Like they don’t give a f*** about the rapper at all. They just listen to songs just cause a producer they stan is on it. Like you know everything about the producer like you’d know the rapper. You don’t even care who’s rapping on it you just listen for yhe producer

Pierre Bourne fans

I’m the opposite. If a song has a mid or even trash beat but the rapping or singing is fire it’s a good song to me. I’m moved by vocal performances more than anything else. The production, similar with lyrics, are just supplementary

Def listened to some projects/songs mostly for Madlib beats

I’ve always been a production first guy. If the beat trash I’m not suffering through to hear the lyrics. It’s music at the end of the day

yes its more than the music i need the producer in me

I don’t listen just for the producer, I don’t care about who made the beat at all because every producer has good and bad beats

But I do care about the production over vocals, a bad beat is an automatic skip for me, bad vocals still has somewhat of a chance

I used to listen to instrumental music exclusively

Pharcyde / Slum Village / Later Tribe for the J Dilla beats

Yea im assuming that’s what OP meant. Totally agree wit you. Also avi to post >>>

I’m invested in all aspects since I make beats and rap. Like one of the greatest things Metro did and Future started recently was releasing the instrumental version of their albums. Tyler did it with Cherry Bomb and Wolf too. Plenty artists do it and I wish all artists did it. It just adds a different element to the song and actually made me revisit songs I may have skipped before and see how the lyrics fit the beat

I think the producers are equally as important since they are necessary

I wish that’s how my taste worked.. they both have to be really good equally.. but I do catch myself discovering new music with a better beat than lyrical value these days.

Sometimes the beat shows how much the rapper adds to it.

I remember kanye west champion loving the beat and then listening to the instrumental like “ s*** sound bare as f*** “ then it hit me lol.

But ye was always good at that. Making beats that dont overpower but add to the rapper is doing (something that’s lost in current era with these new plugg n b/bell beats beating tf out these kids asses)

yea this, for me the beat is def more important than the vocals most of the time, if the vocals are mid or trash the beat can save the song, but if the beat is trash it cannot be saved. the only thing that could work is if the beat is not completely trash but mid enough and the vocals are amazing, then it could be decent overall

and thats why i listen to lunchbox lol, because amir is a god with those beats, lunchbox is very hit or miss

i am a producer tho and that definitely plays a part

Carti fans

Hell no

Production is def important and I can vibe with some of the artists that are more vibe over substance but

I’m a fan of hiphop and so I’m always gonna respect the art of rapping

He’s one of the most interesting vocalists of modern time

defeats the purpose, might as well listen to the instrumentals instead

I cant think of a new age rap producer who im on like that, other genre’s sure

It's a team game

There was plenty of rappers back in 2009-2015 I only listened to for the production

I'd listen to any 1017 tape back then at least for the producers/teams of producers cause they couldn't miss even if they tried back then

Right now I try to listen to most of what Harry fraud makes no matter who's on it, and I've been listening to whatever/whoever dj smokey produces for like 10 years now too, dude actually made rage music tolerable on certain tapes

But if you find yourself only caring about the production most the time, try to find electronic/edm stuff that also does styles similar to what you gravitate towards

Troyboi for instance is heavily tied to a hip hop sound (and neo soul I think is the term for a lot of his sampling techniques but idk) and on the album left is right there's a lot of minimal additions from rappers like ice cube, but most his music is instrumental or minimal on lyrics

UZ comes to mind too but I stopped following him years ago.

Only for certain rappers like Travis or Ken Carson.