is kanye west the best producer of all time?

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legit thread.

dj premier is da god. also when mentioning producers i pretty much completely discount original/keyboard beatmakers and really only have respect for sample based producers. well thats wrong, i have great respect for original composer type dudes, southern style, west coast whatever. i just think i hold sample based dudes to a higher esteem/respect? anyways.

honestly kanye was ridiculous. completely ridiculous. i always put preme at #1 for the simplicity of his dopeness and his ability to make incredible beats that really ain't complicated, i mean. hmm.

they are complicated though. for those not too up on what goes into it. and since this post is already completely too long i will lengthen it more. dj premier's sample style is heavily influenced by the earlier samplers and machines like the sp1200, and mpc60-2. on these machines you had a limited amount of sample time. so if you found a dope song to sample, you could only record like 10 seconds or something ridiculous, but thats including drum sounds and everything, like the memory could only hold 10-12 seconds or something at once, so just a kick hat and snare would take like 2 seconds of that time, depending on the length of the ambience after the initial strike. anyways this forced producers to take STAB style chops. for instance



he took those strings, literally like 2 chops, and used them to make that nastiness. there is the bass string in the back which is probably a constant in the two main stabs of the BUHHBUH BAHHHBAH. but word, that with the drums and some bass. classic banger that gives you feeling. but i mean it is what it is. and you take it at face value. he's incredible for making something so simple that the more you listen to it the more you inclined to break your fucking neck instead of throwing your headphones off at the repetitiveness. he's a G.

BUT NOW KANYE.

he came up with better mpc's. better keyboards like the asr10. sample time wasnt really an issue. he also came up in a world where there were defined sounds of all coasts, and being from the midwest, all of those were able to influence him. the funkiness of the west, the banging shit from the south, and the gritty east coast shit. also spear heading the soul sample movement to the mainstream, WITH those elements. he was a fucking animal.

my next post in this thread is gonna have so many god damn classic beats it makes me sick.

the 00's were full of so many sick kanye beats. man.