Y'all Sleep on Large Professor

[Threnody]

Large Pro and Masta Ace have my vote for the most underrated EMCEES of all time

Large got classics on top of classics for decades

 

[DredScott]

not slept on my any real heads out there, but by the masses? sadly yes....

and I could never rock with those promos of The LP that finally surfaced in 2002-2003 with sandboxautomatic and hiphopsite.com since the quality was ehhh and because the best song (Queens Lounge) wasn't even on there. I rocked horrible demo tape quality versions of "Queens Lounge" for so long that I couldn't consider any version of The LP legit until Paul blessed us with the CDQ of that jawn on the updated version of The LP in 2009...

dude's been in my top 5 producers ever list for the longest time and deserves it, word to the thread starter bringing up the legendary Paul C, one of the illest whiteboys to ever touch a board and schooled alotta cats...

 

[ahdsend]

 

[get these nets]

LP makes headphone music, you fully appreciate the tracks hearing them that way

one of my favorite LP beats was remix of Stress(crush kill destroy stress)

there's a woman's singing voice that he teases for parts of the hook and then plays just as he and prince po start their verses...it's ridiculous

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oh, and Large is a top flight producer, but please no duck here about how he is a great rapper

 

[6CertsAndAMovie]

large professor also put on nas and the lox (minus styles P) through the main source.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Does anyone have a rip or link to the original 1996 version of The LP that got shelved? Not the reissue he put out a few years ago with the bonus tracks, but the '96 version and tracklisting that he dropped as a mixtape I think backnin like '03.

Was looking for it yesterday cuz I can't find the copy I downloaded.

Funny finding this thread cuz I was on a LP binge this week after revisiting "The Heist" from Busta Rhymez.

I bought 2 of them. When he dropped the First Class album in 2002, he gave away a free copy of The LP with it through Sandboxautomatic. There was also a mixtape mixed by Mista Sinista. Before that, all we had were low quality bootlegs of the album. I still have that bootleg vinyl of the LP which is in poor quality. One of the most tragic album shelving in hip hop history along with Cormega's Testament. Bullshyt!!!

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

large professor also put on nas and the lox (minus styles P) through the main source.

He wasn't with Main Source on 2nd album. Mikey D took over for him. By that time he was working on his solo album and doing features along with other production

 

[It's_Nade]

Came here for this. Great track

Always brings the best out of God Son.....


If you need some motivation this is one of them joints......

Stay Chiseled brothers

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[Spiritual Stratocaster]

'Halftime' changed my life when I first heard it - Summer '93 in Queens.

I dug up every last piece of music he worked on in the subsequent years. Even That 'Key To The City' joint he put out a couple of years banged IMO

We NEVER sleep on Large Professor in this household.

Halftime beat is

Top 3 beat on illmatic for me

 

[TripleAgent]

LP makes headphone music, you fully appreciate the tracks hearing them that way

one of my favorite LP beats was remix of Stress(crush kill destroy stress)

there's a woman's singing voice that he teases for parts of the hook and then plays just as he and prince po start their verses...it's ridiculous

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oh, and Large is a top flight producer, but please no duck here about how he is a great rapper

YESSSS!

 

[Motife43]

One of my "Friday, time for the weekend" jams




Nobody posted it but had to on the CLASSIC verse from Keep It Rollin

 

[Erratic415]

Did Eric B have much musical talent? I’m always hearing stories of how he had all these ghost producers and Eric basically just muscled his way into credits

I know you all know "Breakin Atoms" that shyt's an early 90s classic

But how many of you know that Large Professor was ghostproducing some of the most iconic albums of the late Golden Age?

“The back cover features a dedication to the memories of Rakim's father William and producer Paul C., who had worked on many of the album's tracks before his murder in July 1989. Paul's protégé Large Professor completed his work. To make "In The Ghetto", he sampled directly off of a cassette tape of sample ideas Paul C had made for Rakim. Neither receive credit in the album's notes.”

Paul C died, and Eric B hit up Large Pro (who was still in high school) to finish the album. Album was considered Rakim/Eric B's most coherent and got 5 mics in the source. This led to Large Pro being contacted again a year or so later to help produce this album

“Large Professor's involvement was much larger than on Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em, and the only tracks not noted as being produced by him are "Rikers Island", "Erase Racism" “

Then from there he goes on to put out "Breakin Atoms" with the Main Source (which introduced Nas to the world on 'Live at the BBQ', and later produced three tracks off "Ilmatic" including 'It Aint Hard To Tell'


"That's a deep record. At that time in life, I was eighteen years old. It was a kid with a pure heart, just writing, and putting his soul out there for the world."

 

[mitter]

 

[Peak]

 

[-Quikness-]

extra p is a living legend, unsung hero of hip hop imo