Which Rapper Is The GOAT At Choosing Beats?

[Piff Huxtable]

E-40's first 6 albums

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Jay-Z but there's always a few trash beats on his albums to i think.

 

[bogey_j]

E-40's first 6 albums

Spoiler

mayne I just can' fukk with E-40 at all dude is so corny

 

[The_Third_Man]

It's very hard to find a rapper who has a consistant great prodution.

Curren$y
Ghostface
Kanye West (does he count?)
Guru
Prodigy

 

[FunkyFresh]

MC Eiht

 

[BigL187]

Renzel & Hov

 

[bordeaux]

His last album proved that it's highly likely YAMS had good beat selection. Seeing as how it was pretty much 4/10 at best

wow. respectfully, your taste sucks breh.
id like to nominate outkast.

 

[noumena]

wow. respectfully, your taste sucks breh.
id like to nominate outkast.

Let me get this straight...out of the beats I listed from his new album

we have audio nyquil in fine whine (Rocky has been on beats like this before, but much better executed)

A lazy 3 sec loop that is not only completely uninteresting in excuse me, beats like that have been done much better 20 years prior (RZA is known for dope loops, it fails to mimic his style)

A boring trap beat with weak ass drums and a lot of space in JD

Some absolutely terrible neptunes imitation but without a good melody or drums in Westside Highway (worst rocky song to date)

And another sleepy nyquil ass beat in better things




I can't believe people actually fukked with A.L.L.A.

A genuinely boring and uninspired album, yall must be his street team or something because that album was and still is trash

 

[onlylno]

1. Rick Ross (The goat Ear for beats)
2. Curren$y
3. Jay-Z

 

[Deadman187]

People are really downplaying and sleeping on the production on Jay Z albums post The Black Album. Production wise, Kingdom Come is the only album he's had with weak production and even that had some crazy beats.

Outside of the Timbo records, Vol 3 was weak to me production wise. Dynasty album also had those wack ass Rick Rick beats too

 

[Born2BKing]

Does DJ Khaled count?

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Out of the greats, I'd say Jay. It's a cliche pick, but he had a good ear.

Some others that picked beats I really liked are Currensy, M.O.P., Freddie Gibbs, Busta, Game, Rick Ross, Big Pun, Mega, Fat Joe, Big Pooh, Skyzoo, Torae, Prodigy, Raekwon, AZ...

Can we pick Guru? He was in a group with Preem, but he still was picking beats.

Jay has rapped over a lot of trash

Jay-Z but there's always a few trash beats on his albums to i think.

You guys are right but at the same time he's released more music total than just about anybody, and everyone can't bat one thousand. If you look at his overall output I think his winners outnumber his losers by a good margin. He has a couple albums filled with some really bad beats, but then I then he has at least 2 albums that have almost no wack beats. Then on his mixed bag albums I'd say 2/3rds of the production is really solid (albums like AG and TBA). MCHG is his worst group of beats IMO. KC isn't even as bad production wise as people make it seem. But there was hot garbage on there for sure like Anything, Hollywood, and Dig a Hole.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Outside of the Timbo records, Vol 3 was weak to me production wise. Dynasty album also had those wack ass Rick Rick beats too

People love or hate those Rick Rock beats. I liked Squeeze 1st though. I wouldn't even say it's a great beat but it sounded good with those raps. The others he did on there I can leave.


Dynasty is a mixed bag. But some of those beats were used for freestyles on mixtapes and on hot 97/Shade 45 freestyles for years.

Dynasty Intro, You Me Him Her, 1-900 Hustler, Soon You'll Understand, Where Have You Been, Squeeze 1st, The R.O.C., This Can't Be Life, I Just Wanna Love You, Streets is Talking, Stick 2 the Script, all fire or very good IMO.

Some beats haven't aged well at all and don't sound that good today but also didn't suck that bad for that time...like Guilty Until Innocent, Get Your Mind Right Mami, Holla, Parking Lot Pimpin, and Change the Game. A lot of them just sound real generic and dated now.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Out of the greats, I'd say Jay. It's a cliche pick, but he had a good ear.

Some others that picked beats I really liked are Currensy, M.O.P., Freddie Gibbs, Busta, Game, Rick Ross, Big Pun, Mega, Fat Joe, Big Pooh, Skyzoo, Torae, Prodigy, Raekwon, AZ...

Can we pick Guru? He was in a group with Preem, but he still was picking beats.





You guys are right but at the same time he's released more music total than just about anybody, and everyone can't bat one thousand. If you look at his overall output I think his winners outnumber his losers by a good margin. He has a couple albums filled with some really bad beats, but then I then he has at least 2 albums that have almost no wack beats. Then on his mixed bag albums I'd say 2/3rds of the production is really solid (albums like AG and TBA). MCHG is his worst group of beats IMO. KC isn't even as bad production wise as people make it seem. But there was hot garbage on there for sure like Anything, Hollywood, and Dig a Hole.

yeh, you said exactly the beats i hated on KC.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

yeh, you said exactly the beats i hated on KC.

Yeah man. That album is one of the worst blue ball albums of all time. You get Prelude, Oh My God, and Kingdom Come. Then that shyt sort of goes down big time. I still think there are other good beats on there. Trouble is cool. The Kanye beat with John Legend is good. Lost One is good. Minority Report is cool. So is 30's the new 20. It's just that the bad beats are really bad.