Most Slept On Hip-Hop Producers (Nominations)

Kno (Cunninlynguists)?!

Damn, you guys are sleeping.

No Exile

co-sign Ayatollah, DJ Scratch being slept on

I see a few legends on this list tho....*shrugs*

I guess everyone's definition of "slept-on" may vary.

Nashiem Myrick???????????????????????

And King Shameek is on there twice LOL

I'll be sure to have you proofread everything in the future.

No Jake One, Nottz, Kno or Vitamin D??? You are crazy.

Co sign Vita. He has too much fonk for fools.

EXILE.

How the fuck isn't DJ Khalil on this list, or Marco Polo?

I will also mention that 14KT, Apollo Brown, Mr. Porter, and M-Phazes should be on here.

I will Co-Sign Ayatollah being HIGHLY slept on.

I don't know how NO I.D. can be considered slept on, considering he's worked with Ye and Jay.

Also, I co-sign the fact that it's terrible that Nottz, Jake One and Kno aren't on this list.

Totally forgot about Exile; that's a definite.

co-sign.. i personally believe exile has mastered the mpc similiar to dilla dawg.

How you could you possibly leave off Kno or Jake One? I definitely agree that Mr. Porter, Dj Khalil, and Exile should be on here. Kno is definitely one of the most slept on in the game. His last album is nuts.

The Alchemist , The Bomb Squad , Eric Sermon , Q Tip

Mannie Fresh, Scott Storch, Dj Khalil, Mr Porter, Exile, Kno, No ID, Alchemist, Havoc, Scarface, Mailman, Battle Cat, Warren G, Shock G, Beats By The Pound, Pimp C, David Banner, Jake One, Cool and Dre, Hi Tek, The Heatmakers, Bink!,

Co sign!

Needlz

The joints that Needlz did on Skyzoo's album The Salvation were beyond bonkers.

Tee-Double from Texas!!
Used to be on GoodVibe Recordings the same label that had Bahamadia and SlumVillage (R.I.P) J-Dilla.He put out like 16 indie albums,slept on fa realz

No kev brown?

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

lots of great producers missing from that list
Oh No, 14KT (and the rest of The Lab Techs), Exile, Onra, Paul White, Flying Lotus, Alchemist, Mr Porter, Khalil, Blu/GODlee Barnes, Nottz, Jake One, IMAKEMADBEATS, Rhettmatic.
also some great local New Zealand producers: P-Money, Forty One, Fire & Ice, Electric Wire Hustle

El-P of Company Flow fame!!!

T-Ray

Thes One is ill as f***

Damu The Fudgemunk

I'm surprised he's not on here too!

ehhhhh, I mean, I see what most of you are saying with your nominations but honestly, I think "slept on" indicates a significant period of time (i.e. 15-20 years) to me and most of these dudes (14kt, m-phazes, exile, damu, kev brown, etc...) havent been in the game THAT long

You right! Large professor,Marley Marl,Prince Paul etc.

haha, Prince Paul is who I mentioned on twitter when he first threw this question out there...that's what I'm talking about!!

RUCKAZOID!!!!!!

easy mo bee, dj supreme of hijack, fat jack, da beatminerz,

kankick

yes mate, ´a sight for sore eyes´ ft visonaires, big track.

Can't believe Dug Infinite didn't make it on the list or M Boogie, Dj Supreme great shout, also Mark Bee, Dj Nappa and Joe Buddah

The Are

K-DEF

9th Wonder, Illmind, L.E.S., Trackmasters, The Hitmen, Salaam Remi, Dame Grease, Buckwild, Ski, Knobody, Clark Kent, Digga, Easy Mo Bee, Showbiz, Mel-Man. Just a few off the top of my head.

Someone is sleeping on this list big time!!!!
I will mention to names Kev Brown(the brown album) and Oddisee(foot in the door)

Someone is sleeping on this list big time!!!!
I will mention two names Kev Brown(the brown album) and Oddisee(foot in the door)

add: Endemic, 4th Disciple, True Master....then i would co-sign.

Rashid hadee, Melodius monk , Minnesota, Exile, ILL mind, Vint metalz, Blunted Sultan and White Lotus.

no dj battlecat no daz, soopafly, chill of cmw terrace martin, oddisee

Soul Supreme

Moka Only!
Focus!
Fredwreck!
Jelly Roll!
Joe Buddha!
The Architect!
A-Plus!

i would say FOCUS/ BERNARD EDWARDS JNR.

followed by DJ. QUIK. both FOCUS, and DJ. QUIK have an understanding of music theory.

thirdly, MANTRONIK is highly underrated. he is very much dismissed, but his drum programming was incredible, for the mid-1980s.

hell yeah, mantronik was and will alwys be the King of the 909 . Just the 12inches from T-La-Rock put mantronik in the history books. and le't not talk about the whole album for Just Ice: Back To the Old School classic.

How is Diamond D , Large PRO and BEATNUTS slept on?

Nujabes, Nujabes, and Nujabes... Only in America though...

Too many snoring on these dudes..
Exile (most creative & consistent.. MPC madness)
Black Milk (evolved with that live sound but still dope Detroit)
!llmind (beats are similiar to Khalil)
Jake One (Wht Van Music/Stimulus Package.. Slept on classics)
Kev BrOwn (Veteran in his own right.. Look 4 Alexander Green)
Oddisee (Traveling Man Instros' is all the convincing I needed)
Apollo Brown (BOOM BAP+GRIMEY+SOUL=COOKED UP CLASSICS)
Oh No (If Mos Def sees potential.. your doin' somthin' right. DR. NO!!!)

The LG Experience

Khrysis, Moonshine, The Kickdrums, Apple Juice Kid, Paris Jones, and my VA 757 dudes - Bink!, Nottz, and Danja

Yo who ever put down "hollywood impact"on the list, is the ish. They ran things for a hot second and then just gone like a puff of smoke. My fav albums from them were Twin Hypes first album(dope!) King Sun on the club tip(fire) and LA Star's Swing to the beat(super dope) anybody know what happen to them after their profile deal went south?

"there ought to be no music, there ought to be no muisc, cause all we need is pumpkin, the king of the beats"

Pumpkin(rip), you can't have a list with out his name.

This dude Chilly up in Rochester has some of the dopest shit I've heard in a minute, you may not know him now but you'll definitely be hearin from him soon

Not new school? Oldschool?...

Significant on music "Itself"or made a mark?

Jermaine Dupree . Forget not he made 2 million off kriss Kross his 1st artist & many others....Can y'all hear me out there?

Lol @ calling jermain dupree slept on

yeah we hear you nice and crisp. "jermaine dupree slept on" . haha u mad funny bro. lol

J Zone

E-Swift, Ant Banks, and Easy Mo B

Wow...No nods for Amp Live?

Amp Live is dope! Producer of Zion I...

Aesop Rock

damn what about dat nigga daz.

sid roams, beatbutcha, nottz, ryan leslie

Three Nottz,Dj Quik And Easy Moe Bee.....there!

D/R Period, True Master and DJ Honda

DOOM is pretty ill with the production too

Thes One and The Bomb Squad mutherfuckerz. They have made many ALBUMS worth of amazing beats. That shit ain't easy to do.

It's hard to understand how the Bomb Squad is on this list. First of all the Bomb Squad is no longer a unit, plus when they were making heat,they were doing dope platinum tracks.

Because "slept on producers" means they're not necessarily getting the credit they deserve. Admittedly, it's probably because they haven't done much of anything recently, younger kids don't even know who they are/were. At this point they are criminally slept on for their contributions, while someone like Just Blaze is not. It may be just a relevancy thing, sure, but ask 9 out of 10 of these young producers who The Bomb Squad is/was and they'd have no idea. Those dudes created a whole new brand of energy that is still extremely relevant today but they're not getting credit for it. I mean, they influenced the sound on "Straight Outta Compton". Who knows what that would've sounded like otherwise...?

Plus one for DJ Spinna too, btw

Dj Spinna, Kut Masta Kurt, L.E.S., Buckwild, 88 Keys, Hi-Tek, Prince Paul, Thes One, Erick Sermon, Shawn J. Period, J-Rawls, Dug Infinite, Evidence, 45 King, Redman, A-plus & Domino (Hiero), etc.

Necro,4th Disciple,and Diamond D,Showbiz,,Johnny J,Doom,SkiBeats,...

Where is James "Dilla" Yancey on the list?????

Jay Dee is the LAST person that's slept on. He's always in discussion as one of, if not the greatest producer of all time. It's just a shame that the masses didn't take notice til after he passed.

Maybe online but that's not exactly true in the entire world of hip hop.

Oddisee, Black Milk, Marco Polo

J-ZONE! and ROB the Viking

Def a big +1 for Muggs - Ive always wondered why hes not consistently mentioned with Premo, Dre, Timbo and them???

Q-Tip, KRS-ONE and Supa Dave West.

come on fellas how do ya forget buckwild from ditc.

Because he's slept on!

Blu, Exile, Black Milk, Lazerbeak (Doomtree), Paper Tiger (Doomtree), Ant (Atmosphere), Medium Zach (Big Quarters), Amp (Actual Proof), Double-O (Kidz In The Hall), Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang), OH NO, Aesop Rock

Prolly more, but we'll start there...

FOCUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FOCUS

FOCUS

Q tip, erick sermon, ayatollah, true master

Easy moe bee

36 mafia....yea i said it lmao

Kev Brown, Oddisee, YU

smh no beatminerz? no !llmind? no B!nk dog? Nasheem myrick? some one already said Focus from aftermath...
what about battlecat? flying lotus? salaam remi? DJ Scratch? Eric Semon?
chad "pimp c" butler...nigga cmon! lets talk about it!
special K and teddy ted? MOSs? Rick ruben? we could do this all night lol

FYI: u have k def up there twice...

I said erick serman...but yeah beatminerz are crazy ill! Good call!! Boot camp clik!

Definitely Ayatollah, Khrysis, and Dibia$e

Battlekat comes instantly to mind because he's so dope and like most west coast cats, he gets the short end of the stick. For the sake of debate however there are just too many muthafuckas to say who's most slept on.

GOOD MUSIC IS THE MOST SLEPT ON.

45 King no doubt!!! He's actually my favorite and hardly anybody mentions him. The simplicity in his djing and production is classic!

At the end of all these comments would the best producer who hasn't been mentioned yet, by default, be the most slept on producer?

I honestly think Don Cannon is kind of slept on as a producer - he gets a huge amount of credit as a mixtape DJ, but I'm impressed by his production - the dude can do anything from straight sampled-classic sounding beats to trap music - i dig the versatility as opposed to the more "purist" kind of guys like 9th.(9th is dope too). I like the Cool Kids mixtapes he did, and that collection of instrumentals he put out - the shit is sick! good sample chopping with more modern drums....

No ID, Large Pro

Evidence ,Dj Babu,Sid roams, Jake one,!llmind,OH NO,Ayatollah,Agallah,Organized Noise,Dj Khalil,Fizzy Womack

so glad to see all the constructive input. all these producers getting named deserve all the accolades they get. and then it still wouldnt be enuff.
basically it boils down to this. Every
SAMPLE BASED producer is gonna be slept on besides the mt rushmore of producers. DRE, DILLA,PETEROCK, & PREEMO.

I`m glad you stopped this. There will never be a solid list for this subject. There are many slept-on producers in this saturated market of Hip Hop. Everybody can`t get the credit they deserve. That`s how it is in life period. i can think of millions of people that don`t get credit for doing great things,this is no different.

FOCUS... "Bernard Edwards Jr."

DOOM can be considered slept on as a producer I guess. Damu the Fudgemunk is making some noise but doesn't get enough recognition as he should IMO. Also King Born Allah because of this track right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OZLuvLCkVA

+1 for Damu

Kev Brown too

WTF. most of these cats are DEFINITELY NOT slept on... like...

# Diamond D
# No I.D.
# Large ProfessorDJ Quik
# Madlib
# Havoc
# 45 king
# Lord Finesse
DJ Scratch
Dj muggs
Prince Paul
Dan The Automator

YOW... i got ONE for you...

ASTROLOGICAL...

look him up... will blow all you cats away... for real.

Also the younger soul brother Grap Luva...

Miles Bonny

Kenlo, from up here in Canada, u don't even know what u are missing. I mean, y'all are here dropping big names like black milk or madlib being underrated, these guys are like hiphop stars to me, maybe they get slept-on by the mainstream, but not by the hiphop community.
Try to get urself one of his 6 instrumental albums (name by color : bleue, orange, brun, etc...) shit is crazy.
The Brown one maybe the easiest to find, but is also the most experimental and not really that easy to listen, but trust me, this guy knows.

No Kev Brown?

yeaaah word man, Kev's one good candidate !

bink!

DAZ!!!!

Easy Mo Bee. Ready to Die...nuff said

Paul C is definitely slept on.

Tony D missing from the list though!

digga six figga

ty fyffe,bink,oddisee

Moka Only. 88-Keys. Kan Kick. MF Doom. The Grouch. Evidence. Oh No.

@Cliché i just checked out Kenlo's bandcamp and his beats are amazing! thanks for the tip. also i'm thinkin Kev Brown, Dan the Automator and Prince Paul on this debate

glad u like, that man's an ill emcee too.

Nicolay

Easy moe bee
dj quick
88-keys
Embee (of looptroop)

*Embee (Of Looptroop)
*Kno (Of Cunninlynguists)
*Blockhead
*Mathematics
*Ant (Of Atmosphere)
*Thomas Rusiak

Alkota! JK.
Ayatollah for sure!

AGALLAH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfpwfN_TJk&feature=related

AGALLAH

GODFATHER DON
GODFATHER DON
GODFATHER DON

ALL OF YOU NIGGAS SLEPT!!!

wow out of mad comments no one mentions godfather don

and how about redman

I'd add DJ Spinna, Buckwild, Ge-ology, Joey Chavez, Kankick, E-Swift

What about Tony Dofat? the production on the Rough House Survivers was dope!

I think that a slept on producer would be defined as someone who has put out a lot of tracks, has had many placements on albums and has hit songs but haven't got much credit for they're work. So seeing Madlib and No I.D. I like that.

How about 9th Wonder, Nottz, DJ Battlecat, DJ Exile, The Alchemist, DJ Khalil, !llmind, S1.

I also think slept on can maybe apply to producers that have done great work but haven't had a shot at stardom.

How about Swiff D, J. Rawls, Diba$e, Khrysis, Marco Polo, etc.

DJ Quik - when most of his contemporaties peaked Quik is still getting better as a producer. His last two projects Blaqkout and Trauma are some of his best works. His engineering rivals Dre's clarity and noone else can say that. He has total control over sound - whatever he imagines he can create. One of his unrecognized gems is 2nd II None's "Classic 220".
Organized Noise has 5 classic albums they basically produced back to front Still Standing, Southernplayalistic, Atliens, Soul Food, East Point's Greatest Hits. No one incorporated live horns seamlessly into hiphop like them. Wait did anyone even try. See Ghetto Camelot or The Way you Move.
Mannie Fresh - If Mannie Fresh had better quality control on the Cash Money assembly line he would be easily listed as one of the greats. 25 wall to wall quality albums during Cash money's prime. If this was reduced to 5 albums they would all be classics. Totally original style. All this after coinventing a genre called bounce.
Pimp C - Gutter Nasty Funk based from the Meters tradition rather than the James brown (east coast) or p-funk(west coast). Along with DJ Paul and Juicy J, he's the most influential producer in the southern tradition. Anybody pulling out a live organ know who did it best and first(see Front, Back, side to side). Never worked much outside UGK but oh what greatness that was.
DJ Shadow - who has ever made songs complex as classical compositions using only samples and the MPC. All this backed by crazy drum programming, shifting time signatures with some of the hardest drums ever. Endtroducing is still mindboggling to this day.
Rick Rock - Countless slappers. A master of mobb and architect of hyphy and posthyphy Bay production.
The Rapalot 90's team - Mike Dean, NO Joe, Scarface, Joe Bido and Tone Capone. Dark sinister funk and lots of great albums.
DJ Paul and Juicy J - the hypnotic sound that eventually morphed into the dramatic trap style of production. Influenced every southern producer especially tempo and drum programming. Innumerable albums but their masterpiece is Project Pat's Mista Don't play.
Collipark (DJ Smurf) club music isn't usually heavily appreciated on producer sites but nothing seems harder than making a song that can make strippers lose their minds. Collipark can do it at will. Thank you, Collipark.

DOPE and Thorough dude...But People ALWAYS NEVER mention T-MIX From SUAVE HOUSE...8BALL& MJG/ MR. MIKE/ TELA/ SOUTH CIRCLE .That cold ass beat he did on Foxy Brown's Chyna Doll(Ride (Down South)(featuring Eightball & MJG, Juvenile, and Too Short)/ SCARFACE CLASSIC "THE FIX"(What Can I Do?)/ LIL WAYNE(Hustler Musik)/ all of 8 BALL'S classic solo album LOST and COUNTLESS OTHERS...PEOPLE DON'T even know how dude looks.....no pics of him.....So this is THE MOST SLEPT ON PRODUCER, PERIOD!!!!! NON-BIASED

T-Mix produced alotta dope shit and I have never seen him mentioned. In-house producers often get ignored in these discussions. Also southern producers don't appear much either. So T-mix who is southern and a house producer for Suave House and Cash Money has caught the short end of the stick and can be considered the most slept on.

How about Easy Mo Bee? Although respected, so many folks sleep on him when it comes to producer lists. "Flavor in Your Ear" totally changed the sound of Hip-Hop when it came out. His minimalist approach and use of space within that track was next level. Dude was way ahead of his time.

Also, don't sleep on Shawn J. Period. Dude had the Rawkus camp on smash back in the late 90's.

Let's not forget about Daz too. That "Dre" sound of the early-mid 90's can be thanked in part to Daz.

I don't know if someone mentioned Johnny J. He produced a lot of 2Pac's tracks!

J-ZONE J-ZONE J-ZONE JZONE J ZONE !!!!!!! Get it yet? Damn, this guy is an mpc monster, and a real creative dude who never gets mentioned in these types of polls. Just givin the nod to Captain Backslap himself....

Wow, not that many people able to understand the meaning of 'slept on' then?

Whoa, so many names on that list but no Exile? Or J-Zone? No Oddissee? No Easy Mo Bee?GTFOH!

My vote goes to KNO from Cunninlynguists though! Dopest producer in the game at the moment and so little people know his work, its a shame! Exile and Oddissee are close 2nds.

Agreed about Kno. He is easily one of the top 10 greatest producers of all time yet he (and Cunninlynguists) are criminally unknown.

BY FAR THE MOST SLEPT ON PRODUCER IS GOTTA BE MADLIB MAN HE IS ONE OF THE MOST ILLEST CREATIVE PRODUCER/GENIIUS WE HAVE LEFT MAN APPRECIATE THAT MAN

minnestoa money boss players

NO DOUBT!!!

Prince Paul >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Diamond D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
45 King >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

SID ROAMS (Joey Chavez and Bravo)... best production duo out right now... way sicker than a lot of dudes on that list no question.. that list is kinda wack actually... pharoahe monch? dude has made a few good joints but is by no means an accomplished producer.. for example.

WTF is slept-on producer???... Can someone help me with dat...

WHERES THE LOVE FOR ?UESTLOVE??

i was just about to say DAZ...classics...and BATTLECAT...skilled and experienced

nottz, kan kick, sf perkele, nujabes, ras-g

Nicolay & Hazel

How can you all forget about Johnny J!!? He was to 2pac, what Kanye was to Jay-Z and Rocafella!! He produced MOST of Pac's BIGGEST hits!!!
Check the credits on all eyes on me!!! All bout U, All eyez on me, How do you want it. Not to mention Pour out a little liquor on the THUGLIFE album, Hit em up (arguably the best diss song in rap history, certainly the best of the 90s era) as well as over a dozen unreleased classics like When thugz cry and When we ride on our enemies. Did I mention the work he put in on Candyman's debut album. He's definitely one of, if not THE most slept on Hip Hop producer of ALL TIME!!! R.I.P. Johnny J

Marley Marl.

if you are a true underground hip-hop head on that list Finesse, Diamond D, and my 3rd pick id honestly go with Havoc I'd say them cats are slept on to an extreme Finesse is crazy if you take the time to think about it, along with Diamond. And Havoc made some sick ass beats people dont take the time to appreciate. Diamond and Finesse are in my top 5 no doubt dont get me wrong that whole list is almost slept on and beyond more than half the world dont even know who them cats are. This game of hip hop drives me crazy in 2012 thank God for the 5% that are still true to their roots. Should make a most slept on MC poll!!!! And clarify the definition and such Im new to this site i just discovered it so much love to those who know whats good

Oddisee! Exile! Kev Brown!