Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1991

[Clive42]

Thread No.4 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1991

Leaderboards so far:
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1988 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (2nd)
EPMD - Strictly Business / Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1989 - The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Too Short - Life Is...Too Short (2nd)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1990 - Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (2nd)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (3rd)


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

Albums that I've heard are in bold

Discussion on production is VERY welcomed

1. DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name

2. Gang Starr - Step in the Arena

3. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead

4. N.W.A - nikkaz4Life

5. Slick Rick - The Ruler's Back

6. Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped

7. Main Source - Breaking Atoms

8. Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature

9. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

10. Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Back

11. Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back

12. Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

13. Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Spoiler

14. 2Pac - 2Pacalypse Now

15. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Other Albums

Digital Underground - This Is an EP Release (EP)
Master P - Get Away Clean
GZA - Words from the Genius
Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs - Life of a Kid in the Ghetto
Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Homebase
KMD - Mr. Hood
Leaders of the New School - A Future Without a Past...
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - All Souled Out (EP)
Biz Markie - I Need a Haircut (Notable for being the first instance in hip hop where a rapper was sued for sampling another song)
Poor Righteous Teachers - Pure Poverty
Queen Latifah - Nature of a Sista
MC Lyte - Act Like You Know
WC and the Maad Circle - Ain't a Damn Thang Changed
2nd II None - 2nd II None
Digital Underground - Sons of the P
Del the Funky Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Big Daddy Kane - Prince of Darkness
Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion
Tim Dog - Penicillin on Wax
Tone Lōc - Cool Hand Lōc
P.M. Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
Compton's Most Wanted - Straight Checkn 'Em

 

[Yehuda]

Cats really picked Straight Outta Compton over Strictly Business like that?

 

[DaveyDave]

so you haven't heard any of these other albums that aren't in bold? you haven't heard Quik Is The Name or Step In The Arena or Breaking Atoms or De La is Dead!?!? get up on all those NOW!

 

[Sukairain]

I had to pick Quik

 

[Travellin' Man]

nikkaz4life

 

[Damnshow]

Easily Nikkaz4life

shyt was cinematic, you could listen to production from beginning to the end. Besides chronic and doggystyle that would be his best produced album.

Dre before the aftermath era was on another level

 

[Real N Quotes]

The LowEnd Thoery

 

[mobbinfms]

Step in the Arena was released in 1990 I believe.

For me it comes down to Main Source, Tribe and Cube. NWA was pretty amazing too.

My personal favorite just on beats is probably Main Source.

 

[Clive42]

so you haven't heard any of these other albums that aren't in bold? you haven't heard Quik Is The Name or Step In The Arena or Breaking Atoms or De La is Dead!?!? get up on all those NOW!

Your right, i shouldve heard them by now

But these albums come out before i was born and I did go back and 'educated' myself on older music about 5-10 years ago

I even discovered thecoli from my interest in 90s hip hop

But it was mostly 1993-1996 albums and some 2000s ones

 

[ManBearPig]

Nikkaz4Life

 

[Clive42]

Step in the Arena was released in 1990 I believe.

For me it comes down to Main Source, Tribe and Cube. NWA was pretty amazing too.

My personal favorite just on beats is probably Main Source.

Kmt. Thats the 2nd time ive messed up from relying on this page
1991 in hip hop music - Wikipedia
Wont make that mistake again

And still havent heard Breaking Atoms after all these years with the obvious exception of Live at the BBQ

 

[DaveyDave]

Your right, i shouldve heard them by now

But these albums come out before i was born and I did go back and 'educated' myself on older music about 5-10 years ago

I even discovered thecoli from my interest in 90s hip hop

But it was mostly 1993-1996 albums and some 2000s ones

I'm not knocking you breh, just that you're missing out on so much amazing music. Best thing to do is maybe download one of them a month or something like that. Let each of them sit for a decent amount of time before you move on to the next one. It's very easy these days to just download them all at once and never really listen to them.

 

[Clive42]

Yh its kl. A few i already have had for a few years now, but just haven't gotten round to listening to them. But for the sake of this thread series, it would be better if me, the person making the threads, has atleast heard a few of them.

The 1 album a month thing is something i can do though

 

[pointproven214]

2pacalypse now nikkaz 4 life ice cube death certifcate between these three albums.

 

[Mikeatris]

nikkaz or Cypress, both in my top 6 if all time produced albums