Aside from being one of the dopest emcees in hip hop, Q-Tip should also be recognized as one of the dopest producers in the genre. Though his work with A Tribe Called Quest was credited to the whole group, Tip was indeed the beat crafter. Later in his career, Tip would also team with the legendary J Dilla to form The Ummah production team. As a solo producer, The Abstract remixed/produced tracks for Nas, Mobb Deep, Cypress Hill and Busta Rhymes, among others. This collection highlights that work…
- Cyprus Hill – Illusions [Q-Tip Remix]
- Da Bush Babees – Gravity
- Craig Mack – Get Down [Q-Tip Remix]
- Nas – The World Is Yours [Q-Tip Remix]
- Busta Rhymes – Wild Hot
- Mobb Deep – Temperature’s Rising
- Fu-Schnickens – Heavenly Father
- Da Bush Babees – We Run Tings
- Nas – One Love
- Crooklyn Dodgers – Crooklyn
- Busta Rhymes – Ill Vibe
- Keith Murray – Dangerous Ground
- Shola Ama – Lovely Affair
- Da Bush Babees – 3 MCs
- Apache – Gangsta Bitch
- The Jungle Brothers – On The Road Again [Q-Tip Remix]
- Mobb Deep – Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
- Busta Rhymes – So Hardcore
- Run-D.M.C. – Come On Everybody
- Tiger – Who Planned It
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Dope Shit Kev, great mix, I’ll post this around
Funny enough, this conversation was brought up on a message board as of late. Is Q-Tip in fact the best blend of Rapper/Producer?
Sure there are better rappers than him, and sure there are better producers than him. But is he the most consistent and contains the best blend of them?
I think he’s easily a top 3 but here were other names to come to mind:
Redman (my pick)
Pharaohe Monch
Kanye West
Erick Sermon
Pete Rock
etc..
That’s a real interesting topic Deez and I will go out and say that Q-Tip is definitely the most consistent emcee/producer. The others you listed are contenders, especially Monch and Sermon. I’m not up on Redman’s productions and didn’t know Pete Rock rapped. I’m sure a lot of people would say Kanye, but really, Kanye has a terrible flow.
Didn’t Know petey rapped?!?!?!
Kev, have you listened to PEte Rock and CL Smooth? Lol. He raps quite a bit on the Soul Survivor series too!
Redman produced the entire Dare Iz album and co-produced the entire Whut album. I’m pretty sure Muddy is him too
Kanye a terrible flow eh?
haha, I guess since I’m a beathead, I never realized Pete rapped. I had always assumed it was all CL! Guess I need to break out the old cassettes! And Redman produced the whole Whut album… yeah, I missed that too. That album is dope production-wise. I need to read credits more…
Yo the Apache joint is still my shit. I think that wild hot was one of tips illest beats ever, he flipped the Lalo joint even better than Diamond d.
My vote goes to Oddisee
Propz,
Is the Compilation n°1 also a Q-TIP best-of ?
Where can i find it? Thx
Could you count MF Doom in your Producer / Rapper thing?