much in character

there are a bunch of dudes missing from this actually
wheres mike dean? pimp c? toomp? the hitmen? etc etc

was gonna say xp

Note that this is about American rap only, because I'm not that knowledgeable with rap from other countries.

Lewis Parker robbed again.

Lewis Parker can lose.

this is tough Bomb Squad vs. Marley Marl vs. Prince Paul in a draw

Lewis Parker can lose.

Who will get that reference? (Great show, btw.)

The Bomb Squad very very VERY easily.

me voting quik is nowhere near as predictable as pipecock voting dilla

mmm, jay dee for me followed by madlib or pete rock.

Man, remember in the three years before J Dilla died when absolutely nobody gave a shit about him? Good times.

I mean, seriously, all this Dilla-stanning is the hip-hop version of "Bradley Norwood was the greatest poet of his generation"

Nowell. Whatever.

well that was also before he released 'donuts,' hip-hop's 'a love supreme'

Who can forget the fine cuts he laced on that Amp Fiddler album?

dont forget his classic cuts with Frank n Dank, the EPMD of the new millenium

j dilla was truly rap music's bruce springsteen

http://www.cratekings.com/store/images/P/dilla350.jpg

Burst out in tears when I saw this at my local record store.

there are a bunch of dudes missing from this actually
wheres mike dean? pimp c? toomp? the hitmen? etc etc

-- deej, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:42 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Are you really pissed that you can't vote for Mike Dean over, like, Marley and Premier or do you just want to point out that you are familiar with the Odd Squad album?

Whre the hell is Kurtis Mantronik?

this is really just too tough, I'm tempted to just vote for the oldest guy on the list, or the one with the longest career/biggest discog (and I'm not really a Dr. Dre fan at all), wouldn't even think about voting for anyone who peaked later than 2000 like Toomp.

Are you really pissed that you can't vote for Mike Dean over, like, Marley and Premier or do you just want to point out that you are familiar with the Odd Squad album?

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:18 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

are you just trying to point out that you know bullshit about rap a lot?

i mean i wouldnt have brought this shit up if el-p, eminemn and mike ladd werent included

the uparalleled contributions of Mike Dean

Man, remember in the three years before J Dilla died when absolutely nobody gave a shit about him? Good times.

heh, dom. serious?

zumzumzum, really? mantronix?

mike ladd lol

i almost wanna vote for Cold 187um cuz i think it's awesome he's on the list and Above the Law is def. underrated.

Donuts is totally boring wtf people

I think I listened to it once and then ditched it

I voted Erick Sermon, just cuz he's excelled in a few different style and different eras from the early EPMD stuff to like "Crossover" and Redman thick funk stuff is a pretty big swing. also i've been listening to the first couple EPMD a lot lately and i'm starting to think they are my 2 fav hip hop records ever

although if premier does worse than expected cuz everyone wants to pick a "sleeper" i'm gonna feel bad : (

it means that they are very "white people approved". there is nothing wrong with either of them, but in a poll amongst non-white hiphop fans i sincerely doubt they would even be top 10.

-- pipecock, Friday, March 7, 2008 12:42 AM (1 hour ago)

dude, what could possibly be whiter than fucking a Volvo?

no way, absolutely not. you guys really have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

-- pipecock, Friday, March 7, 2008 1:42 AM

I am reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally curious what evidence you have for this beyond the antedotal.

no way, absolutely not. you guys really have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

-- pipecock, Thursday, March 6, 2008 7:42 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

tell me more about what black people like, pipecock.

what do black people think about portabello burgers? i just ate a delicious one, but i'm curious if thats a 'white people approved' sandwich that black people wouldn't even include in their top ten sandwiches

I want to hear pincock's TOP TEN HIP HOP PRODUCER IF ONLY BLACK PEOPLE VOTES now. Go on Kreskin school us.

pipecock wdyll
http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/troll.jpg

^^is that a white ppl doll?

black people love mannie fresh / white people pay their bills on time

i bet the best rap producers aren't known. Blackout is better

oH-- TIMBALAND

don;t get it twizted

This list is pretty incomplete. Where's Diamond D, Paul C, cedgee, 45 king?

why diamond d not on soulseek

.....^mark anyways

45 king?!

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this poll sucks. all your polls shouold burn

this poll sucks. a

thread for when your poll gets hardsonned

Wow, Prefuse 73 isn't even on the list. Or Blockhead for that matter :(

Doen't matter. Prefuse, Nujabes, Fat Jon, or Nomak alone have all of them completely out-classed hands down anyway.

hahahahahahahaha oh wait stfu you kidding

lololololol

lEik, I'm ttoaly not kidding! Lolol10Lπ.33/12paulvolker.gif

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amazoing

What happened to this thread?!

pipecock found it

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post muggs mattereal

hey that skull has some organs in it

weigh in, brother tuomas!

on the question of organs in skulls never showing up in finn's top ten lists

th trx

I see tha Mike E. Clark, legendary producer of Insane Clown Posse, has been left off of this poll.

g-z kozinski

p-p-p-p-p-p-premier, premier

-- dmr, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:06 PM

This list is pretty incomplete. Where's Diamond D, Paul C, cedgee, 45 king?

-- breadmaster, Friday, March 7, 2008 4:26 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^didn't notice these but OTM

http://a248.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_f7ab63f002ab9661dbea15d23ab5e6bf.jpg

it means that they are very "white people approved". there is nothing wrong with either of them, but in a poll amongst non-white hiphop fans i sincerely doubt they would even be top 10.

-- pipecock, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:42 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

lolol is that our boy?

It's either that or he's keeping pictures of that dude from Bowling For Soup on his Myspace

ever...

Don't feel like reading through the whole post, but what is the big fucking controversy? RZA is the greatest Hip-Hop producer of all time, hands down. I wish I'd have seen this poll so I could have voted for him and increased his margin of victory.

guhh

I voted Prince Paul, the skitmaster.

"Confessions of a Beat Junkie" is so so good

http://spitler.yernothin.com/beatjunkie.mp3

i guess this thread wouldn't have been explosive enough if it had been your "favorite" rap producers. i don't feel at all qualified to vote on "the best", but if i would have seen this poll, i would have voted for either premiere or beatnuts.

btw who produced 1-9-9-9 with sadat x and common? that is one of my favorite produced rap songs ever.

now of course i wish i woulda voted premo

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:42 (3 weeks ago)

I warned you all up-thread.

That said, if I hadn't voted for Premier I would have voted for RZA...

Premo's solid, but let's face it. He's made the same beat 2,000 times over. Holla.