Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1994

[Clive42]

Thread No.7 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1994

It's 1994 now, and its gonna be interesting to see what album thecoli picks

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)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1991 - N.W.A - Nikkaz4Life
DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (2nd)
Ice Cube - Death Certificate (3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1992 - Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother (2nd)
Redman - Whut? Thee Album / The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1993 - Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (2nd)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (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. Gang Starr - Hard to Earn

2. Nas - Illmatic

Spoiler

3. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

4. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East

5. Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era

6. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Creepin on ah Come Up (EP)

7. Above the Law - Uncle Sam's Curse

8. MC Eiht - We Come Strapped

9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

10. Common - Resurrection

11. Thug Life - Thug Life: Volume 1

12. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

13. Scarface - The Diary

14. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient

15. Method Man - Tical

Other Albums

Coughee Brothaz - Fadanuf Fa Erybody!!
Schoolly D - Welcome to America
Insane Clown Posse - Ringmaster
The Roots - From the Ground Up (EP)
Master P - The Ghetto's Tryin' to Kill Me!
8Ball & MJG - On the Outside Looking In#
Big Mike - Somethin' Serious
Public Enemy - Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age
UGK - Super Tight
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - Break of Dawn
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
PMD - Shade Business
Shyheim - AKA the Rugged Child
Paris - Guerrilla Funk
Coolio - It Takes a Thief
Twista - Resurrection
Da Lench Mob - Planet of da Apes
Kool Moe Dee - Interlude
Redman - Dare Iz a Darkside
Slick Rick - Behind Bars
Black Sheep - Non-Fiction
Da Brat - Funkdafied
Craig Mack - Project Funk da World
Big Daddy Kane - Daddy's Home
Artifacts - Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceMC Solaar - Prose combat
Scientifik - Criminal
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction AgendaThe Beatnuts - The Beatnuts: Street Level
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
O.C. - Word...Life
Esham - Closed Casket
Murder Was the Case (soundtrack)
Above the Rim (soundtrack)
Quite a few albums that I wish i could've included in the poll

Either way, my list is gonna go

1. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient - Despite a few beats i dont like, the production on this album as an entire product is amazing, and Pete Rock more or less became my fav producer after listening to this. Carmel City, I get physical, Searching, In the flesh , Its on you

. Wish he made full versions of those intro/outro beats tho

2. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die / Nas - Illmatic - Theres only one thing ima say about Ready to Die and it starts with 'Easy' and it ends in 'Bee'. Illlmatic is almost perfectly produced, despite how 'simple', some of the beats might seem. Memory Lane and The World is Yours are my favourite beats on the album

3. Common - Resurrection - I dunno, I just felt that the jazzy production on this album was mostly on point. If No ID isnt already seen as a top 20 producer, then he should be. The drums for 'Book of Life' is one of them beats that make my head bop, and for some reason just cant control it

 

[Ashtrey]

Regulate... G-Funk Era. My most played album of that year

 

[KingSol81]

for me The Diary is a close second followed by Uncle Sams Curse, Creepin On a Come Up and Southernplayalistic... In that order

 

[mobbinfms]

Voted Illmatic
Main Ingredient is number two

 

[Sukairain]

Regulate, to make it 7 years in a row the west coast took this title out

 

[Clive42]

Upping so more people can vote

Anyway i'd say one album i love the production on is Scarface's The Diary. One album where the hi-hats/shakers goes harder than the other 'drum' instruments, especially on No Tears and Jesse James

And personally, One Time is just an amazing experience

 

[MidnightMercenary]

Voting for Illmatic.

It's not exactly a masterpiece in the beat department but I really can't find another album in 1994 as memorably produced. The Ahmad Jamal flip in "The World Is Yours" is one of the greatest flips OAT

 

[Travellin' Man]

Illmatic

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Closed Casket by Esham

 

[Kixx]

The Diary

 

[YakSpiller]

Blowout Comb still sounds great.

 

[pointproven214]

thug life vol.1 for me and illmatic easily.

 

[Clive42]

Closed Casket by Esham

Must've missed that one

 

[KingSol81]

Coughee Brothaz - Fadanuf Fa Erybody!!

So under rated

 

[Cheech&Chong]

wow. just look at that list . goat albums dropping every other week