Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1999

[Clive42]

Thread No.12 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1999

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)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1998 - OutKast - Aquemini
DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism (2nd)
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (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. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

2. The Roots - Things Fall Apart

3. Nas - I Am...

4. B.G. - Chopper City In the Ghetto

5. Snoop Dogg - No Limit Top Dogg

6. Missy Elliott - Da Real World

7. Hot Boy$ - Guerrilla Warfare

8. Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik

9. The Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre

10. Method Man & Redman - Blackout!

11. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

12. Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs

13. Dr. Dre - 2001

14. DMX... - And Then There Was X

15. Jay-Z - Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter

Spoiler

Other Albums

Peanut Butter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs a Ton
Silkk the Shocker - Made Man
Defari - Focused Daily
Mr. Serv-On - Da Next Level
Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1: (1991-1994) (Compilation)
C-Murder - Bossalinie
Harlem World - The Movement
Roots Manuva - Brand New Second Hand
Foolish (Soundtrack)
Krayzie Bone - Thug Mentality 1999
The Sugarhill Gang - Jump on It!
MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
Wu-Syndicate - Wu-Syndicate
Lil Soldiers - Boot Camp
Naughty by Nature - Nineteen Naughty Nine: Nature's Fury
Rawkus Records - Soundbombing II
8Ball & MJG - In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1
Slick Rick - The Art of Storytelling
No Limit Records - Who U Wit? (Compilation)
Swollen Members - Balance
TRU - Da Crime Family
MC Eiht - Section 8
GZA - Beneath the Surface
Fiend - Street Life
Gang Starr - Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr (Compilation)
Too Short - Can't Stay Away
EPMD - Out of Business
Public Enemy - There's a Poison Goin' On
The Roots - The Legendary (EP)
Lil Italy - On Top of da World
Memphis Bleek - Coming of Age
Violator - Violator: The Album (Compilation)
Ludacris - Incognegro
Beastie Boys - Scientists of Sound (The Blow Up Factor Vol. 1) (EP)
Mack 10 - Hoo-Bangin': The Mix Tape, Vol. 1 (Compilation)
N.O.R.E. - Melvin Flynt - Da Hustler
Puff Daddy - Forever
Magic - Thuggin'
O.G.C. - The M-Pire Shrikez Back
Jeru the Damaja - Heroz4Hire
Duck Down Records - Duck Down Presents: The Album (Compilation)
Eve - Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady
Ol' Dirty b*stard - nikka Please
Project Pat - Ghetty Green
A.G. - The Dirty Version
Terror Squad - The Album
Mac - World War III
Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance
Thicker than Water (Soundtrack)
Ice-T - The Seventh Deadly Sin
Warren G - I Want It All
Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How's Your Girl?
Living Legends - UHB IV: Stop & Retaliate (Compilation)
U-God - Golden Arms Redemption
Master P - Only God Can Judge Me
Lil Wayne - Tha Block Is Hot
The Roots - The Roots Come Alive (Live Album)
E-40 - Charlie Hustle: The Blueprint of a Self-Made Millionaire
Tech N9ne - The Calm Before the Storm
Kurupt - Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
Raekwon - Immobilarity
Beastie Boys - Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science (Compilation)
Nas - Nastradamus
Tash - Rap Life
Rakim - The Master
Q-Tip - Amplified
Cypress Hill - Los Grandes Éxitos en Español (Spanish-Language Compilation)
Funkmaster Flex - The Tunnel
Next Friday (Soundtrack)
Goodie Mob - World Party
2Pac + Outlawz - Still I Rise
E Money Bags - In E Money Bags We Trust
Blackalicious - Nia
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote!
The High & Mighty - Home Field Advantage
Muzion - Mentalité moune morne... (Ils n'ont pas compris)
Arsonists - As the World Burns
Sans Pression - 514-50 dans mon réseau
Black Moon - War Zone
Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
Freeman - L'palais de justice
La Cliqua - La Cliqua
K-Rino - No Mercy
Koma - Le réveil
Polyrhythm Addicts - Rhyme Related
Eightball & M.J.G. - In Our Lifetime
Kool Keith - Black Elvis / Lost in Space
New Flesh for Old - Equilibrium
Da Grassroots - Passage Through Time
Le Puzzle - Puzzle
Company Flow - Little Johnny From the Hospitul: Breaks and Instrumentuls Vol. 1
Rob Swift - The Ablist
Koopsta Knicca - Da Devil's Playground: Underground Solo
Strength Magazine - Subtext
La Malédiction du Nord - Les raisons de la colère
Cool Breeze - East Point's Greatest Hit
Scaramanga - Seven Eyes, Seven Horns
RZA - Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai – The Album (Soundtrack)
RZA - Music from the Motion Picture Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (Soundtrack)
Saukrates - The Underground Tapes
Ja Rule - Venni Vetti Vecci
Atmosphere - Headshotz Se7en
Juvenile - Tha G-Code
Pyroman et Neda - Le jour Π
Material - Intonarumori
Mac Dre - Rapper Gone Bad
Haiku d'Etat - Haiku d'Etat
DJ Spinna - The Beyond Real Experience
Mo'vez Lang - Héritiers de la rue...
Natas - Wicket World Wide.Com
Jim Crow - Crow's Nest
DJ Vadim - U.S.S.R. Life From the Other Side

I haven't heard enough from 1999, so I have no choice but to go with 2001 (which i thought had just as many misses as hits, but atleast had an evolved sound from Dr Dre's earlier music)

 

[Trilogy]

2001... it’s not even close...































like at all

 

[Waterproof]

Dr. Dre 2001

 

[Columbo]

I Am off the strength of Nas is like

Nastradamus should have a spot on the poll

 

[Bugsmoran]

2001 followed by Beatnuts - musical massacre

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

2001 should run away with this

 

[ADP]

didnt really understand your issue with 2001 ? what misses, shyt is bangin front, back and side to side

production wise it's a hall of famer without a doubt...

 

[Xtz23]

Murda muzik retail/bootleg with eaze :pee106:

Edit: didn't see 2001 which is on mm level & is a classic.

 

[Clive42]

I Am off the strength of Nas is like

Nastradamus should have a spot on the poll

Actually, Nastradamus does have some good sounding beats on there, despite being mixed in with bad ones. The first half of the album is decent.

Infact i'll go as far as to say i prefer the best beats on Nastradamus to the best on I am (except 'Small World' and 'Nas is Like').

Now imagine how this poll would turn out if the original I am autobiography came out.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Definitely not the strongest year lol. 2001 takes this.

 

[Clive42]

didnt really understand your issue with 2001 ? what misses, shyt is bangin front, back and side to side

production wise it's a hall of famer without a doubt...

I havent listened to the whole album in time so I cant remember every song, but i remember disliking about half of the beats on the album.

But with many album beats ive disliked in the past, over time i start to like them more. 'Gimme the Loot' on Ready to die and 'Eye for an eye' on The Infamous are 2 examples of this.

The production on the album is still overall 'decent' to me considering its consistent, has some real standouts and Dre's 'sound' had evolved. You can tell alot of time went into it.

Anyway, the beats that I did like were Still Dre, Big Egos, XXplosive, Whats the Difference, The Next Episode, bytch Nikkas, Some L.A. Nikkas, Bang Bang & The Message. The Car bomb skit still gets played too, aswell as the 'alien' sound on Light Speed for comedy purposes.

 

[Metal Face]

BOBS easily.

 

[FunkyFresh]

2001 closely followed by Kurupt - Streetz is a ...

 

[OHSNAP!]

Whoever votes for Nas, X or Jay...those had some lackluster/rushed beats on em

Chopper City In The Ghetto, Guerilla Warfare, No Limit Top Dogg, Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha and 2001 got this...westcoast and cash money

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

the ruff ryders tape