Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1989

[Clive42]

Thread No.2 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1989

Leaderboards so far:
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1988 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton

NOTES

• Poll will be out of 15 choices
• Only one choice
• Will close after 7 days
• Votes will be displayed publicly
• Winning album will be displayed in leaderboards of subsequent thread/year

Discussion on production is VERY welcomed

1. Too Short - Life Is...Too Short

2. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

3. Geto Boys - Grip It! On That Other Level

4. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road to the Riches

5. Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy

6. LL Cool J - Walking with a Panther

7. Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop

8. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

9. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better

10. EPMD - Unfinished Business

11. Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing

12. Biz Markie - The Biz Never Sleeps

13. Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!

14. Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature

15. Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen

 

[smokeurobinson]

2. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

This is the only answer. None of those other albums were next level like 3 Feet in 89 nor does 3 Feet have any skipables. Pauls Boutique was cool but the wack lyrics is why that album loses points.

1) The layers of sampling is something that we will never see again unless Kanye divorces Kim and starts eating 5 dollar heros again. Rza refered to this album as a masterpeice on production alone.

2) Everyone was biting skits after this album





That Blueprint album even KRS said was low grade on the production side.




@ the Gangstarr album cover.

 

[Newportbox]

Realistically, 3 Feet High & Rising. But I voted for All Hail The Queen because it's a dope album that deserves more shine.

 

[Piff Perkins]

3 Feet High & Rising
Paul's Boutique

 

[hex]

Subs.

I need to think about this.

Fred.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Who said DOCs No One Can Do It Better?

Explain yourself.


Me personally.....i say u cant vote if u never heard all of these albums.

 

[Clive42]

Who said DOCs No One Can Do It Better?

Explain yourself.


Me personally.....i say u cant vote if u never heard all of these albums.

Yeah, i kinda expected most people to have not heard these early golden age albums, but only a few songs from them.

Just had to include the late 1980s albums for the olders

 

[filial_piety]

Grap and Too Short….in all fairness I didn't hear a few of those

 

[smokeurobinson]

Dudes really picking Latifah and Too Short over Pauls Boutique?




DOC over 3 Feet? GTFOH

 

[Sukairain]

One slept on album is The Young Son of No-one by MC Breeze that's some unbelievable shyt

From this list I would have to give it to D.O.C.

 

[gluvnast]

No One Can Do it Better is not only the best PRODUCED album of 1989, I put it up there as one of the best produced albums Dr. Dre ever done. Both Paul's Boutique and 3 Feet High and Rising were innovative albums mainly due to sampling everything under the sun. But name a joint that was better than THE FORMULA? or THE DOC & THE DOCTOR? or MIND BLOWING with some of the most amazing DJ scratching and mixing ever??? Or FUNKY ENOUGH??? or the TITLE TRACK?

The only reason why Beastie's 2nd album (which in 1989 was considered a FLOP) and DE LA SOUL' album got praised were mostly due to their innovative ways they did with sampling.... but that ALONE doesn't mean it was the NICEST out that year.

 

[gluvnast]

That said.... JUNGLE BROTHERS 2nd album was SEVERELY UNDERRATED... the BEATS ON THAT ALBUM WERE NEAR FLAWLESS.

 

[Yoda]

de la soul you fukkin pedophile

 

[rubberbandmane]

Paul's Boutique was some next level production. No one can do it better was also solid.

 

[smokeurobinson]

But name a joint that was better than THE FORMULA? or THE DOC & THE DOCTOR? or MIND BLOWING with some of the most amazing DJ scratching and mixing ever??? Or FUNKY ENOUGH??? or the TITLE TRACK?

Opinions are subjective but.....Me Myself And I was better and bigger then all them songs u mentioned......Me Myself And I was doing the type of funk Dr Dre would do years later while Dre was still trying to sound East Coast on that DOC album.....

Me Myself And I was 10 x bigger then anything DOC did that whole year. Lie to yourself and say it wasn't.


Me Myself And I had more quotables.



Me, Myself And I is in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.....DOC has nothing in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.