Yep.
People always talk about Ice Cube and Public Enemy's "The Bomb Squad" being the first time the East Coast and the West Coast worked together to make a classic album with Ice Cube's 1990 album "Amerikkka's Most Wanted". But it was actually LL Cool J and the West Coast producers, the "L.A. Posse" on LL Cool J's 1987 "BAD" album.
The beat and cuts and the scratching on the song "Get Down" from LL Cool J's BAD album was NEXT LEVEL. The "The L.A. Posse" killed that sh*t. There's no way Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons come have topped what the L.A. Posse did on LL's BAD album.
The "Do Wop" from the BAD album was the sh*t too. Dope old school sample, dope beat, dope scratching and dope storytelling.
This is why I appreciate the Coli