Aftermath & Shady Records aint no fuckin dream team...

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

^This thread is about the quality of their music,I already stated in my first & later posts that they sell,right???

wow it was about time for another one of these threads !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you can produce/mc/engineer/mix/whatever an album better than any of those, then put it together & let us hear it

Well currently Im not makin any albums,that is not my proffesion but it is their's.lmao at your argument.

[G funker]

Dope:
The Documentary (Aftermath / G-Unit)
Cheers (Shady Records)
Get Rich Or Die Tryin (Aftermath / Shady Records)
Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath)
2001 (Aftermath)
Slim Shady LP (Aftermath)
8Mile Soundtrack                   
Shady / Aftermath Sampler     
The Wash Soundtrack           
The Firm - The Album             
Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath

Reasonable:
Truthfully Speaking (Aftermath)
The Eminem Show (Aftermath)
Devil's Night (Shady Records)
More 8Mile Soundtrack            -


Wack:
The Massacre (Aftermath / Shady Records)
Encore (Aftermath)
D12 World (Shady Records)

[Okka]

To me "2001" is a fuckin classic, my favorite album of all times, "The Documentary" is fuckin dope and "Cheers" is too, and even the "Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath" had fuckin dope tracks in it..

All Aftermath/Shady releases do have a few good tracks on them, but i agree that alot of them albums are WACK

[Lil Jay]

weve been preprogrammed to buy there shit

100%

Regardless what Dre does, every beat is "Amazing" to some of these kids. Even the weakest beat to them is "Classic." Mindless drones!!!

Aint that tha truth....and btw..."2001" aint no classic...groundbreaking in a sense but classic naw...there are a few weak azz tracks on there.

so what do you consider a classic?

[Brazemac]

The Game DOcumentary is classic
2001 classic
slim shady lp classic
and get rich or die trying made 50 cent as big as he is today.

most of the other albums you named is just eminem executive produced and on shady records.

[acbaylove]

I'm not allowed to talk bad about rappers, people's feelings get hurt. 

In this case you can!

[Leggy Hendrix]

Listened once? A numerous times?

i expected that u dont know how to read.. thats why i made sure to type MOSTLY in caps...but what can i say.. ignorance is ignorance

LOL. And Roc is MOSTLY in house production too. So yea, I guess ignorance really is ignorance.

last i checked the album that came from roc-afella with most inhouse production was.. blueprint i might be wrong.. but i highly doubt there is any roc album that had more than 6 or7 in house beats.. thats outta 14-18 trax
on the other hand ppl like em,dre and game have mostly in house production
50 for instance gets from ppl like needlz and the no name producers shit... they r not in house but no one buys their shit but 50

the other extreme is dip set, their album had 11-12 heatmakerz beats and 2 just blaze beats.. thats it
cam's album had 2 kanye beats and a just blaze one, thats it the rest was heat makers and others

im with SGV on this one...i fail to see what difference it makes to the quality of an album whether the producers were in-house or not...i dont even know what the point is that your trying to make?  that sticking to in-house production makes your albums better?

[Don Seer]

as an argument for 'why' the label is better the inhouse thing is BS.


however.. from interscopes perspective in-house producers = cheaper albums = bigger profits...

the thing is dre and eminem produce (ok eminem is debatable lol) .. jay-z doesnt....


Game used a grip of different producers and came out with a rounded sounding album whcih is hard to acheive with so many metaphorical cooks baking his pie

[acbaylove]

The Game DOcumentary is classic
2001 classic
slim shady lp classic
and get rich or die trying made 50 cent as big as he is today.

most of the other albums you named is just eminem executive produced and on shady records.

You know what? I was watching WELCOME 2 DEATH ROW yesterday. At one point, there's an executive producer (i dont remember who he was) who said: "It's a known fact that in the music business, if you make 3 great albums out of 10 you're considered a genious". Aftermath/Shady probably did 3 good albums. I dunno if you can call them "classics", but that's not even the point. 3 good albums for sure. The fact is that Dre left Death Row. There, every album they released before Pac's death was been a CLASSIC album. No wack albums at all. You know what i mean? Death Row back in the day = classic album guaranteed. Aftermath/Shady = ? (no). That's the only difference, imo. Death Row never released a "THE MASSACRE" album. You know what i mean? Or a D12 album. Or shit like that. Death Row was quality. Was platinum. Was classic. Aftermath/Shady is 1 good album out of 4. Still respectful, but not on the same level.

[mauzip]

^^that's real

[Don Seer]

it is..

but like i pointed out before... Dre hasn't got his fingers all over every shady/g-unit release

break it back down to a list of  albums dre exec produced and that came out on aftermath (post shake up)


You'll see Dre's record stands..

[Elevz]

^^ That's the problem, Dre doesn't have time anymore to completely focus on ONE album at a time. That's what's lacking about his current situation: he's too popular so he's busy all over the industry producing songs, instead of focussing on releasing classics on his own label.

[Leggy Hendrix]

^^but he aint done that much outside work recently...

i think the problem is more to do with the fact that they keep signing artists and so he aint concentrating on solo work like he should be

[notorious^q8I]

^^ this is kinda true
he couldn'teven complete game's album he did his work in the summer and let 50 finish off the album..... which caused alot of drama
he doesnt work with eminem any more
to be honest i dunno who is dre busy with
he doesnt work with em
he worked a bit with game
doesnt work alot with 50
i doubt he put alotta work to busta's album.. cause busta is bigand old enuff to do his album...
and i highly doubt he been workin on detox all that time
i really dunno, maybe he just chillin and countin his money

[Larrabee]

Slim Shady LP ( not one of my personal faves, but it's impact can't be denied, as it intro'd Em to the masses )
2001 ( classic without a doubt \ one of the best produced albums ever )
M. Mathers LP ( another classic, the one they're going to remember Em for when he's gone )
Devils Night ( slept on album, imo...production is dope and it's got some sick material )
Wash Sountrack ( a mixed bag, a few diamonds in it..."The Wash" is a 5\5 track )
Eminem Show ( I can see why people dog on it, but it was a great album imo. Contains a few 5\5 songs )
Truthfully Speaking ( decent for what it was worth )
8 Mile Soundtrack ( quite a few dope tracks here, decent release, "Lose Yourself" speaks for itself )
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ( overrated in some ways, but it's impact is always a factor...50 came correct on most songs )
Cheers ( dope album, only a couple of fillers )
Beg For Mercy ( another mixed bag...a few bangers )
D12 World ( see "Beg For Mercy" )
Hunger For More ( tight album, production is great except for a few cuts, but nothing mind blowing )
Straight Outta Cashville ( far from a weak release, but still nothing too great. )
Encore ( Em's worst album, but there are a few standouts here & there. Another mixed bag )
The Documentary ( I can't front on this, Game delivered the best album in the last several years. Production was strong as fuck... )
The Massacre ( The beats were banging for the most part, a few dope cuts, but falls short of anything classic )

Personally, I think that Aftermath & Shady do deliver the goods most of the time, but they rarely hit one outta the park. Albums range from decent to dope to classic, but the quality of production is what puts them over the top, plus having Dre, Em & 50 involved gaurantees sales...anyone's take, I guess. I'm just waiting for "Detox", fuck another Em or 50 release, I'm not really anticipating any future album put out by the label too much, except for Dre's.