WHo's your favorite Rap/R&b producer...and why

[YounQcass]

Sorry to the fans of other genre's of music...rap and r&b is what i know best...
Im just wondering how many hip-hop fans are around.
i know its hard to pick out one producer...For me there are attributes that I admire about 9th wonders sampling,kanye's drums, dre's synth sounds, blaze's organs,hi-teks basslines...etc
tell me what u admire?

[vurt]

adam f,because hes alvin stardusts son.

[jones-y]

uh.... me?

[Left Headphone]

Timba, Neptunes, Kells. These guys have changed the game as far Hip-hop and R&B. You can throw Lil Jon in there too. K West just cuts up old records and samples the hell out of them.

[diverdee]

I respect El-P, he has a really dark almost industrial like sound sometimes, love the cannibal ox Lp.
Kinda rate Madlib, for the phatness of his beats, though his stuff sometimes seems a little 'obvious' - don't now how else to put it, I like it most when he worked with MF doom on madvillain & doom's another producer I like, kinda gritty lo-fi.
I liked the stuff blockhead did with aesop rock, some really 'musical' hip hop production on tunes like battery from the labor lp.
At the moment i'm really into blueprint, dunno there's a sense of space in his productions that I really like - his tunes seem to breath & give the vocalist a lot of space, I like the sounds he uses & his styles hard to pin down - keeps evolving I guess - anyways didn't he produce celestial clockwork for illogic? - some of my favourite hip hop tunes are on that LP.

[No name]

I don't respect any producer now. DRe, timbaland, they don't make music, they all follow these f**king trends. Hey, lil john uses a whine lead and 808's excessively, lets all do the same! They may have a bit of creativity, but the originality is lacking now. I will give the neptunes credit, at least they went their own direction and were original, but most hip hop producers are way overrated, especially lil john. I don't know what the f**k people are thinking when they pay him so much to make something so simple.

[The Chase]

timbaland, The neptunes, Dr. Dre. Definately blackalicious and tribe called quest.

And who ever did "crazy in love". And all on sean paul's stuff and 50 cent's stuff.

Gorillaz stuff is in its own league, imo.

[metamorphosis]

Dj dangermouse :):)
Kidding.

[The Chase]

i totally agree about lil jon though. The trends he started are laughable and set some parts of hip hop back a few years

[spacefox]

Earl Blaize, for his work with APC.

[Pantsdown666]

Madlib, for his dirty funky beats, his appreciation of jazz, his diversity and his ability to be so prolific in the face of smoking dozens of blunts every day. Saw him DJ once as well and it was a pretty unique experience. I think his remix of Jill Scott's "Love Rain" ranks of one of my most played tracks of last year.

[stash98]

cannibal ox...awesome album.

im not into lil jon, but to say what he does is simple is a joke. i hate when people dismiss someone for being simple..if you really break down his beats, and try to do that style you will understand how it is not simple at all. i leared to produce hip hop from playing bass in a krunk studio 9 years ago. those guys are very talented, its just a sound that im not into as much.

but if you check out manny fresh's production on 400 degreez by juvenile, you will be amazed at how complex his beats are....the first listen they sound simple, but if you listen again as producer, you will be impressed by how much he is doing.

[Igor 4000]

Timbaland is still the most innovative producer in that genre. By far.

[sparlecki]

My favorite is RZA from 1993-1998, and its because of how simple his beats were, its as if he wraps you into a moment of spontaneity. Plus those Wu Tang Albums from that time(Enter the 36, Wu Forever, Tical (Method Man), Liquid Swords (GZA), Return to the 36 (Ol Dirty Bastard), Ironman (Ghostface), and Cuban Linx (Raekwon) are all classics. Also of note, the Bomb Squad (Public Enemy), DangerMouse, EL-P (big ups on Cannibal Ox recognition), Daedelus, Dan the Automator (Dr. Octagon, Deltron), DJ Premier, The Dust Brothers, Prefuse 73, The Opus, Madlib, MF Doom, Prince Paul (DelaSOul, Gravediggaz six feet deep- unreal, w/ RZA), Timbaland (not so much anymore, like RZA's Bobby Digital phase), and The Neptunes, for club, shake that ass singles.

[The Chase]

im not into lil jon, but to say what he does is simple is a joke. i hate when people dismiss someone for being simple

I have no problem with shear simplicity. Making good musci out of simplicity is what can make a producer amazing.

But little jon's production are simply a few rap drums with a shitty sliding lead over it. He uses cheap melodies, and his productions are usually sloppily put together with horrible levels.

His leads sound like the "filler" presets dev's put on their polyphonic synths to help sell them.

if you really break down his beats, and try to do that style you will understand how it is not simple at all

wait you said above his music is simple! what do you mean?

P.S. is it me or are the girls in his vids not hot at all? Where does his video producers get them? off the streets?