The 20 Best Q-Tip Beats According to OkayPlayer [Agree/Disagree?]

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Lyrics To Go is my number one also.

Inside My Love has been sampled over 150 times and no one to this day has touched what Tip did with it

On a related note though, Timbaland was a beast in the 90s. His flip of it is so ridiculous more people didnt notice it

 

[nieman]

That list looks kinda lazy. All those consecutive artists back to back, really?They got #1 right though

No “God Lives Through”? And if you were going to take a beat off the last Tribe album how could it not be “Ego”?

I came in to say this EXACT same thing


And Lyrics to Go is #1

 

[L. Deezy]

I cant rank them, but lyrics to go uses the best sample play ever... I remember when I was young thinking the high pitch sound in the song was a keyboard note being held down but it was Minnie Ripperton hitting her famous high note on LOOP

 

[tuckgod]

No Versus from the Abstract, Vibes and Stuff, or Excursions, list is trash

 

[Funcrusher]

I forgot Pad & pen earlier, that's a top 5 Q-Tip beat for me.

 

[Edub]

1. Electric relax
2. Crooklyn
3. Temp rising

 

[Yinny]

I’m not familiar with which songs Tip specifically produced to have an opinion but I don’t hate this list.

If he produced it, I would put Butter over one of those remixes. And vibes and stuff.

 

[BUSINESS AS USUAL]

Temperatures rising remix and god lives through gotta be on there

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Inside My Love has been sampled over 150 times and no one to this day has touched what Tip did with it

On a related note though, Timbaland was a beast in the 90s. His flip of it is so ridiculous more people didnt notice it

Eazy Mo Bee also sampled it on Me Against the World and I NEVER noticed it until I heard just the instrumental:

 

[FunkDoc1112]

No Versus from the Abstract, Vibes and Stuff, or Excursions, list is trash

Excursions is number 9

 

[tuckgod]

Excursions is number 9

It’s actually 10

The other two I named that you ignored are even better

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Eazy Mo Bee also sampled it on Me Against the World and I NEVER noticed it until I heard just the instrumental:

That's Soulshock & Karlin, not Mo Bee

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

I don't make or think about lists but they mostly made great choices from what I see

 

[The War Report]

Great list, I'd order it differently but Q-Tip is probably the most underrated producer ever. Him and Dilla did their thing on Beats, Rhymes, and Life. I feel like that album is so underappreciated.

Been listening to that album a lot recently. I think it’s a dope album. Really good album. For other artists that would be considered their best work.

 

[The War Report]

Midnight and God Lives Through.