Well we've had tournaments for best songs in each region and an overall best rap album ever tournament so why not a best producer tournament. How we are going to do this is that I want everyone to name there top 5 producers listed 1 to 5 in this topic. The date for completion of this stage will be the 22nd October (the Tuesday coming). Each producer will be given a score depending on the amount of nominations and what position within people's top 5 they were placed and then this will be used to put the producers into groups, with only the top 16 points scoring producers making it to this group stage. I think that is just about everything, and I will get the ball rolling.

1. DJ Premier
2. RZA
3. Johnny J
4. Warren G
5. Alchemist

Please make your choices known.

1.Dr. Dre
2.RZA
3.Premo
4.DJ Quik
5.Hi-Tek

1. Dr. Dre
2. DJ Quik
3. Warren G
4. Mel Man
5. Fred Wreck

Honorable Mention: Eminem (he is starting to bring heat)

if its of all time:

1. Dr. Dre
2. DJ Quik
3. Daz
4. Warren G
5. RZA

1. Pete Rock
2. Large Professor
3. DJ Premier
4. Jay Dee
5. Hi-Tek

Those are actually my current favorites, but if I had to pick the current best producers, then here's how my list goes:  

1. Dr. Dre
2. Mel-Man
3. Eminem
4. Timbaland
5. The Neptunes

Just to make this clear this is the best producers ever, so I will take HairWuzHere's first list and Ejroza's second list.

Just to make this clear this is the best producers ever, so I will take HairWuzHere's first list and Ejroza's second list.

All right.

1. RZA
2. Premier
3. Dre
4. Pete Rock
5. Daz

1. Dr.Dre
2. DJ Premier
3. DJ Quik
4. Warren G
5. Hi-Tek