Def Squad was dropping nonstop classics forever in the 90's. What a time!
They sold a lot of records with El Niño too.
You mentioned Insomnia. That era of Erick's production was really him at his best!
Hell nah.
Erick's production stopped being cold. exactly on hittin switches.
Early erick was untouchable.
In this era erick was too cliche.
hovering on too overly commercial.
As a matter of fact...red should have went at it alone. As erick was making a cliche commercialized funk.
mixed with both parrish snd sermon being equally bogus culturally. That you just had to jettison both. Where neither recovered culturally or skill wise.
Plus failed to ramp in the sonic landscape changes. Including cringe before it was a relevent term direction. That made both a nondraw culturally. Sermon lucky v103 and grew to support rap. If not for being the cliche vet soundtrack with the marvin gaye thing. Erick was done done.
Art Barr