Give Mike Dean (Kanye co-producer) his props

[45123]

Mike Dean is the dude who adds all the dope bridges and little instruments on Kanye's tracks.

Recently he did work on Magna Carta Holy Grail w/ Somewhere in America & Crown. He did the outro to those two songs, which are without a doubt two of the best moments on the album.

Without Mike Dean, Kanye's beats right now wouldn't be shyt. He is responsible for the subtleties and dope harmonies and melodies Kanye has in most of his songs. He also mixes and masters a lot of Kanye's shyt as well.

Dating back though, he worked with a lot of southern rappers (Geto Boys, UGK, Z-Ro, Devin the Dude, etc.)

Look him up on Wikipedia for his producer credits

 

[Harry B]

Without Mike Dean, Kanye's beats wouldn't be shyt?
I think it's more reasonable to assume that without Kanye, Mike Dean wouldn't be shyt.

Still here to appreciate, even though I can't agree with 80% of the appreciation post.

Kanye has been schooling him on that East Coast/Mid West/Kanye West production tip.
He's been working for Kanye as an engineer since Kanye came in the game to mixing to additional production to as of lately full production credits mainly playing instruments and mixing.

 

[45123]

Without Mike Dean, Kanye's beats wouldn't be shyt?
I think it's more reasonable to assume that without Kanye, Mike Dean wouldn't be shyt.

Still here to appreciate, even though I can't agree with 80% of the appreciation post.

Kanye has been schooling him on that East Coast/Mid West/Kanye West production tip.
He's been working for Kanye as an engineer since Kanye came in the game to mixing to additional production to as of lately full production credits mainly playing instruments and mixing.

"Wouldn't be shyt" was an obvious exaggeration, but he is still largely responsible for a lot of Kanye's signature subtleties. Either way, his contributions to everything are very enjoyable for my ear

 

[Awesome Wells]

Mike Dean's always been the shyt, but he hasn't taken Kanye's shyt to any level that it already wasn't on.

Jon Brion brought more musicality to Ye's music than anyone else. Dude's an actual composer. I wish he would've stuck with him and made more shyt.

 

[45123]

Mike Dean's always been the shyt, but he hasn't taken Kanye's shyt to any level that it already wasn't on.

Jon Brion brought more musicality to Ye's music than anyone else. Dude's an actual composer. I wish he would've stuck with him and made more shyt.

Kanye's last 4 albums all had heavy producer credits from Mike Dean, and his last 4 albums are on a whole new level in terms of musicality and complexity.

 

[AkaDemiK]

yea...he adds a lot to records

 

[Awesome Wells]

Kanye's last 4 albums all had heavy producer credits from Mike Dean, and his last 4 albums are on a whole new level in terms of musicality and complexity.

How were they any more complex or musical than Late Registration?

 

[45123]

How were they any more complex or musical than Late Registration?

Late Reg was just complex/musical cuz Jon Brion added a whole bunch of orchestra sounds on it, but you seriously can't tell me albums like Yeezus and MBDTF weren't a clusterfukk more complex than Late Reg


I'm not even hating on Kanye, I defend him at all times when people front on his producing

 

[Harry B]

"Wouldn't be shyt" was an obvious exaggeration, but he is still largely responsible for a lot of Kanye's signature subtleties. Either way, his contributions to everything are very enjoyable for my ear

From being an underground pioneer doing straight southern shyt to restarting his career as one of like 7 engineers for Kanye to being the a-list most trusted.
Is an impressive trip but he's not the one making Kanye. Any good multi-instrumentalist is what Kanye needs the fact that Mike Dean has a "dirty" mixing and production style has however added a lot to Kanye's music. That I will agree on.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I remember nikkaz was sayin they didnt wanna hear jon brion's work on Ye's albums. Funny, when LR is easily one of Kanye's best albums.

But yeah, mike dean been in the game for a while. He got a lot of money from his uncle, jimmy dean (the sausage nikka), which is how he got all his production equipment

 

[Awesome Wells]

Late Reg was just complex/musical cuz Jon Brion added a whole bunch of orchestra sounds on it, but you seriously can't tell me albums like Yeezus and MBDTF weren't a clusterfukk more complex than Late Reg


I'm not even hating on Kanye, I defend him at all times when people front on his producing

Kanye himself said that LR was his most "musical" album, which is why he wanted to get with some 808's for a stripped down sound and holla at Toomp on Graduation. MBDTF was overproduced, Ye' just spoke about that recently. That's not complex or musical, by any means. Yeezus is just garbage, very poorly executed. Timbaland spoke on this two days ago. He brought in a cat who does actual film scores for LR, the entire sound bed of that album was lush.

That shyt was a masterpiece! They brought in orchestras and had composers layering shyt over MPC loops. Easily his best produced album.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

mike dean--)kaseem dean

 

[ThaRealness]

Kanye's last 4 albums all had heavy producer credits from Mike Dean, and his last 4 albums are on a whole new level in terms of musicality and complexity.

WTT isnt really

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Don't forget his work with Daz on Dillinger & Young Gotti. Best Daz beats sounded since Dogg Food.

 

[Zach Lowe]

He did the outro to those two songs

Link?