Best produced album of 1998: Moment of Truth, Rhythm-al-Ism, 400 Degreez, Aquemini or Soul Survivor?

[DillaTUDE]

How many years since hip-hop has begun can you list that have been responsible for as many greatly produced albums as was the case in 1998? I didn't even list albums like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Capital Punishment, Retaliation, Revenge & Getback, How U Luv That Vol. 1 & 2, Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, Bobby Digital in Stereo or The Pillage among plenty of other hip-hop albums that year which were well produced.

So what's your pick?

 

[ManxOfxThexYear]

Aquemini, best album between these albums and its not even close

 

[The Ruler 09]

Out of the list Moment Of Truth jumps out at me. Excellent production.

 

[Big Mel]

 

[spliz]

U didn't list "Its Dark and Hell is Hot"..."NORE" and a few others...

 

[Oroko Saki]

From that list Moment of Truth easily

 

[kp404]

From the list, Aquemini, but Moment of truth is close behind...

Disgusted that Its Dark and hell is Hot is not on this list though

 

[DillaTUDE]

U didn't list "Its Dark and Hell is Hot"..."NORE" and a few others...

Those are great albums but this thread is strictly talking about production. I don't IDAHIH and NORE rival the albums I listed production wise.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Aquemini then Soul Survivor for me

400 Degreez is classic but i dont love every beat necessarily

 

[spliz]

Those are great albums but this thread is strictly talking about production. I don't IDAHIH and NORE rival the albums I listed production wise.

U sure bout that?...DMX 's album influenced east coast hip hop's sound for like the next 2 years after it dropped...Dame Grease blessed that album and it was the birth of Swizzy..if some of those albums u named can be mentioned..so can X's...

 

[Big Mel]

M.O.P's album absolutely has wall to wall stellar production and deserves a mention.

 

[Big Mel]

U sure bout that?...DMX 's album influenced east coast hip hop's sound for like the next 2 years after it dropped...Dame Grease blessed that album and it was the birth of Swizzy...

Those are all really bad things in many people's opinion. Snuffed out sample based music and led to the dark ages of black music we're still in to this day.

 

[spliz]

Those are all really bad things in many people's opinion. Snuffed out sample based music and led to the dark ages of black music we're still in to this day.

But it's ok to list 400 degrees tho?..Dame Grease blessed that album and one of Dmx's downfalls is that he got rid of Dame Grease and went strictly Swizzy...and that's who everybody else ended up goin with..and THAT was the problem being that Swizz was more of a simple producer....there was nothing wrong with Dame's production...

 

[ManBearPig]

moment of truth

 

[DillaTUDE]

I can't believe I forgot about "Tim's Bio" by Timbaland.

But it's ok to list 400 degrees tho?..Dame Grease blessed that album and one of Dmx's downfalls is that he got rid of Dame Grease and went strictly Swizzy...and that's who everybody else ended up goin with...there was nothing wrong with Dame's production...

From a production standpoint, 400 Degreez is a hip-hop masterpiece. The drum programming is light years ahead of anything every hip-hop producer in the game was doing not named Timbaland.

You could play the instrumental for "Ha" and "Back That Azz Up" today and it'd still sound as amazing as ever. I love IDAHIH, but "For My Dogs", "Crime Story" and "How It's Goin' Down" haven't aged too gracefully.

400 Degreez production is exotic as hell, while IDAHIH just sounds like the conventional late 90s East Coast hip-hop album production wise.