Best Hip Hop Producer Of All Time

[Mr.Pac-Man]

Quik is the name!!!!!!!!!!

of course dre is top dogg too!!

but fredwreck and battlecat are the up and coming for da west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

soopafly too!!!!!!

[Don Seer]

I wish battlecat would go back to the style he was doing in '98 or so..

[smartass]

premo.

[GangstaBoogy]

DJ Quik

[Suga Foot]

Dre

[Bomb-A®]

DRE

[M Dogg™]

Dre... and I ain't ignorite, I'll tell you why. Though Dre is prducing the same beat over and over again, it is for people like Mary J, Busta Rhymes, and other commercial artist. Dre keeps his best stuff for his people, and Dre has one more than one occassion revolutionalize the game. Dre came in with funk beats, and smoothly laced tracks for the World Wreckin' Crew. Dre also was a D.J. that actually was able to beat match a corny oldie song Mr. Post Man with some break beat, I forgot at the moment. Dre went from Funk, and going to surgery, to then being recruited to Eazy E's camp, and re-doing hip-hop beats, and making them a more high energy, more funk lased sound that became gangsta rap. Behind such classically produces tracks like Dopeman, Fuck The Police, and later 100 Miles and Runnin', Real Niggaz Don't Die, and a snick preview of G-Funk with Alwayz Into Somthing, N.W.A. was eatting thanks to Dre's hit making talent. Later Dre left Ruthless, and this left Yella as the main producer with Big Hutch, and though they were good, they were not Dre. Death Row started with the power of Dre, as I need not get into that at all. But if you noticed, Dre main greatness was the Chronic. Doggystyle was better produced to others, but was basically what worked on the Chronic over again. And most his beats were just extentions of that. Dre is lazy. After leaving Death Row, he dropped G-Funk, and made more hip-hop based sound beats. The Firm was a flop, as Dre it seemed was looking for that right sound to change the game again. Then you could kind of sense it when Eminem came out, and Role Model sounded like a blueprint for Dre2001. Later Dre did three tracks for Snoop's Top Dogg, and one was B-Please. All three tracks were by far the best on the album, and using the sound produced by Role Model, Dre found what would work. On Dre2001, he even futhered pushed the bar up, by using very little samples, and though he used one, (Next Episiod) Dre had sone it again, he revolutionized the game, challeninging other producers to become creative. Though now his sound is repeating, it's because like D.O.C. said, his a lazy muthaphukka. The only ones that have stepped up are Timberland, D.J. Quik and Hi-Tek to me. Everyone else needs to step up their game.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Dre

[UPINSMOKETOUR]

Andre Young AKA Dr. Dre

[DJ_Jay_Deee]

Dre

[Chalkz]

>= link=board=general;num=1026613402;start=0#9 date=07/14/02 at 07:59:28]There's tonnes of great producers out there, but the best for me has to be Dre. Not only is he consistent, but he manages to switch his style up every so often to show his diversity. He's created all kinds of signiture sounds to fit different era's. There was the N.W.A era, the G-funk/Death Row era and now the Aftermath sound which everyone seems to want a peice of. Dre is one of the rare artists that sell records due to pure talent and quality. Also i've never heard someone use layers as brilliantly as Dre does.

Word!!!!!!!!!!!!! Definitly D R E !

[Twentytwofifty]

I believe that Dre's introduction to his new sound from the Firm/Aftermath album sound was Kurupt's "Ask Yourself A Question" from Kuruption.  That was around Sept '98.  I can't remember any other tracks that sounded similar between The Firm Album (late '97) and that track.

[M Dogg™]

Yeah, his always worked on the sound, but it seemed like he had no confindence in it until Eminem did well on the beat.

[budsmokeronly]

The one and only D-R-E

[E. J. Rizo]

The one and only D-R-E