Rappers that stopped using the producers they blew up with

[Sauce Dab]

Artists don’t like to be pigeonholed, sticking with ONE sound or group of producers can become boring, repetitive, and unchallenging.

Imagine going to a Nas concert and ALL the songs were only produced by Premo and Large Professor.

Going to a Jay-Z concert and ALL the songs are by Ski and Clark Kent?

Imagine if Common stuck with NO ID and NEVER worked with Kanye?


Matter of fact the suggestion that artists should “stick” with their initial producers is a TERRIBLE idea!

In the music game it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If you stick with one producer then fans are like “you should switch it up” if you switch it up then fans are like “why did you switch up?”

 

[JustCKing]

I didn't think the thread was necessarily condemning artists for working with other producers as much as it is simply acknowledging the fact they stopped working with the producer they blew up with.

 

[Reptile]

Artists don’t like to be pigeonholed, sticking with ONE sound or group of producers can become boring, repetitive, and unchallenging.

Imagine going to a Nas concert and ALL the songs were only produced by Premo and Large Professor.

Going to a Jay-Z concert and ALL the songs are by Ski and Clark Kent?

Imagine if Common stuck with NO ID and NEVER worked with Kanye?


Matter of fact the suggestion that artists should “stick” with their initial producers is a TERRIBLE idea!

Why you yelling?

 

[Metal Face]

Imagine going to a Nas concert and ALL the songs were only produced by Premo and Large Professor.

sounds like a good time

 

[tuckgod]

Rza was borderline done by the time Immobilarity dropped)

To this day I just don’t understand it.

How do you go from absolute greatness to total shyt over night?

It just doesn’t make sense.

Was the dust really responsible for all that early wu-tang heat?

 

[tuckgod]

They all do it.

Rappers are idiots and most of them don’t know shyt about real music.

The ones that hurt are Jay stepping away from the Ski - Preemo - Clark Kent team and BCC stepping away from Beatminerz.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Mac Mall/Mac Dre and Khayree -- what could have been.

I know Mall eventually went back to Khayree twice for Illegall Business 2000 and that Revolution album but the magic was gone at that point.

2pac and all those wack ass producers he had on the first two albums.... that was for the better though

Cam/Diplomats and Heatmakerz

8ball and MJG - T-Mixx

 

[Ziggiy]

sounds like a good time

If your a fan of Jeru The Damaja sure

The rest of us will take If I Ruled The World, Affirmative Action, Street Dreams, Hate Me Now, Last Words, Find Ya Wealth, Got Yourself A Gun, One Mic, What Goes Around, Get Down, Made You Look, I Can, Book Of Rhymes, Thief’s Theme, Bridging The Gap, Black Republican, etc with the QUICKNESS

 

[Food Mane]

lil wayne and mannie fresh has to be the best example of this. No Mannie Fresh beats after Carter 1

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

To this day I just don’t understand it.

How do you go from absolute greatness to total shyt over night?

It just doesn’t make sense.

Was the dust really responsible for all that early wu-tang heat?

He was feeling himself. He started buying all of these keyboards and thinking he was Chopin and got away from the simple shyt that made him great like digging in the crates. Plus he didn't want to to keep paying sample clearances. Greed!!!

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

DMX and Dame Grease

Swizz was his #1 homeboy in the streets and whatever I won't knock that but that nikka production was trash Grease had that real grimy shyt that made X sound that much better

That was a label move. Swizz' uncles and aunt owned the label. If you listen to DMX first album, Dame and PK carried and did the best songs, but they wanted their newphew to get the shine. So they rushed a 2nd album of bullshyt and PK on only 2 tracks still outshined Swizz. And it continued with the 3rd album. This was a move by the label.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Artists don’t like to be pigeonholed, sticking with ONE sound or group of producers can become boring, repetitive, and unchallenging.

Imagine going to a Nas concert and ALL the songs were only produced by Premo and Large Professor.

Going to a Jay-Z concert and ALL the songs are by Ski and Clark Kent?

Imagine if Common stuck with NO ID and NEVER worked with Kanye?


Matter of fact the suggestion that artists should “stick” with their initial producers is a TERRIBLE idea!

I agree with this, but leaving a great producer and getting inferior producers is borderline stupidity. Jeru leaving Primo to produce for himself basically killed his own career. Common leaving No Id to go to Dilla and Kanye wasn't a bad move. Slick rick going from Bomb Squad to Vance Wright ( due to awaiting prison sentence) was a HORRIBLE MOVE!!!

 

[MoveForward]

Toomp want super producer budgets

this ain't back in the day

he claimed T.I. tried to lowball him or something. they had an issue.

Not true, I know Toomp personally.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Mac Mall/Mac Dre and Khayree -- what could have been.

I know Mall eventually went back to Khayree twice for Illegall Business 2000 and that Revolution album but the magic was gone at that point.

2pac and all those wack ass producers he had on the first two albums.... that was for the better though

Cam/Diplomats and Heatmakerz

8ball and MJG - T-Mixx

Stricly 4 my nikkaz production was SOLID. I don't understand what you're talking about haha. Live squad always laced Pac with heat. And Bobcat is one of the greatest producers that most of you have never heard of. He's been behind some of the biggest songs and albums in hip hop history and never became a household name.

 

[born of fire]

lil wayne and mannie fresh has to be the best example of this. No Mannie Fresh beats after Carter 1

mannie had one on tha carter v -- "start this shyt off right"