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

[Big Mel]

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...

400 degrees being on this list made me chuckle but I don't feel like stirring that pot.

 

[spliz]

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



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.

both them shyts sound like the era they came from imo..."How's it goin down" hasn't aged gracefully to u?...funny cause I just recently played that track and people was singin along to it...I mean u can name the Juvy singles and people would go crazy if u play the beats...u right...Same thing would happen if u threw on the Ruff Ryders Anthem beat...and that's the most simple beat out of all of the ones u named....and IDAHIH wasn't conventional sounding when it dropped...it sounded like nothing before it...

 

[spliz]

400 degrees being on this list made me chuckle but I don't feel like stirring that pot.

Lol...

 

[pointproven214]

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...

this and kinda of backwards if u ask me dame grease and swizz beatz had fire beats in their prime with that said i like 400 degereez nd outkast aquemini imo

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Aquemini.

For the fact that most of those albums listed are predominantly one sound.

 

[Ashtrey]

Aquemini could drop now and it would sound new and fresh

 

[CM_Burns]

1.Quik
2.Pete Rock
3.Premo

Aquemini had a few wack beats.

Wish I could find this instrumental

 

[BruhMayne]

400 Degreez by Juvenile Produced by Juvenile

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Aquemini.

For the fact that most of those albums listed are predominantly one sound.

This - you didn't know what was coming next after every single song on the first listen.

SpottieOttieDopalicious is still one of the high water marks of Black music in the 90's for me.

 

[mobbinfms]

400 Degreez by Juvenile Produced by Juvenile

Got a problem with the new production credits pleighboi

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Moment of truth

 

[num123]

 

[Taadow]

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

*came in to ask why Tim's Bio wasn't listed*



...and what do you mean "produced by Juvenile"??

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I picked Moment of Truth. In retrospect, I should have chose Aquemini

 

[Insensitive]

@ y'all for not giving Quik his due.

Rhythm-al-ism, not because the other albums aren't great
but because people just don't seem to see how GOOD that album is.
The production is fvcking outstanding, in my opinion it can
hang with any album on this list