Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1998

[Clive42]

Thread No.11 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1998

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)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1996 - 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth (2nd)
OutKast - ATLiens / Ghostface Killah - Ironman (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (2nd)
Capone-N-Noreaga - The War Report (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. Silkk the Shocker - Charge It 2 da Game

2. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

3. Goodie Mob - Still Standing

4. Big Pun - Capital Punishment

5. DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot

6. N.O.R.E. - N.O.R.E.

7. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

8. Xzibit - 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz

9. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star

10. Jay-Z - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Spoiler

11. OutKast - Aquemini

12. A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement

13. Juvenile - 400 Degreez

14. Pete Rock - Soul Survivor

15. DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism

Other Albums

Young Bleed - My Balls and My Word
Funkdoobiest - The Troubleshooters
The Dynospectrum - The Dynospectrum
Scarface - My Homies
Killah Priest - Heavy Mental
C-Murder - Life or Death
Cappadonna - The Pillage
Das EFX - Generation EFX
Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back
Smif-n-Wessun - The Rude Awakening
I Got the Hook-Up (soundtrack)
AZ - Pieces of a Man
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Big Daddy Kane - Veteranz' Day
Mac Dre - Stupid Doo Doo Dumb
Public Enemy - He Got Game (Soundtrack)
WC - The Shadiest One
Shades of Culture - Mindstate
Fiend - There's One in Every Family
Rawkus Records - Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
Snoop Dogg - Smokefest Underground
Soulja Slim - Give It 2 'Em Raw
Too Short - Nationwide: Independence Day (Compilation)
8Ball - Lost
Show and A.G. - Full Scale (EP)
Master P - MP Da Last Don
Onyx - Shut 'Em Down
Devin the Dude - The Dude
Queen Latifah - Order in the Court
Z-Ro - Look What You Did to Me
Andre Nickatina - Raven in My Eyes
Black Eyed Peas - Behind the Front
Def Squad - El Niño
MC Ren - Ruthless for Life
Kane & Abel - Am I My Brother's Keeper
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Cam'ron - Confessions of Fire
Nate Dogg - G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2
Mac - Shell Shocked
Rasco - Time Waits for No Man
Sunz of Man - The Last Shall Be First
Wu-Tang Killa Bees - The Swarm (Compilation)
Snoop Dogg - Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
E-40 - The Element of Surprise
Killarmy - Dirty Weaponry
M.O.P. - First Family 4 Life
Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause
MC Lyte - Seven & Seven
Styles of Beyond - 2000 Fold
Biz Markie - On the Turntable
Big Ed the Asssassin - The Assassin
Fat Joe - Don Cartagena
Canibus - Can-I-Bus
Digital Underground Who Got the Gravy?
Skull Duggery - These Wicked Streets
Magic - Sky's the Limit
Big Tymers - How You Luv That Vol. 1
Big Tymers - How You Luv That Vol. 2
Flipmode Squad - The Imperial
Ras Kass - Rasassination
Brand Nubian - Foundation
No Limit Records - Mean Green (Compilation)
Bizzy Bone - Heaven'z Movie
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill IV
Kurupt - Kuruption!
Mack 10 - The Recipe
P.M. Dawn - Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad
Prime Suspects - Guilty 'til Proven Innocent
Twista & the Speedknot Mobstaz - Mobstability
Heltah Skeltah - Magnum Force
Slam (Soundtrack)
Gambino Family - Ghetto Organized
Mia X - Mama Drama
Pras - Ghetto Supastar
All City - Metropolis Gold
Crucial Conflict - Good Side, Bad Side
Yukmouth - Thugged Out: The Albulation
The Coup - Steal This Album
Ghetto Commission - Wise Guys
Geto Boys - Da Good da Bad & da Ugly
Ice Cube - War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
Method Man - Tical 2000: Judgement Day
RZA - Bobby Digital in Stereo
Steady Mobb'n - Black Mafia
Full Blooded - Memorial Day
Redman - Doc's da Name 2000
Busta Rhymes - E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
Mystikal - Ghetto Fabulous
DJ Clue - The Professional (album)
DMX - Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
Shurik'N - Où je vis
Fonky Family - Si Dieu veut... (Inch Allah)
Prophet Posse ‎– Body Parts
The Kaze - Kamakazie Timez Up
Indo G - Angel Dust
Gangsta Blac - I Am Da Gangsta
K-Rino - K-Rino
Various Artists - Chroniques de Mars
Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device
Witchdoctor - ...A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual
DJ Honda - HII
ATK - Heptagone
The Colored Section - Bomb MC

A rep to @I.AM.PIFF (or whoever made it) if he posts in here for using his dahell cover. From the albums I've heard, im stuck between Soul Survivor and the Blackstar album.

Soul Survivor has some amazing production, but i'd say that this is the first Pete Rock album that has a lot of weird samples that you'll either like or you wont. Still decent though. And Hi-Tek especially, went in on the Blackstar album, but im not really into much of the production on the rest of the album. However, both still keep a consistent tone imo.

Aquemini i need to listen to cos ive heard a few tracks before and they sounded amazing.

With that said, at No Limit in 1998. I counted about 19 No Limit albums while making this thread, with the 'Beats by the Pound' group producing the bulk of most, or if not, all of them. I'd be surprised if they were even allowed to go outside that year.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Impossible to choose a single one

Aquemini, Capital Punishment, Charge It 2 Da Game, Life Or Death, It's Dark & Hell Is Hot, 400 Degreez, Body Parts, My Balls & My Word, Rhythm-al-ism...all of em flawless pretty much, quality production from top to bottom

If I see ONE vote for Hard Knock Life or Tical 2000, I'ma call them knuckleheads out. Them shyts don't belong on this poll! FOH with that

Anyway, I'ma go with 400 Degreez

 

[OHSNAP!]

With that said, at No Limit in 1998. I counted about 19 No Limit albums while making this thread, with the 'Beats by the Pound' group producing the bulk of most, or if not, all of them. I'd be surprised if they were even allowed to go outside that year.

Craig B, Carlos, KLC, O'Dell, Mo B Di(k

Damn, the work these dudes put in during this year, out of this world. Dudes deserve medals or sth. Some incredible beats

 

[skillz2]

Between Moment Of Truth and Sour Survivor for me.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

If anyone chooses ANYTHING other than Rhythm-Al-Ism for best PRODUCED album, they either haven't heard it or are plain stupid

 

[Mr. Negative]

man it's crazy how 1994 - 1999 you just had a STUPID amount of good music coming from EVERYWHERE.

 

[mobbinfms]

Premier just killed that album
Aquemini was nice too
And Black Star
Low key the Brand Nubian album had some crazy beats too

 

[Maddmike]

Aquemeni and it aint even close....production wise, that shyt is a masterpiece.

 

[JMD]

Rhythalism over Aquemini for me...best work Quik has done and that’s saying a lot

Low key Daz album had some great production, the last true Death Row album to be released

 

[Zero]

This is a tough choice

 

[SoulController]

Moment, sorry Uncle Pete Soul Survivor is still the most star studded, dopest producer album ever tho (no slight to Muggs)

 

[Xtz23]

its between its dark and hell is hot and capital punishment.

 

[b. woods]

 

[TransJenner]

Listen to We Still Party of Rhythm-al-ism and tell me why that shyt sounds so clean

 

[Travellin' Man]