why does the e double get left out of the top 5 hip hop producer talk?

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he 1 of the pioneers in this shyt and yet nikkas nowadays don't hardly ever bring his name into the conversation anymore or even give him his props like that

erick had 1 helluva run as a producer; from epmd, to his solo albums, red's and keith murray's albums, his insomnia compilation album and then the def squad album, el nino. plus his remixes in the 90's were the shyt

nikkas done forgot, erick brought the funk to hip hop with the funk records he sampled. his beats were funky!

outside of timbaland, erick got the best drums in hip hop too







 

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Strange huh...sermon da gawd.

Him and jermaine dupri gotta be the two most underappreciated urban music producers.
 

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Erick isn't mentioned as much as he should be because of the unfair East Coast bias that exists in hip hop, according to bigbadbossup. Wait...........
 

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One of my favorite producers AND Mcs...i think he gets lost in the shuffle just based on how many other producers there are who might have one more hit than him or just a slight bit more influence or commercial appeal.

Ask artists who their top 10 is and i guarantee he's in a bunch of them...and if he's not i can bet an EPMD album or two are in their top 10 albums.

Its weird for me though because i stan Erick but i dont really bump no EPMD like that...i always thought PMD was kinda wack lol.
 

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Sermon was producing cross over hit singles into the 2000s though

yeah but look who he's going toe to toe with that also made an impact in those years

you are talking about top 10 or even 5, of course eric will get left out


if you do a list based on a certain year or years sure eric will be on a list but overall list? probs not
 

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Once it came out PMD had as heavy a hand in EPMD production it kinda changed things. E Serm legendary post EPMD regardless but his most notable work is EPMD. He's top 15 no doubt.
 

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yeah but look who he's going toe to toe with that also made an impact in those years

you are talking about top 10 or even 5, of course eric will get left out


if you do a list based on a certain year or years sure eric will be on a list but overall list? probs not
thats basically the gist of his career. he's always behind somebody. he had a Curtis Martin-esque career...No bad...but the great was usually outshined by something greater or just hotter at the moment
 
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