The 20 best produced albums ever

[Ohene]

1 The Chronic
2 The Infamous
3 Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
4 E.1999 Eternal
5 Diplomatic Immunity
6 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
7 Reasonable Doubt
8 No Way Out
9 Me Against the World
10 2001
11 Hell on Earth
12 Regulate G Funk Era
13 Supa Dupa Fly
14 The Cold Vein
15 Doggystyle
16 Ghetto D
17 Watch the Throne
18 The Score
19 The War Report
20 Life After Death

Honorable mention: When the Smoke Clears / nikkaz4Life

Try and dispute this
No Gangstarr joints. No Tribe joints. No Pete Rock either get mad

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

2001 should be #1 imo.

 

[Ohene]

2001 should be #1 imo.

#19 breh

 

[CM_Burns]

I don't trust anyone's ears who puts E 99 over 2001

 

[Ohene]

I don't trust anyone's ears who puts E 99 over 2001

I might be biased because I'm listening to E.1999 right now. The "In the Rain" sample in Da Introduction is actually what influenced me to make this thread.

I'll take E.1999 over 2001 personally but the order isnt important. to me this is the definitive list of greatly produced albums.

I kinda wanna squeeze critical beatdown in there though. 20 is hard .

 

[ISO]

Diplomatic Immunity? Some of the shyt on there wasn't even original production.

No Midnight Marauders? No Illmatic?

 

[Ohene]

Diplomatic Immunity? Some of the shyt on there wasn't even original production.

No Midnight Marauders? No Illmatic?

compared to the shyt I listed? Nah

 

[Why-Fi]

peoples instinctive travels? pauls boutique? main ingredient

terrible list

edit: oh this is personal list...thought this was from a blog somewhere

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

are we including mixing ?

 

[2stainz]

Eric B on Follow the Leader >> half of that list, Doggystyle should in no way be behind RD for production

and Watch the Throne? cmon breh.....

anyway, its your list & your opinion so for a couple good choices there

 

[Ohene]

peoples instinctive travels? pauls boutique? main ingredient

terrible list

edit: oh this is personal list...thought this was from a blog somewhere

lol do you really wanna go there breh. there is no way any of those three albums are better than what I listed

the main ingredient has many dry skippables due to stale production at points. Center of Attention might even be better.
beastie boys

 

[Zach Lowe]

Diplomatic Immunity? Some of the shyt on there wasn't even original production.

didn't naS just rap on a 10 year old dilla beat and say "the past like my ass is behind me"

 

[Ohene]

Eric B on Follow the Leader >> half of that list, Doggystyle should in no way be behind RD for production

and Watch the Throne? cmon breh.....

anyway, its your list & your opinion so for a couple good choices there

Murder to Excellence alone > all of Follow the Leader

i wont lie though. i specifically tried to include music from all regions and time periods. otherwise there'd be a lot more NY stuf

 

[intilectual recipricol]

compared to the shyt I listed? Nah

that fakket @ISOMELO listin the worst soundin shyt ever...

 

[Corndog]

Look everyone's opinions are their own, but if you're going to do an 'indisputable' top 20 produced albums list and you find yourself leaving off DJ Quik you need stop for a minute and reconsider. Maybe your head's just not in the right place at the moment, maybe you need to fall back and bump Safe + Sound or Rhythmalism and then come back and try again later.