RappersDelight presents the top 100 best producers in hiphop ever
1 - Dr. dre In many ways the archetypical hip hop producer: the genius in a dark big studio, tinkering with the beats, perfecting Bangers that soundtrack your life.
Dre was the first superstar producer: he was as a beatmaker as big a part of the succes of NWA as the rappers on stage and he has shifted the course of popular music multiple times. Be it with popularizing gangsta rap, defining G-funk or with his West Coast sound from the aughts.
Artists he helped to discover / develop range from Ice Cube, to Eminem to Kendrick Lamar to Snoop Dogg and his hits are so well known, even your grandparents can sing along…
In this first episode we go trough his career from 1984 to 1994
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