There's no excuse for bad production in 2014.

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The best production don't come cheap. I bet a lot of these rappers don't have the pockets or the budget to get a beat from a top of the line producer unless it's on some favor for a favor type shyt.
 

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bad production is bad production

but music is music. you are talking in the same tones that alot of guys from the drum and bass genre judge things and thats from an engineering standpoint. from a sonic perspective things are great on all ends, but are these new crop of producers more talented than your classically trained pianist who can orchestrate ACTUAL MUSICAL CONCEPTS? No. Very few producers stand out. Even me, i sound like some cheap version of alchemist/dj krush.
 

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is this more about the mainstream sonic landscape in general .
pretty much being DJ uneek crossroads level twenty years plus, ago
mixed with triple six's mystic styles to the here and now,...
being the only acceptable type of production.
or everyone has to rap over Madonna rays of light slash depeche mode style production.
to basically ripoff triphop prduction from maxinquaye to portishead style production.
or is this coming from a person who just does not like differing types of rap production in different genres.


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The Super Producer era is over with, and no one can charge rappers 500k for a hot beat anymore.
Kanye, Just Blaze, and Swizz Beats might be able to ask that much, but it's only Top 40 pop charts rappers who are gonna pay that kinda money for them.
 

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The best production don't come cheap. I bet a lot of these rappers don't have the pockets or the budget to get a beat from a top of the line producer unless it's on some favor for a favor type shyt.

bullshyt, ive heard better production lately from no name youtube and soundcloud cats than i have big named producers.

asap got some of the best production right now, and they mostly use no name producers.
 

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Kanye, Just Blaze, and Swizz Beats might be able to ask that much, but it's only Top 40 pop charts rappers who are gonna pay that kinda money for them.

Yeah, but I consider Just Blaze top 10 producer, but I bet eve he sells cheaper these days.
 

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Yeah, but I consider Just Blaze top 10 producer, but I bet eve he sells cheaper these days.

Definitely, it's crazy how many producers and "producers" there are out there, these guys have no choice but to basically take what they can get.

Any jackass with a USB record player, a MIDI Pad controller, and some recording software (including myself) can make beats and come up with something at least half decent.
 
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