Mike Dean: "I've Made Half The Black Music U Love"

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

First time I heard about Mike Dean was this thread

I thought you were talking about a Premier League Referee

 

[SirBiatch]

First time I heard about Mike Dean was this thread

I thought you were talking about a Premier League Referee

 

[JustCKing]

It is what it is breh. Mike Dean made a stupid statement and Storch was brought up just to show that there are other white "black music" producers who are bigger than Dean in every measurable way. It's not about who you prefer technically or think is better. Storches Catalogue runs laps around Deans. If the question is who had the bigger career and impact on black music and culture then the answer is pretty clear just by looking at their credits amount of number 1 records with black artist. Numbers don't lie.

Storch had bigger hits, but a smaller impact. He did production on Kanye, Beyonce and Jay in recent years. This is after decades in the game. StarGate have had more #1 records with Black artists than both of them, but they have had little impact on the sound of Black music.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I fukks with Mike Dean...but i listen to more black music outside of hip-hop (soul, funk, disco, reggae, soca, R&B, techno, house, deep house, jazz, blues, juke, jit, go-go, etc) and Mike Dean hasn't touched more than 1% of that...so this is an unbelievably arrogant statement.

 

[SirBiatch]

I fukks with Mike Dean...but i listen to more black music outside of hip-hop (soul, funk, disco, reggae, soca, R&B, techno, house, deep house, jazz, blues, juke, jit, go-go, etc) and Mike Dean hasn't touched more than 1% of that...so this is an unbelievably arrogant statement.

your avy

 

[Unknown Poster]

Apparently Rap-A-Lot stuff equals "half the black music you love".

I was looking at his discography on here.

I fukks with Rap-A-Lot and Southern and Bay Area rap...but I don't really be listening to alot of that stuff. Like its cool, but it has very little replay value in my book for me. And all of his G.O.O.D. Music contributions dn't have much replay value either...even Kanye's stuff. Its lowkey insulting and insinuiates that black people have a very limited selection of music they listen to outside of rap...which speaks volumes on his entitlement and it's just ignorant and racist.

 

[Charlie]

If scorch said it the half the black music comment woulda made more sense

 

[mobbinfms]

Soooo. To get back on topic since some people cant help themselves...

I cant name one song mike dean produced that wasnt co produced by kanye. Yes i know he did scarface shyt, never was a scarface fan cuz i thought the beats were trash most the time...

I dont have a single rap a lot album in my top 50 albums all time. What are these universal albums hes referring to?

Grip It
The Diary
Rap A Lot is better than No Limit, Cash Money and 3 Six.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Grip It
The Diary
Rap A Lot is better than No Limit, Cash Money and 3 Six.

That isnt saying much breh.

 

[dish lowry]

some of the most pro-black rappers in the early 90s had white producers. brand nubian had the sd50s, prt had tony d (rip), ice cube was a big fan of sam sever & wanted him to produce his first album.

not saying it isn't black music, but theres a big difference between mike dean & someone like riff raff

the most underrated white producer was t-ray...looked like a biker but he had legit classics under his belt

 

[mobbinfms]

You @ me first Jafar's protege, I responded to you. Don't throw shots then cry people are responding to you.





Seems like you are projecting because every time I shyt on you, you bring it up like its fresh on your mind
Why are you still talking about Run DMC and NWA when you got exposed for not learning about Hip Hop till 2001 so really, no matter how hard you try no one takes you serious. Remember when you thought you were super popular on a message board and were all excited about it?

As for the receipts @mobbinfms ......

He is credited on all these albums for mixing/engineering and producing. Scarface and these guys talk about him directly, he puts Mike Dean up there with Dr Dre in his book.

None of this information is hard to find either. And like I said before, people who understand the entire process know how important the mixing is. That's why guys like Dr Dre and DJ Quik would be asked to mix down the records. Theres a reason that Kanye West asks Mike Dean for his help.

I'm hearing a lot of silence from the Mike Dean ain't shyt side of the argument
What is your position on his impact or lack thereof with regard to the shift in the Rap A Lot sound?
As in Mr Scarface is Back sounds different than the Diary.

 

[mobbinfms]

That isnt saying much breh.

I agree.

 

[mobbinfms]

some of the most pro-black rappers in the early 90s had white producers. brand nubian had the sd50s, prt had tony d (rip), ice cube was a big fan of sam sever & wanted him to produce his first album.

not saying it isn't black music, but theres a big difference between mike dean & someone like riff raff

the most underrated white producer was t-ray...looked like a biker but he had legit classics under his belt

T-Ray

 

[spliz]

If scorch said it the half the black music comment woulda made more sense

He would be wrong too. But less wrong than Mike Dean.

 

[desjardins]

His career trajectory is kind of weird to me. Dude in his 50s and been producing since the 80s but didn't really "blow" until Kanye hopped on his dikk. Allegedly Mike Dean is the father of the Kanye/Travis Scott/Cudi sound. Not sure how you can quantify how much he actually did. I saw a video of him working with Travis Scott and he basically did the whole beat while Travis Scott was just adding lil pieces and what not.
His point stands though. If you go to studio sessions you will often times see white bols engineering and shyt like that, no matter how street the artist it. Been that way ever since the days of Larry Gold.