Is it me or we currently lack innovation/artistry in production?

[Low End Derrick]

The democratization of music production software has levelled the playing field.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Wheezy is the best producer out

 

[Cheese McNair]

Wheezy is the best producer out

I’m only familiar with his work on Barter 6. I fukked with it

 

[darealvelle]

Stop listening to mainstream rap. A lot of those instrumental only producers be making some real dope innovative beats.

 

[Detroit Wave]

Dj Fresh is the best producer in the game

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Check out

Monte Booker
Kaelin Ellis
The Kount
J Robb

The whole Soulection movement

 

[Master Teacher]

All you have is generic cac music

and reality TV raps

Drill music is basically the reality TV version of a crime drama, nikkaz become the hottest in the scene with two songs out the blue, they talk intricately about the crimes and murders in songs where you can follow a time like an episode to see how each beef with each opp ended

that's the business model

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

You want old shyt then you gotta listen to the old shyt. If you really live this “real hip hop shyt” then you should have been found some artist and producers out of your desire to hear something different. I be complaining about rap like the next man, but all this shyt usually be overstated.

 

[Leao2005]

Cardo - dope
Statik selektah - dope
Mac Miller (RIP) - dope
The mekanix- dope

lots of dope varied production, just gotta listen to more types of music. The mainstream is stuck in one sound outside of the superstars from the 09/10 class

Cardo lowkey a scout for new talent. He always has production for these small artist befor they blow up

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Public Enemy's production team: Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler. If it wasn't for them, we would have never gotten It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back or Fear of a Black Planet.

Their signature sound involved taking multiple samples from various sources (music, television shows, political speeches, radio shows) and combining them to create a "wall of noise." Some of the samples were indistinguishable because of how they were layered on top of each other. They wanted music that could match up to Chuck D's voice because of how powerful it was.

I think they said on Fear of a Black Planet, they used at least 150 samples. It would be impossible to do this now, not because nobody has the ability to, but the sampling costs would be and a lot of people would be going to court. When Public Enemy was around, sampling laws weren't intact because hip hop was still new so companies/older artists hadn't caught on to what producers were doing yet. The Bomb Squad took advantage of that and made their own style of beats because back then, nobody could tell them no.

That’s why they fit Cube like a glove on his first album


You can tell Sir Jinx tried to bring that same energy on Death Certificate

 

[Trot LaRoc]

I like Cardo. Kenny Beats can be hit or miss but he is versatile
Harry fraud solid
Erick Arc Elliott

 

[Stir Fry]

Dj Fresh is the best producer in the game

 

[Drip Bayless]

Its plenty of fire young producers out, do your research

 

[Playaz Eyez]

All you have is generic cac music

and reality TV raps

Drill music is basically the reality TV version of a crime drama, nikkaz become the hottest in the scene with two songs out the blue, they talk intricately about the crimes and murders in songs where you can follow a time like an episode to see how each beef with each opp ended

that's the business model

Then the cops look them up on IG to piece together stuff and instantly arrests them

 

[Rozay Oro]

You want old shyt then you gotta listen to the old shyt. If you really live this “real hip hop shyt” then you should have been found some artist and producers out of your desire to hear something different. I be complaining about rap like the next man, but all this shyt usually be overstated.

I want to help mix the mainstream up as a professional. I’m not asking for music to hear.