Top 10 NorCal producers

[bouli77]

I wanted to put Top 5 Bay Producers but then I wouldn't have been able to include BLH or Big Hollis. I know Rick Rock, Shorty B., Bosko and Funk Daddy are from Alabama, D.C. and Washington but they're heavily associated with Bay Area music so I included them in the poll. I know Zaytoven's associated with South music but he started with Bay artists so I included him too.

I know I put over 50 names but I just wanted to be accurate lol. Let me know If i missed some of your favorites.

I'm gonna put some of my personal favorites and explain why and post a song they produced for each of them. could have been others but that's the ones i'm thinking of right now

1. Khayree. Multi-instrumentalist. Peep this Young Lay unreleased song featuring 2pac, Ray luv & Mac Mall
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xJHOoCjMw2A" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/xJHOoCjMw2A</a>

2. G-Man Stan. Amazing producer and guitarist.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/FilmC3yhYJs" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/FilmC3yhYJs</a>

3. Studio Ton. Produced some of E-40's best music. Multi-instrumentalist. Favorite productions from him : B-Legit's Tryin To Make A Buck
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ml9VzaOMJJ8" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Ml9VzaOMJJ8</a>

4. Shorty B. Incredible catalog. Live musician. came up under funkadelic. My favorite musician from the Dangerous Crew.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oKNojY2BHs0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/oKNojY2BHs0</a>

5. Traxamillion. One of the best from the new generation.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com//v/7TbujLhjKpU" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com//v/7TbujLhjKpU</a>

6. Sean-T. Been doing this for nearly 10 years. incredible work ethic. still here. Good rapper as well.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/bCX_7TsalWg" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/bCX_7TsalWg</a>

7. Mike Mosley & Sam Bostic. i could have mentioned them individually but I'm running out of spots so i put em as a team.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mnfJIwdbrLM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/mnfJIwdbrLM</a>

8. T.C.. Incredible producer from San Francisco. Did stuff in the 90's for 11-5, UDI, CWH, etc.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tjp325_B0jE" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Tjp325_B0jE</a>

9. Cozmo. One of the hottest producers today. Produced songs for some south artists as well (MJG, Lil Flip, Bun B, Devin the Dude, etc.)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WsUm-P3qBk" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/3WsUm-P3qBk</a>

10. JT The bigga Figga. Maybe not the best. But the jazzy/funky productions he did in the mid 90's are some of my very favorite productions ever.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/lkItac0F25E" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/lkItac0F25E</a>

i could have also said Ant Banks, K-Lou, DJ Fresh, Johnny Z or Dwayne Wiggins but I had to make a choice.

what about you ?

[S.J]

Khayree is my number 1, all the albums he produced still sound great today. Young Black Brotha, Black N Dangerous, Forever Hustlin, Illegal Business? are all classic albums

[Sir Petey]

too many to choose


im stuck between eight

[bouli77]

Khayree is my number 1, all the albums he produced still sound great today. Young Black Brotha, Black N Dangerous, Forever Hustlin, Illegal Business? are all classic albums

that's very true. i was bumpin' Times R Getting Crazy just today (from Mac Dre's California Livin' EP) and was like damn this shit still sounds very good today, shit must have sounded sonically revolutionary when it came out in 1991.

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

too many to choose,

but
EA-Ski, Studio Ton, Ant Banks and of course Rick Rock.

and K-Lou (No Limit-stuff 

plus, Droop-E and Traxamillion ("Sick Wid It Umbrella fedifetchin" and "Bay Bridges Compilation" had crazy production)

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

How could you not mention Dan the Automator?

[Chamillitary Click]

Where is Frank Pantangeli?

[Sccit]

1.khayree
2.ant banks
3.johnny z
4.k-lou
5.brotha lynch
6.phonk beta
7.mike mosely
8.smoov-e
9.e-a ski
10.automator

really..a lot of those names are interchangeable, though. shit, coolio, tone capone, sean-t, jt, rick rock, bosko, etc. are all just as great as the names on my list...




and yea, smoov-e, del, sicx, and dan the automator should all be on ur poll, homie.

[bouli77]

How could you not mention Dan the Automator?

good call lol, i tried to think of as many producers as possible but i knew i was going to leave some big ones out... he should of course be among the first names that come to people's mind but that's not the type of rap i listen to very often hence my forgetting to mention him. i know of smoov-e through dre dog but i never really listened to any of his stuff and didn't know he was a producer as well, my bad.

[Sir Petey]

too many niche producers to be throwing everybodys guilty pleasures on here.

tone capone ant banks mosely khyree ea ski studio tone shock g are the best on your list.

[Dre-Day]

paris

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

sicx

no, the child molestor should not be mentioned

[Sccit]

How could you not mention Dan the Automator?

good call lol, i tried to think of as many producers as possible but i knew i was going to leave some big ones out... he should of course be among the first names that come to people's mind but that's not the type of rap i listen to very often hence my forgetting to mention him. i know of smoov-e through dre dog but i never really listened to any of his stuff and didn't know he was a producer as well, my bad.

yea...smoov is actually more of a producer than he is a rapper. he's produced for and rapped with a lota norcal legends, u should check his catalogue,

[Sccit]

sicx

no, the child molestor should not be mentioned

i thought u liked real rappers...dont get more real than sicx LOL