I loved Pete Rock's SP-1200 phase and analog sound.
Any beat, take your pick. Mecca & the Soul Brotha and The Main Ingredient.
The interlude/snippets on those albums
That smoothness. Those grooves. Those sample selections. The extra grit from the SP-1200.
The Blue Funk album joints he did for his cousin Heavy D.
Pete's sound was unlike no other. Just some good stuff.
His stuff after that era was cool, but I'm partial to his older stuff. Hard to pick favorite beats from that era because most of it was just that good.