From my knowledge Thats actually only half true. According to Lp, Tip did not start actually get into the technical part of producing, till he began making beats for Nas like one love. Im thinking thats right before Electric Relax. Like Puff who he inspired, and many of his comptemporaries he was a record junky. If you watch their Doc, he shows you his knowledge of sampling earlier on was as vast as using a tape deck to make loops into beats. This a part of music history that seems to be completely foreign to todays audience. The production side back then was always 3 fold, artist, artist/dj, and then engineer. Most of the engineers early on were white guys, and Dj/Artists would submit records for samples and give their vision. Great engineers were the key to success before artists/djs started learning the machines themselves. Gods like Paul C could make visions into life.
Why?? 'Cause the white guy was always the one with all the gear and knew the studio techniques to get sounds u didn't know could be on a rap record

