Music Your top 5 hiphop beats?

[VorZakone]

Mine, in no particular order.

• Wu Tang Clan - CREAM
• Miilkbone - Keep it real
• Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg - Still Dre
• Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
• Jay Z - Dead Presidents

Those are the ones I regularly listen to again just for the beat.

 

[diarm]

I don't know if I have a top 5 but NY State of Mind is number 1.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

If I can only pick 5 it might be these:

• Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers
• A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
• Camp Lo - Black Nostaljack AKA Come On
• Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
• Wu Tang Clan - Heaterz

 

[Dan_F]

I don't know if I have a top 5 but NY State of Mind is number 1.

That’s probably in my top 5 songs period, but I’m having difficultly separating the beats and the lyrics.

 

[Desert Eagle]

Mobb Deep- Hell on earth

Dre - Deep Cover

Royce da 5'9 - Boom

Nas- Memory lane

Kanye- Everything i am

 

[Martial'sEmergingSmile]

Shook Ones Pt. II, In Da Club, Still D.R.E, Forgot About Dre, I Got 5 On It, 0 to 100

Guess mainstream is mainstream for a reason. All big time vibes.

 

[VorZakone]

Shook Ones Pt. II
In Da Club
Still D.R.E
Forgot About Dre
I Got 5 On It
0 to 100

I got 5 on it is a great shout too.

 

[RedTiger]

Method man- bring the pain
Ol dirty- shimmy shimmy
Beatnuts- off the books
Biggie- 10 crack commandments
Dove shack- summertime in the LBC.

This most likely isn't my top 5, rather it's the 5 that came to mind right now.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Probably not a definitive top 5, just 5 I can think of right now that I know I like a lot:

7L & Esoteric - Rise of the Rebel
Kanye West - Family Business
DJ Shadow - Kings and Queens feat Run The Jewels (contains El-P's best verse too, IMO)
Raekwon and Ghost - Criminology
The DJ Premier beat on that Limp Bizkit/Method Man track, N 2 Gether Now is also great. Even Durst's verses are surprisingly decent. I'd be surprised if they weren't written for him.

And just all of Dilla's Donuts LP.

Adrian Younge's work on Ghostface's 12 Reasons to Die LP is awesome too. Not Ghost's best work, but the instrumentation on that record is really good throughout.

 

[Paxi]

Cashmere Thoughts
Word Life
Nas is Like
If I Die Tonight
Sound Bwoy Bureill
This Means You

Thought I’d easily name dozens more which I absolutely love.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Probably not a definitive top 5, just 5 I can think of right now that I know I like a lot:

7L & Esoteric - Rise of the Rebel
Kanye West - Family Business
DJ Shadow - Kings and Queens feat Run The Jewels (contains El-P's best verse too, IMO)
Raekwon and Ghost - Criminology
The DJ Premier beat on that Limp Bizkit/Method Man track, N 2 Gether Now is also great. Even Durst's verses are surprisingly decent. I'd be surprised if they weren't written for him.

And just all of Dilla's Donuts LP.

Adrian Younge's work on Ghostface's 12 Reasons to Die LP is awesome too. Not Ghost's best work, but the instrumentation on that record is really good throughout.

Meth is an incredible lyricist so it's likely that he might have written the entire song.

Good shout on Criminology, such an iconic tune.

Dilla did Raekwon's House of Flying Daggers.

Ghost told great stories and was in his element on 12 Reasons. Younge's tracks are different but feel gritty like classic Wu Tang. Such a great record.

 

[Redlambs]

I'd have to think about top 5, but I could listen to Cube's It was a good day all day long.

 

[Rado_N]

DJ Shadow - Kings and Queens feat Run The Jewels (contains El-P's best verse too, IMO)

This just reminded me of Nobody Speak, what a bloody banger that was too.

 

[Ali Dia]

C.R.E.A.M is such a banger.

Currently for moi
93 till infinity - souls of mischief
All things to all men - roots manuva and the cinematic orchestra.
Swimming Pools - Kendrick
That thing - Lauren Hill
The healer - Erykah Badu

 

[Rado_N]

Shame On Negrito can’t be forgotten either.

 

[Desert Eagle]

I'd have to think about top 5, but I could listen to Cube's It was a good day all day long.

The beat is from an isley brothers song(footsteps in the dark).

 

[Bosws87]

Nujabes - Feather
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Dilated Peoples - Worst Come To Worst
O.C - Times Up

 

[11101]

6

Eric B & Rakim - Juice
Nas - NY state of mind
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Pete Rock CL Smooth - Troy
Wu Tang - Cream
Grandmaster Flash - The Message

 

[RedTiger]

Dilated Peoples - Worst Come To Worst

Killah Priest - One Step

 

[TheReligion]

Shame On Negrito can’t be forgotten either.

I could never buy anything from Luis Suarez and the Anfield Gang

 

[JPRouve]

Lino - Wolfgang
MC Tyer - L'Intro du général
Youssoupha - Espérance de vie
Lino - Requiem
IAM - Je danse le Mia

 

[Spoony]

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL
Wicked - Ice Cube
Protect Ya Neck - WTC
One Love - Nas
They Want EFX - Das EFX

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

93’ til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
Pain - Tupac
Didn't Cha Know - Erykah Badu (Too Deep for the Intro - J. Cole, man i is - Logic)
Devil in a New Dress - Kanye West
Pound Cake - Drake

 

[Stobzilla]

Kings & Queens - DJ Shadow ft. RTJ
Triumph - Wu Tang Clan
Iron Galaxy - Cannibal Ox
Go! - Killer Mike
Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip

 

[Stobzilla]

Also, everything Exile did on Below The Heavens but that album is a Top 5 category on its own.

 

[Eckers99]

Probably not a definitive top 5, just 5 I can think of right now that I know I like a lot:

7L & Esoteric - Rise of the Rebel
Kanye West - Family Business
DJ Shadow - Kings and Queens feat Run The Jewels (contains El-P's best verse too, IMO)
Raekwon and Ghost - Criminology
The DJ Premier beat on that Limp Bizkit/Method Man track, N 2 Gether Now is also great. Even Durst's verses are surprisingly decent. I'd be surprised if they weren't written for him.

And just all of Dilla's Donuts LP.

Adrian Younge's work on Ghostface's 12 Reasons to Die LP is awesome too. Not Ghost's best work, but the instrumentation on that record is really good throughout.

Yep. The top 5 beats might all be on that one LP. Genius.

 

[Paxi]

Shame On Negrito can’t be forgotten either.

 

[Ali Dia]

Have any of you guys heard this album? It’s seriously good. psychedelic hip hop album that went under the radar when it was released


https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2682-beauty-and-the-beat/amp/

 

[Dan_F]

Just five random ones that haven’t been mentioned. I can’t do a top 5, it’s too hard. Plus nothing produced by Dre because it’s too easy/too many to name.

Mobb Deep - Eye for an eye.
Kanye - can’t tell me nothing (even though I prefer anything off College Graduation to listen to as a whole).
Cypress Hill - How I could just kill a man
OutKast - ATLiens
The Pharcyde - Passin me by

 

[Ali Dia]

Some great tunes here. I’m going to make a playlist out the suggestions

 

[Pickle85]

Nujabes - Feather
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Dilated Peoples - Worst Come To Worst
O.C - Times Up

This is a good list. Off the top of the dome (see what I did there):

Gangstar: Full Clip
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Mos Def et al: Oh No
Biggie: Mo Money Mo Problems (could have been any of a million though)
Method Man: Even If

 

[TheReligion]

Fugees - Ready or Not
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Big Pun - It's so hard
Dre - Xxplosive
Meek Mill - Blue Notes

 

[adexkola]

To provide some counterweight to a thread full of classic and awesome yet dusty NY beats

Classic Southern Cuts
Elevators - OutKast
Back That Thang Up - Juvenile
Maybach Music 3 - Rick Ross
Speed - Little Brother
Sippin On Some Sizzurp - Three 6 Mafia

Modern Stuff (within last 5 years)
Dior - Pop Smoke
Future - No Charge
Nipsey Hussle - Blue Laces 2
Anderson Paak* - Saviers Road
Meek Mill - Lemon Pepper Freestyle**

* He's hybrid but he raps and 9th Wonder produced it so feck it
** Would have put Dreams and Nightmares here but that was over 5 years ago.

 

[adexkola]

Also, no one has mentioned an Alchemist or Madlib beat.

Heathens.

 

[villain]

Clipse - Grinding not on anyone's list? Can't respect it.
There's an overall lack of Neptunes beats in general.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Also, no one has mentioned an Alchemist or Madlib beat.

Heathens.

Clipse - Grinding not on anyone's list? Can't respect it.
There's an overall lack of Neptunes beats in general.

Ooh..er..we likes what we likes.

 

[adexkola]

Clipse - Grinding not on anyone's list? Can't respect it.
There's an overall lack of Neptunes beats in general.

Because Clipse aside, the Neptunes' peak correlated with an era of hip-hop far removed from what's considered the Golden Age. Case in point, you'll see TONY listed here before N.O.R.E.'s Nothin

The Neptunes' discography (including their solo albums) is so good. The stuff they did with Snoop

 

[Red_Aaron]

Have any of you guys heard this album? It’s seriously good. psychedelic hip hop album that went under the radar when it was released


https://www.google.com/amp/s/pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2682-beauty-and-the-beat/amp/

One of my faves - Beauty is a brilliant track

There's a tonne of classics from the 90s but for a slightly more modern name Madlib is a great producer Freddie Gibbs Pinata is solid gold and I listen to the instrumental album almost as much as the full version

Knicks and Shame are standouts

Edit - fcuk me pinata is 7 years old now.....

 

[Stobzilla]

Also, no one has mentioned an Alchemist or Madlib beat.

Heathens.

It would be unfair to choose just off of Freddie Gibbs' output with these two alone. Do not make us choose please.

 

[Paxi]

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL
Wicked - Ice Cube
Protect Ya Neck - WTC
One Love - Nas
They Want EFX - Das EFX

Superb track from an unbelievable album. Will give it listen when I’m out for a walk later this evening.