Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1990

[Clive42]

Thread No.3 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1990

Leaderboards so far:
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1988 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1989 - The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better

Due to many people not having heard these earlier albums, and voting likely resulting from who is online at the time, Ima include 2nd and 3rd position results to include other albums thecoli also rate highly of.

2nd Place
1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989 - Too Short - Life Is...Too Short

3rd Place
1988 - EPMD - Strictly Business / Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

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

Once again, albums that I've heard are in bold

Discussion on production is VERY welcomed

1. Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - Funky Technician

2. Above The Law - Livin' Like Hustlers

3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

4. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

5. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

6. X Clan - To the East, Blackwards

7. Compton's Most Wanted - It's a Compton Thang

8. Eric B. & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em

9. Masta Ace - Take a Look Around

10. Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment

11. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive

12. Too Short - Short Dog's in the House

13. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

14. Brand Nubian - One for All

15. EPMD - Business as Usual

Other Albums (not included in the poll) - Due to much more releases from well known artists

Salt-n-Pepa - Blacks' Magic
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect
Tragedy Khadafi - Intelligent Hoodlum
CPO - To Hell and Black (Apparently MC Ren produced this whole album)
N.W.A - 100 Miles and Runnin' (EP)
King T - At Your Own Risk
Big Daddy Kane - Taste of Chocolate
Run-D.M.C. - Back from Hell
Ice Cube - Kill at Will (EP)
MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em

 

[Travellin' Man]

AmerikKKa's Most Wanted.

 

[smokeurobinson]

13. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

15. EPMD - Business as Usual

its a tie between these 2. Flawless production from front to back.


But again, i dont expect dudes who were actually around to vote objectively.....that last poll was a joke. Had Too Short over Pauls Boutique....i'll never forget that bullshyt.

Look at who's won so far.....everything NWA related...like come on now, NWA, wasn't dominating the game like that back in the day and they were my favorite group.

 

[smokeurobinson]

these 2 are a good 2nd runner up...

Taste Of Chocolate only had 2 eh songs......but the rest of the production is flawless.

6. X Clan - To the East, Blackwards

Big Daddy Kane - Taste of Chocolate

OP.....how u gonna forget the biggest record that year?

 

[cheech]

Fear of a Black Planet is the mountain top.

 

[315]

Out of Fear Of A Black Planet and The Tribe joint for me

 

[Clive42]

its a tie between these 2. Flawless production from front to back.


But again, i dont expect dudes who were actually around to vote objectively.....that last poll was a joke. Had Too Short over Pauls Boutique....i'll never forget that bullshyt.

Look at who's won so far.....everything NWA related...like come on now, NWA, wasn't dominating the game like that back in the day and they were my favorite group.

Yh i already knew not many posters on here would've heard the earlier albums, and that albums from artists that later blew up would get the most votes. Had to include them though for the olders. Ima include 2nd and 3rd places for the albums that almost win.

these 2 are a good 2nd runner up...

Taste Of Chocolate only had 2 eh songs......but the rest of the production is flawless.











OP.....how u gonna forget the biggest record that year?

Lool, i forgot about that album. I get my list from wikipedia (cos 'best of' lists are too long) and this album werent on there. I'll include it on the 'Other albums' section

 

[Flav]

I was going to choose AMW went with X-Clan instead. The beats was funky samples but still had a jungle Africa feel to it.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Marley killed the production so hard on this album.

 

[THE K-MAN]

FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET