Who Is Your Favorite Producer & Why?

[Nic Nak]

Who is you guys favorite producer, i would like to kno who ya resemble your work after.

[EmCee187um]

Dre. But I dont resemble my work after him.

[Tob1]

DJ Premier
Pete Rock aka Soul Brother #1

[semantik]

primo and dilla... with a little q tip thrown in for good measure.

[Jay Uncanny]

Dre - an incredibl catalog
Dilla - sample chopping, drum programming and arrangements are genius in my opinon
9th - great sampling
Primo - creativity and hard drums
Madlib - mad talented and an excellent ear

(sorry, couldnt just pick one)

[v0id]

Got to be Hank Shocklee. What he did with 3 seconds of Sample time back in the late 80ties is just insane. I really miss that multilayer sound chaos in nowadays Hiphop. He was musically way more creative than all these cats who just take a loop from a seventies record and put a beat underneath it. I've got the impression, that most producers don't even do own sound-research anymore and resort to preset sounds (or maybe that's just some 'aspiring' ones i stumble upon). You don't hear stuff like Terminator Xs 'Transformer Scratch' as a basic element in tracks anymore, which is quite a shame. Well, to me, just musically, there's not much Hardcore Hiphop around anymore. It's all gone Pop and boring. Everyone seems to be out for the Benjis and experiments seem a thing of the past. Sorry for ranting.

Other producers I rate high are RZA, Dre, Muggs (although only their work in the early 90s). Apart from that, Pharell gets my props for being a rhythmic & melodic genius and not being afraid to experiment with freaky sounds and arrangements.

[zoidanum]

Besides legends like Premo and Dilla I'm feeling Ayatollah, Black Milk and Khrysis alot.

[playwithsticks]

J Dilla
Ant (Half of Atmosphere and Rhymesayers in house producer; One of the most under rated)
Timbaland (& Danja)
Madlib
Dr. Dre
Neptunes

The top 3 are tied. I love Dilla and Timbo for their drums. Dilla has some of the most human feeling drum rhythms.. he really thought like a drummer. Timbo, I love the use of live drums and auxiliary percussion. Gives tracks more human feeling too. Ant finds some of the funkiest samples.... Madlib would have to be next (obviously if you read the list Dr. Dre and the Neptunes I don't follow religiously but I respect their work and love most of their tracks on albums I have.

[Rafferty]

Ant (hellah slept-on... why is that?)
Edan (nothing too crazy or anything, but very fucking solid, and it fits in my head just right. He's primarily a rapper but he produces solid joints)
and yeah, Dilla and Madlib

[YABBA]

for me no producer made me sit up and listen like rza in the early to mid 90s shit like glaciers of ice and the whole of the liquid swords album still send shivers