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to me premier is above them all due to the fact he doesnt use half the technniques someone like alchemist or kanye uses, and he still makes the dopest break your neck shit ever. STILL. to me he never evolved, and he doesnt have to. he is the great white of beat makers.

dre's far and above the best at making his shit sound perfect. and his plethora of classic beats all over the place put him up ther,e even tho personally i like others more he has to be up there he's ill.

kanye was a genius for a long time but to be honest i tapped out back in the power days or whatever that robot shit was. and then seeing a performance where he's triggering the piano stabs in the simplest shit ever on an mpc or whatever i just stopped caring, even tho he still makes some ill shit. he just has some of the dopest beats from the most impressionable time in my life. he was crazy impressive.

alchemist can blow me away or underwhelm the fuck out of me. i made a beat in 07 i couldnt get it to sound right with the sample, there was a weird bass i couldnt make sound good, and i couldnt take it out because that also ruined it, so i settled for an inbetween and never liked it fully, but like last year i heard alchemist flip the sample exactly the same way, and he kept the shitty bass like i did, and the beat was shitty and terrible just like mine was.

and it made me think less of him. but then i can put on at least 50 beats that shit on everything i've ever made, and shit on alot of everything from dre premier or any of them. but the same can be said for all of them. thats why they're top 5.

rza is an anomaly. i can't quantify his dopeness. he deserves the spot, he just aint living crazy no more. he's making beats on shit he bought. not an sp1200 that odb stole of some kid. but he's still capable to make some deadliness.

theres just too many people. erick sermon made one of my favorite beats ever. his catalogue tho i dont feel is as heavy as these dudes tho, to me personally.