if you were to drop your debut album...
 

and you could only work with one beatmaker/producer, who would it be? I mean this in the sense of, which major producer makes beats that would actually fit your style of writing/rapping?

Kanye West.

i thought i'd be cool and say Kanye West but Certain is a dick about beating me in terms of posts where we'd both say Kanye West.

If I were to make a rap album I would pick Kanye West.

If Certain picked Kanye first then I'd go with 9th Wonder. idk if he's even dope anymore? I enjoyed Threats.

Failing that, me and Oats would drop a spoken word record over ambient uh-oh beats and become legends among the indie community.

J. Cole





















or Pete Rock

lol @ J. Cole

go fuck yourself.

Fox crew!

Kanye the best choice. Id like my singles to be handled by dj mustard tho.

Premier or alchemist

Or apollo brown.

Metro boomin

> Kanye tbh

Havoc or El-P, Blueprint, or Blockhead.

Big news that half of Coats is leaving to join Pants.

Major Lazer

FKi, Young Chop, La Musica (Harry Fraud), big krit, thelonious

Lil Jon

Word to Apollo brown and little John

This is easy for me though

Kno



Also L'Orange should be mentioned for playability


How far has Timbaland fallen?

I mean his catalog over anyone.

DJ Premier, The Alchemist, or DJ Shadow

For a throwback album, Pete Rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1RWQP-jXs


To push the boundaries of what's accepted in the genre, Tycho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFr9StkVwTk

Harry fraud was a good one I didn't expect to see

Zaytoven

Everything G Jones touch is fire

Seeing him tonight for the bday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DbosUo5Gs

People sleep on nottz. I havent listened to his new shit with asher roth but im consistently blown away on a daoly basis from his instagram.

He posts like 3-10 legit bangers every single day. And theyre all crazy. The way he structures shit. Pete rock said it best when he gave it up to him. Dudes an alien. His drum programming and basslines are ridiculous, sample chops across the board he pushes boundaries. No one gives a shit tho smh lol

I was gonna put harry fraud but kanye seemed the stronger choice

Oh yea nah I mean.....Kanye alchemist premier .....all leagues beyond fraud....just sayin I EXPECTED to see them.....fraud caught me off guard lol.

An nottz is fireeeee

Can u recommend me something he did w sum1......that's not asher Roth

But also the only valid answer is Kanye West.

Unless you don't care about the combination of money and artistic credibility.

Nicolay. Vintage Nicolay. Before Foreign Exchange became a whole band.

Kno. I always pre-order CunninLynguists albums to get the instrumentals.

6th Sense. Mad slept on. I've literally only heard a handful of the actual artists he produces for, but his instrumental mixtapes are CRAZY

Hannibal King. I actually have recorded mad joints over Hannibal King beats over the last 4-5 years that never saw the light of day.

Not really lol. I just know the random beat here and there that other people get credit for lol. Sup kanye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvKzt-ZagWk

Shitty mobile link APOLOGIES

But yea how nasty is that shit. Filthy drums. The breakdown, the synths the horns and everything drops away back to barebones filth

Hes top 10 skillwise for sure

just blaze

Lol watf uh oh I can't even click on that shit lol

But word yo I listened to like a top 30 youtube list an heard mad beats I didn't kno were his. Lots of old Busta stuff.

yea he has alot of flipmode shit too

The track i tried to link was kanyes barry bonds btw

Oh word. I know it. Shits fire.

Lol John Connor put it on his kanye tape that was supposedly all kanye beats ha

Alot of kanye beats the past 5 years or so have been collabs and shit too. That beat was all nottz tho. I know he has havoc do drums on alot of shit. He still does beats himself but hes smart enough to get others in to do shit too. Kanyes beats nowadays are weirdo shit.

I remember reading pretty recently whatever his last single was it was a frank dukes composition, someone else chopped and arranged that i forget now lol, and havoc did the drums.

But yea kanye fell off in my opinion. Not just because im not a fan of what he personally makes but from a technical soundpoint his shit is dumbed down crazy. Every now and then he can put a heater out tho

Scott Storch

@uh-oh, what did you think of Pusha T's "Numbers on the Board" beat?

Its aight. I see the appeal i dont care for it tho. Too simple/repetitive but im also biased cuz i havent fucked with pusha since the clipse first album. Don cannons made better shit.

What do you think of the DJ Premier beat on Jeru the Damaja's "Come Clean"? I remember when I first heard "Numbers on the Board," that's what it reminded me of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoagHLkLF5Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DawrlSwHUiM

Also, a big part of my logic is that the closest Kanye West has ever come to producing a full album for anyone other than himself is Common's Be (which had two Dilla tracks). If you had an entire debut album produced by him, that shit would have to be monumental. He wouldn't put his name on it like that otherwise.

Word. I like that pusha beat better than the jeru beat btw.

Be was still well within yeezys prime. Im sure he would make some banging shit hes still a beast, he just dumbed his shit down and thats what i mean by he fell off. Not that his skills fell off as much as he aint making super complex dope shit to impress his peers as much as just making dope pop hip hop to impress the masses

Its still talent just not what i prefer.

I like havoc beats
id have to say him for debut. But hed have to get gritty old school shit