Some People Call This Producing, I Call It Finessing

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Puff potential 20

1- Craig Mack - Flava in ya year
2- Total / Big - can’t t you see
3- Notorious Big - Juicy
4- Faith Evans - you used to love me
5- Jodeci - come and talk to me
6- Mary J Blige - real love
7- 112 - only you (original and remix)
8- Mase / Total - tell me what you want
9- Mase - Feel so good
10- Mariah Carey - Fantasy
11- Puff/Big - Victory
12- Notorious - warning
13- Notorious - Big poppa
14- Notorious - the world is filled or Notorious Thugs
15 - Puff /Mase / Big - Been around the world
16 - Notorious - one more chance remix
17- Notorious - hypnotize
18- Notorious / Puff / Mase - mo money mo problems
19- Puff / lox/ big - all about the Benjamin’s
20- Notorious/ Puff - who shot ya

Bonus rounds
21. Mary J Blige - What’s the 4-1-1 ft Grand Puba or Biggie version
22- Supercat ft Third Eye, Biggie - Dolly my baby
23- Faith Evans - Love like this
24- Mariah Carey - Honey
25- MC Lyte/ Missy - Cold Rock a Party
26- KRS - One Step into our world
27- Jay-z - where I’m from or Roc Boys
28- Lox - Money, Power, Respect
29- Lil Kim - No time or Crush on you
30 -Junior Mafia - Get Money

:mjlol: how is Puff getting enough credit to use a beat like Warning in his battle, that's all easy moe bee:laff:. Mad beats on your list are :deadmanny:
 

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Breh, the opening post was an example :dahell: And you keep harping on the fact he doesn’t have a production credit on that song, when I’ve already pointed out he has a writing credit, which is worse. Considering this is the man who had to outsource the lyrics to a Rest In Peace song to his friend, and is famous for not writing. The whole flow and everything was obviously Pharrell. What did Bluffy do, change a word or two :mjlol:

Aslo, are you a fan of hip hop? Do you not know this shyt has been said before by people in the industry? People he’s worked with? nikka are you signed to bad boy or something?


From Pete Rock on how Bluffy stole Juicy

The question over who actually produced “Juicy” started in a 2004 Wax Poeticsinterview with legendary producer Pete Rock. In addition to saying that Q-Tip took the beat for A Tribe Called Quest’s “"); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">Jazz” without giving him proper credit, Pete said that Puffy more or less stole the “Juicy” beat from him. “I did the original version, didn’t get credit for it,” he "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">explained. “He heard that shyt and the next thing you know it comes out. They had me do a remix, but I tell people, and I will fight it to the end, that I did the original version of that.”

Despite Pete’s version of the backstory, the liner notes of Ready to Die list Poke of The Trackmasters and Puffy as the song’s producers instead of Pete Rock. Pete said he wasn’t angry about the slight, but it seemed at the time of the interview he felt burned by several instances of not receiving appropriate credit for his work. “I’m not mad at anybody,” he "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">told Wax Poetics. “I just want the correct credit. fukk that. Y’all can’t just be robbing mu’fukkas. If you didn’t do the work, I’ma expose you.”


From a complex article with the Trackmasters:

In part one of our epic conversation, the duo talked about getting in the game, the last days of Cold Chillin’ Records, and the rise of Bad Boy Records. They had plenty of stories to share, including how Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs (as he was known back in those days) was the master of taking credit and a hilarious story about how Steve Stoutebecame their manager.

From that same article

Poke: “Obviously. I don’t know when the last time I heard the original. Back then, anything that came out under Bad Boy was Puffy’s record. So he does take credit. Sometimes not on purpose, but just because it came out on Bad Boy.”

:mjlol:

Puff goes in, he puts the proper team together, a hit record comes out, and he takes the [credit]. He’s the pool shark, he’s the best at getting credit. He knows how to seize the opportunity to make sure the credit favors him. - Poke

you think Puff cares what Tone and Poke or Pete Rock say about juicy. Those dudes fighting each other about a juicy fruit sample that puffy had an idea for and made successful before them. What they say holds no weight and they looked at as bitter and jealous.
 

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:mjlol: how is Puff getting enough credit to use a beat like Warning in his battle, that's all easy moe bee:laff:. Mad beats on your list are :deadmanny:

When puff plays his records that he produced in a battle you can’t deny it. Don’t be mad after the fact it’s been 25 years now.
 

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I remember this one beat that the bad boy team was making for Biggie's album and Diddy just rolled dice and added that to the beat. It was some footage that was part of this Biggie documentary that used to air on BET. Not sure if anyone will remember what I'm talking about but I remember that lol.
 

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Stop playin'. Puff has no credits on that song because he contributed nothing to it. It was Premo's idea to sample "I Put A Spell On You". He found the sample and flipped it with is own drums, scratches, etc.

Biggie has a production credit for the "B.I.G Interlude" on LAD. You really think he made the beat? Who did he finesse out of credits?

Big hit credit because maybe it was his his idea of wanting to freestyle over Schooly D's "PSK".

that’s right
 

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If you have people under you who you direct as far as arranging vocals/music, your a producer..
They dont know what a real producer is.

Beatmaker and Producer arent the same thing although in our culture they are used interchangeably. Usually you're both, sometimes you are just the executive producer and bring value by taking a record, pulling it apart and making some changes and making the record a hit
 

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That's true of other genres, but in hip hop the role of the producer has been synonmous with the beat maker. If you ain't involved in making the beat in hip hop I'm sorry but I can't call you a producer.

I'm sorry but this ain't about Quincy Jones shyt. Hip Hop at its fundementals is a ELECTRONIC form of music. The beat maker is king. I'm getting sick of people continuing to dismiss the role of the beat maker. On a musical level...the beat maker is still king in hip hop. I don't give a fukk. Dre, Puffy, Kanye...they can add some icing on top...but at the end of the day hip hop is a different beast to more traditional pop/rock/r&b forms of music. It is a beat driven form of music. Traditional producing can still play a role but not to the level of other forms of music.

Hip hop should have room to evolve...

Its dope that someone can bring in a drummer etc and approach a hip hop album from a different perspective...
 

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Here is Ddot posting this video of dr Dre today. This will school a lot of people on this board that don’t know what a producer is and how Puff crafted hit records. Big difference between a beat maker and producer as Dre says...y’all gonna learn today!

 

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that’s your opinion and your subjective to that however you don’t make the rules for hiphop or who is a producer or what a producer is. I respect beatmakers with the technical skills, there’s hundreds of thousands of beat makers out there right now knocking out dope samples and concepts in their home studios but they are not at a level that they can produce hit records. There’s producers out there in the music industry / business and then there’s elite top tier producers that make hit records. And puff is one of the elite.
Kanye can actually make beats by himself with no help. Dre early stuff is sample based then he started using session musicians but that's why his beats sound so good from the real instruments. Diddy I think just finds samples and tells producers to make beats out of it.
 

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Dudes in here talking about a handful of “visionary” producers who can make hits when 99% of hits from the last 20+ years have been someone sending a beat to someone who sent their verse to someone else over email :mjlol:


And most of the people who have crossed into that realm are people who started a name from producing beats i.e Kanye, Neptunes, Dre, Pierre Bourne, metro boomin etc...

these visionary nikkas are just scammers like French Montana
 
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