most underrated producer?

[Kei Kurono]

I'd have to probably say Dimlite or Afta1

Kinda glad they're underrated if you know what I mean.

another one I would say is "Damu The Fudgemunk"

[nnato]

speaking of tame one, dj junkwaffle is pretty unknown and produced a whole album for tame. . .mad original sound. . .its free online peep it!

http://slangcorp.com/

just click on tame one-music

check out the rest of that crew while ur there, dope NJ shit!

aaww shit the homies! dude everything off slangcorp is raw. doing some beats for tmfse and remixs on some shape and pistol shit

[Cornelius The Third]

yea man? sick dude. . .ive opened for gdp and pistol in new brunz, see em sometimes at the armory in newark. . .is sasquatch the name u use?

[E.Simon]

Dday One
Joey Beats

[nnato]

yea man? sick dude. . .ive opened for gdp and pistol in new brunz, see em sometimes at the armory in newark. . .is sasquatch the name u use?

yeah but im not really out there as much as id like to be. im also on the west coast, far from jersey. thats rad dude i would love to come out to some shows there. rad guys also hung out with them last year for a night here.

[Cornelius The Third]

ahh shit i figured u were from nj. . .let me kno if u wanna collab or some shit! i just posted a new beat on here last nite give it a listen

[nnato]

ahh shit i figured u were from nj. . .let me kno if u wanna collab or some shit! i just posted a new beat on here last nite give it a listen

yeah just listened dope shit check me out too im on the cloud as well as in them. im going to be recording a ep with my friend out here pretty soon too. he knows the dudes too and we are trying to get it backed slangcorp

[CULP]

geez i just skipped all that dilla chat.... haha ...


JZONE JZONE

Music for Tu Madre

LISTEN to it. his chopping sample skills are unique**** his lyrical comedy is like non other. huggy bear <--- / AL-shid + Jzone is a ridiculous comic rap trio.


jzone did a radio/podcast for a while under the name chief chinchilla. a-la quasimoto-esque voice changer.
shit was funny and had great NY old school rap joints.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTKoo8GolM

[a.D.]

What exactly is the ha ha eye roll about? It's a pretty serious thing when someone has to actually die to get the recognition they deserve. Guess for some that's something to laugh at, I don't know.
By the way j- zone is super ill, but when every "underground" hip hop head already knows how dope he is, he's not exactly slept on. He's well known for what he does-- as evidenced by this thread. I'm sure if he wanted to be well known on a commercial level he could be, but he's never chosen to go that route.

[dtcpu]

dak, elaquent, shlohmo

[in haze]

dak, elaquent, shlohmo

omg, shlohmo, yessssss.

[tedstryka]

j zone is known, but when you never hear him mentioned...you hear a lot of dilla, madlib, doom, blockhead, blue sky black death, etc but i don't think i've heard anyone mention j zone when talking about the dopest producers. so yeah i agree he's known, but i don't think he gets the credit he deserves...

and it goes without saying by the way that soo many cats on the sp forums are criminally underrated...the beats i hear on these forums are better than %90 of what i hear "out there"... underground or mainstream...

[a.D.]

I hear you- but when I say he's well known for what He does, I mean he's a dude that's always made basically completely sample based, crate digging shit, and made a good career out of it- which not a whole lot of late-post 90's producers on that type of shit can say. So in the overall small circle of heads that consume our kind of hip hop, he's been pretty successful. You can even go on undergroundhiphop.com and there's a whole radio station for just him and his productions. You are right that a lot of people don't consider him to be on the same level as a madlib or flying lotus for some reason. I think maybe a lot of backpacker/indie hiop hop kids are probably turned off by his lyrics, since he doesn't try to be all abstract & poetic/overly intellectual & shit.
But my comment was more aimed at the cat that dismissed the fact that Jay Dee didn't become recognized as one of the best producers ever till he died, but was quick to be like the fourth person to list off his favorite j- zone joints. The man never got to see his greatest success, at least in physical form, so in his lifetime, you could say he's the most underrated producer EVER.
I gotta add one more name I haven't seen mentioned--Ayatollah-- Dude has been amazing for years, and that's someone you NEVER hear about.

[Les Braun]

damu the fudgemunk and godfather don are pretty good producers, too, not to mention good emcees

[fauna]

nobody has mentioned Nobody, and I think this cat is suuuuper ill.

http://www.mushrecords.com/artist/Nobody.php

Noooooooboooooooooody.