Did Large Professor produce this for Masta Ace??

[Tommy Gibbs]

It definitely sounds like something he'd do. yeah yeah, I know it says Marley Marl in the credits of the album, but as Large Pro just revealed recently on IG , he produced "illegal search" on LL's 4th album which was recorded around the same time as Take a Look Around. He said he was paid for it, but as you can see, his name was never in the credits. Now I'm thinking how much work did Large pro really put in during that era in which he was never credited for. This includes Let the Rhythm Hit em and tracks off Wanted Dead or Alive. The engineer and Kool G Rap both said that Large pro basically did 75% of the album by himself and wasn't credited for all of his work. Yall got to realize that Large pro was 17 at the time these albums were being recorded. So yeah, now I'm wondering if he actually did this beat and some more from the Masta Ace's debut.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

It does sounds like Large beat.

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

its def possible Large also did a lot of the intelligent hoodlum album around the same time ......this is how it went down according to Ace

With your first album, I gather you were involved in choosing the records – as far as bringing a record to Marley and saying, ‘Hook this up for me’?

In most cases with Marley, I would bring a sample from my mother’s record collection. I didn’t know how to produce as far as working the equipment – I knew kinda what I wanted it to sound like – but he knew how to work the equipment. So I would bring him a record, he’d listen to it – ‘Yo, this is hot’ – he would sample it, chop it up, add drums and all that stuff, then I would spit the rhymes. It was pretty much that way across the board with most of the artists on Cold Chillin’. Everybody contributed musically. I was the first artist on Cold Chillin’ to actually get co-production credit. Because all the projects that came out with Marley’s name on ’em, pretty much they were co-produced by the artist, but at that time they weren’t gettin’ the credit for it. That’s why a lot of ’em were mad at him – like Biz and other people. They felt like he was getting too much of the credit, when they were contributing a lot.

Masta Ace – The Unkut Interview – unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)

unkut.com

 

[Awesome Wells]

its def possible Large also did a lot of the intelligent hoodlum album around the same time ......this is how it went down according to Ace

With your first album, I gather you were involved in choosing the records – as far as bringing a record to Marley and saying, ‘Hook this up for me’?

In most cases with Marley, I would bring a sample from my mother’s record collection. I didn’t know how to produce as far as working the equipment – I knew kinda what I wanted it to sound like – but he knew how to work the equipment. So I would bring him a record, he’d listen to it – ‘Yo, this is hot’ – he would sample it, chop it up, add drums and all that stuff, then I would spit the rhymes. It was pretty much that way across the board with most of the artists on Cold Chillin’. Everybody contributed musically. I was the first artist on Cold Chillin’ to actually get co-production credit. Because all the projects that came out with Marley’s name on ’em, pretty much they were co-produced by the artist, but at that time they weren’t gettin’ the credit for it. That’s why a lot of ’em were mad at him – like Biz and other people. They felt like he was getting too much of the credit, when they were contributing a lot.

Masta Ace – The Unkut Interview – unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)

unkut.com

This is what Marley says a lot about his process back then. So it's true. He spoke about how Kane would bring him records.

But Ace always talks a little too reckless, which is why most legends stopped f*cking with him in the 90's and he's basically been a pariah since. Burned too many bridges. He's too gossipy.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

This is what Marley says a lot about his process back then. So it's true. He spoke about how Kane would bring him records.

But Ace always talks a little too reckless, which is why most legends stopped f*cking with him in the 90's and he's basically been a pariah since. Burned too many bridges. He's too gossipy.

In the 2000s, Marley gave an interview saying that in those days he was doing less than before. He said people would bring him everything with samples already chopped up and ready to go . I honestly couldn't believe what I was reading and why he'd agree to that being printed. And this isn't a thread to slander the great Marley Marl at all. Marley is one of the top 5 all time greats if not top 3

 

[Knicksman20]

Sounds like it could be Marley Marl too

 

[I love Latina women]

Take a Look Around is somewhat underrated