Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1996

[Clive42]

Thread No.9 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1996

The 1995 thread atleast went well, despite there being difficult choices, and ended with 63 votes. And the winning album was definitely something special at the time. But its 1996 now, another year with many classics and likely more hard choices.

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)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1994 - Nas - Illmatic
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (2nd)
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik / Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1995 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Mobb Deep - The Infamous (2nd)
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food (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. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me

2. Fugees - The Score

3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

4. De La Soul - Stakes Is High

5. Nas - It Was Written

6. A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life

7. UGK - Ridin' Dirty

8. OutKast - ATLiens

9. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

Spoiler

10. Ghostface Killah - Ironman

11. Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

12. Snoop Dogg - Tha Doggfather

13. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

14. Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth

15. Redman - Muddy Waters

Other Albums

Kid Rock - Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp
The D.O.C. - Helter Skelter
Eazy-E - Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
Lord Finesse - The Awakening (acidentally put this in the 1995 thread too)
B.G. - Chopper City
Busta Rhymes - The Coming
Cella Dwellas - Realms 'n Reality
Bahamadia - Kollage
Geto Boys - The Resurrection
MC Eiht - Death Threatz
MC Ren - The Villain in Black
Master P - Ice Cream Man
Kool Keith - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Dre - First Round Knock Out
Too Short - Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
Digital Underground - Future Rhythm
Ice-T - VI: Return of the Real
Kool G Rap - Rated XXX
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Crucial Conflict - The Final Tic
Blahzay Blahzay - Blah Blah Blah
Cypress Hill - Unreleased and Revamped (EP)
Silkk the Shocker - The Shocker
MC Lyte - Bad As I Wanna B
Mr. 3-2 - The Wicked Buddah Baby
The Dayton Family - F.B.I. (fukk Being Indicted)
Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math
Xzibit - At the Speed of Life
Westside Connection - Bow Down
O.G.C. - Da Storm
Lil' Kim - Hard Core
Eminem - Infinite
Foxy Brown - Ill Na Na
Shaquille O'Neal - You Can't Stop the Reign
Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath
M.O.P - Firing Squad
Young Lay - Black 'n Dangerous
Dubee AKA Sugawolf - Dubee AKA Sugawolf
Real Live - The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama
Ultra - Big Time
Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Bush Babees - Gravity
Poor Righteous Teachers - The New World Order
Various Artists - Hostile Hip-Hop (French Compilation)
Juggaknots - The Juggaknots
Various Artists - America Is Dying Slowly
Keith Murray - Enigma
Al' Tariq - God Connections
StreeThugs - Not to Be Fu•?ed With
DJ Vadim - U.S.S.R. Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality)
Ideal J - O'riginal MC’s sur une mission
Y-D - Give It Up to the G's
Kwest tha Madd Lad - This Is My First Album
Sadat X - Wild Cowboys
2 Bal 2 Neg' - 3x plus efficace
Dru Down - Can You Feel Me
Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush - 記憶 (Ki-Oku)
E-40 - Tha Hall of Game
Shyheim - The Lost Generation
Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)
Richie Rich - Half Thang
Richie Rich - Seasoned Veteran
Nine - Cloud 9
Three 6 Mafia - The End
Esham - Dead Flowerz
Big Noyd - Episodes Of A Hustla
Above The Law - Time Will Reveal
Do Or Die - Picture This

Am gonna have to go with Ghostface's Ironman. This is the best produced of the Wu albums that ive heard with only one terrible beat (Assasiantion Day) that i still listen to for comedy purposes.

Other albums: Illadelph Halflife, Reasonable Doubt, Nocturnal and Soul on Ice. Infact, I think Soul on Ice was called out for having bad production, but the albums beats are decent to me.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

All eyez on me.

 

[OHSNAP!]

All Eyez On Me (GOAT production)
ATLiens (GOAT overall album)
Ridin' Dirty (one of the GOAT albums)

Man what a year! Timeless classic after timeless classic

The End, Reasonable Doubt, Resurrection had phenomenal beats as well

 

[an emissary from hell]

production wise I'd have to give to All Eyez on Me

 

[ADP]

voted for reese nibbled out since that's the ny sound that i love the most and i got to shout xzibit's at the speed of life, love love that joint

 

[Juggalo Fred]

esham "dead flowerz"

 

[Clive42]

voted for reese nibbled out since that's the ny sound that i love the most and i got to shout xzibit's at the speed of life, love love that joint

reese nibbled out

 

[Clive42]

esham "dead flowerz"

Will add that

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

This is so fukking difficult. 4 contenders imo:

- ATLiens: not so much the sound quality as much as the atmosphere that was created by that sound. Really sounds like some outer space shyt. Totally engulfs the listener.
- All Eyez on Me: the cleanest sound in 1996. Mixed and mastered to perfection almost. Sounds fresh still today, and some legendary beats of course on a 27 track double LP.
- Hell on Earth: Havoc taking drums to the next level here. Infinitely more hollow and lifeless and goes well with the extra menacing production. Also sounds very fresh, even compared to The Infamous that was released 1 year prior.
- Ironman: I've said this before, I think this album is technically better produced than OB4CL and Liquid Swords, I just prefer the sound of those albums better. Ironman just sounds more enriched and more refined. I think the production formula would be perfected a year later though on Wu Forever.

Gonna go with Hell on Earth.

 

[El Vato]

good list i was thinking fuguees but it was just a song that made them huge and it wasn't about wyclef..all eyes ..yes if it was one album then it would be a classic. NWA is my vote..Cube changed history with that..it was more than Dre....

Thread No.9 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1996

The 1995 thread atleast went well, despite there being difficult choices, and ended with 63 votes. And the winning album was definitely something special at the time. But its 1996 now, another year with many classics and likely more hard choices.

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)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1994 - Nas - Illmatic
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (2nd)
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik / Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1995 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Mobb Deep - The Infamous (2nd)
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food (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. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me

2. Fugees - The Score

3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

4. De La Soul - Stakes Is High

5. Nas - It Was Written

6. A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life

7. UGK - Ridin' Dirty

8. OutKast - ATLiens

9. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

Spoiler

10. Ghostface Killah - Ironman

11. Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

12. Snoop Dogg - Tha Doggfather

13. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

14. Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth

15. Redman - Muddy Waters

Other Albums

Kid Rock - Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp
The D.O.C. - Helter Skelter
Eazy-E - Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
Lord Finesse - The Awakening (acidentally put this in the 1995 thread too)
B.G. - Chopper City
Busta Rhymes - The Coming
Cella Dwellas - Realms 'n Reality
Bahamadia - Kollage
Geto Boys - The Resurrection
MC Eiht - Death Threatz
MC Ren - The Villain in Black
Master P - Ice Cream Man
Kool Keith - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Dre - First Round Knock Out
Too Short - Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
Digital Underground - Future Rhythm
Ice-T - VI: Return of the Real
Kool G Rap - Rated XXX
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Crucial Conflict - The Final Tic
Blahzay Blahzay - Blah Blah Blah
Cypress Hill - Unreleased and Revamped (EP)
Silkk the Shocker - The Shocker
MC Lyte - Bad As I Wanna B
Mr. 3-2 - The Wicked Buddah Baby
The Dayton Family - F.B.I. (fukk Being Indicted)
Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math
Xzibit - At the Speed of Life
Westside Connection - Bow Down
O.G.C. - Da Storm
Lil' Kim - Hard Core
Eminem - Infinite
Foxy Brown - Ill Na Na
Shaquille O'Neal - You Can't Stop the Reign
Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath
M.O.P - Firing Squad
Young Lay - Black 'n Dangerous
Dubee AKA Sugawolf - Dubee AKA Sugawolf
Real Live - The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama
Ultra - Big Time
Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Bush Babees - Gravity
Poor Righteous Teachers - The New World Order
Various Artists - Hostile Hip-Hop (French Compilation)
Juggaknots - The Juggaknots
Various Artists - America Is Dying Slowly
Keith Murray - Enigma
Al' Tariq - God Connections
StreeThugs - Not to Be Fu•?ed With
DJ Vadim - U.S.S.R. Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality)
Ideal J - O'riginal MC’s sur une mission
Y-D - Give It Up to the G's
Kwest tha Madd Lad - This Is My First Album
Sadat X - Wild Cowboys
2 Bal 2 Neg' - 3x plus efficace
Dru Down - Can You Feel Me
Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush - 記憶 (Ki-Oku)
E-40 - Tha Hall of Game
Shyheim - The Lost Generation
Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)
Richie Rich - Half Thang
Richie Rich - Seasoned Veteran
Nine - Cloud 9
Three 6 Mafia - The End
Esham - Dead Flowerz

Am gonna have to go with Ghostface's Ironman. This is the best produced of the Wu albums that ive heard with only one terrible beat (Assasiantion Day) that i still listen to for comedy purposes.

Other albums: Illadelph Halflife, Reasonable Doubt, Nocturnal and Soul on Ice. Infact, I think Soul on Ice was called out for having bad production, but the albums beats are decent to me.

 

[mobbinfms]

It's not even close really. This was the album where Hav solidified his spot as the GOAT producer :havdahell:

Everybody should have this album on tape, CD and vinyl. :havarmscrossed:
Lettuce not forget his work on the GOAT EP that same year

 

[JayBaldacci]

Ironman wins...

People voting for AEOM... lol.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Ironman wins...

People voting for AEOM... lol.

Ambitionz Az A Ridah
Picture Me Rollin'
I Ain't Mad Atcha
California Love
No More Pain
Tradin' War Stories
Ain't Hard To Find
.......
harder than any Ironman beat you sucka

 

[mobbinfms]

@Clive42 you should listen to Hell On Earth as soon as you can :psalute:

 

[nahnah]

Goat year