The Alchemist shows off the similarities between the Kendrick Lamar “Meet the Grahams” beat and the Prodigy “Keep It Thoro” beat.

[jilla82]

has there been another producer thats consistently maintained this level for 20+ years?

 

[Zero]

& it’s ppl on this board who still wanna put Pete Rock/RZA ahead of him smh

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Rza for sure not ahead of him lol. If anything he got worse and his recent album is classical music lol. He stunk so bad in hiphop he changed genres.

Yall are true prisoners of the moment

 

[Pseudo]

has there been another producer thats consistently maintained this level for 20+ years?

Nah. You can argue other producers had higher peaks but Alc's longevity is unprecedented

 

[Budda]

only one arguable is RZA

Dr Dre is the goat for obvious reasons
Alchemist #2

Nah Q tip has to be above Alc and truthfully speaking his every bit as influential as Dre to rap.

Like half of raps greatest producers directly come from Tips lineage

Dilla
Kanye
Havoc

Can’t put Alchemist above Premo either, if were going prime for prime Premo from 89-98 blows everyone out the water mostly.

 

[dza]

ALC the best doing it rn

 

[Reptile]

Man whaaat


Yea he’s top 5. No more ‘most slept on’ or ‘low key’. Alc is top 5 somebody got move out.

Shut the fukk up

 

[Ohene]

Nah Q tip has to be above Alc and truthfully speaking his every bit as influential as Dre to rap.

Like half of raps greatest producers directly come from Tips lineage

Dilla
Kanye
Havoc

Can’t put Alchemist above Premo either, if were going prime for prime Premo from 89-98 blows everyone out the water mostly.

alchemist 25 years deep and still at the top of his game. no one else can say that

 

[Piff Perkins]

Yall are true prisoners of the moment

I take back all my Pete Rock slander after that Common album


But RZA fell off so hard it makes me view him in a different light. Premo's fall off is kind of undeniable at this point too, although perhaps the Nas album changes that. I don't know where I'd rank Alch besides knowing he's in my top 10. More importantly...he never fell off, he always stayed ahead of the curve, and even when shyt changed around him he found a way to do shyt better than most.

 

[LevelUp]

ALC the best doing it rn

Fact

 

[Zero]

I take back all my Pete Rock slander after that Common album


But RZA fell off so hard it makes me view him in a different light. Premo's fall off is kind of undeniable at this point too, although perhaps the Nas album changes that. I don't know where I'd rank Alch besides knowing he's in my top 10. More importantly...he never fell off, he always stayed ahead of the curve, and even when shyt changed around him he found a way to do shyt better than most.

nikka

He made Cuban Linx

 

[Budda]

alchemist 25 years deep and still at the top of his game. no one else can say that

Q tip can

 

[BigTyme Records]

Legendary shyt

 

[Crumple]

One is a good song, one is a bad song

Drake...is that you?

 

[ThirdAct]

Man that Keep It Thoro beat is timeless. Sounds just as crisp as it did in 2000.

 

[Crumple]

I really don't care too much for music "progressing" over what Pink Floyd, Curtis Mayfield or what Alchemist did around 2001 for hip hop. If rap stays with those beats going forward I'm more than happy.

Have you guys heard this Alchemist beat?