Somebody linked to an interview with Bob Power and he said Tribe would bring him records and he would sample them up and put it together. Plus, Tip would be hovering over him like make the snare louder and this and that.

The engineers were the ones in the studio with the know how but the creative idea came from someone else.

The real issue is how the term producer has been misused/ perceived in hip hop. I say perceived because people assume produced by ____ means the beat was made by ____. Which is not always the case.