Hip-Hop's greatest audio achievements/Best engineered albums

[daze23]

"recorded and mixed at stretch's crib"

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DePFeEXasGw[/ame]

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

There's also albums that are not meant to be sonicaly perfect, and the producer and engineer purposly record them tracks with dirt because the artist want it to sound grimy. That's the case with Illmatic, 36th chambers and east coast 90's albums in general

 

[bigrodthe1]

All of Ice Cube's albums are engineered REALLY well...I'm a sound engineer and I always tried to get my tracks to sound like his.

 

[Mac Casper]

All of Ice Cube's albums are engineered REALLY well...I'm a sound engineer and I always tried to get my tracks to sound like his.

War and Peace were definitely engineered well

 

[The Real]

Paul's Boutique. The engineering and mixing on that album is crazy. Many were jealous when it dropped.

 

[jerzboy]

From a mixing and mastering perspective,

1. 2001 - Dr. Dre (1999)
2. All Eyez on Me - 2Pac (1996)
3. Trauma - DJ Quik (2005)
4. Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg (1993)
5. The Chronic - Dr. Dre (1992)

I see a pattern here....

 

[jerzboy]

Paul's Boutique. The engineering and mixing on that album is crazy. Many were jealous when it dropped.

It was more so the beats and numerous samples that flipped people's mind

 

[Mac Casper]

I see a pattern here....

 

[The Real]

It was more so the beats and numerous samples that flipped people's mind

Of course, but listen to it again and compare it to other releases from 89... it's not just the beats.

 

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

Section 80 is a sonic masterpiece.

Section.80 is not on GKMC level in terms of mixing (the best sounding hip hop album of the decade so far)

Quik's last album was too

Spoiler

 

[HollywoodP]

One of the most underrated albums sonically speaking...is The Untouchable by Scarface.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-sgMWC_aM"]SCARFACE - SOUTHSIDE - YouTube[/ame]

Mike Dean on them boards.

 

[Heretic]

aside from some already mentioned, Atliens caught me immediately by how clean it sounded.

 

[StatUS]

Recently, Good Kid MAAD City and Take Care were well mixed albums.

Of course The Chronic stands up 20 years after, it didn't even need to be re-mastered really.

 

[Dead End]

There's a difference between good mixing and just making the mix loud. Some of these albums posted so far are just mixed loud.

 

[Ezus Jezus]

Section.80 is not on GKMC level in terms of mixing (the best sounding hip hop album of the decade so far)

Quik's last album was too

DJ Quik - Fire & Brimstone - YouTube

DJ Quik Feat. BlaKKazz K.K. - The Book of David - Poppin - YouTube

Spoiler

DJ Quik - The Book of David (Full Album) - YouTube

I didnt say that GKMC wasn't mised well. I swear nikkas just don't want to give this body of works its just due.