when looking at popular hip-hop, you have a very small group a producers making tracks for and relatively large group of emcees. i've found myself enjoying songs by artists i wouldn't normally listen to because i like the producer. this is why i think that the producer can't possibly be overrated. A good beat can carry a wack emcee as easily(if not with more ease) than a talanted emcee can carry a song with a wack beat.

>I know when I listen to non-English hip-hop, I don't…
i feel u on that
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*far from a square, 'cuz i wreck when i tangle*
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-J. Clyde Morris