Does this mean anything or just a marketing buzzword this thread prompted from jacquees announcing his next project will be produced by future but what does that even mean?

Detroit 2 Executive Produced by Kanye West

One year later:

it means they were in the studio while at least one song was being made and they heard the completed album first

Young Thug invented when he lied and said Drake exec produced BTG

I remember that Drake didnt even post the album on his ig

Executive producer is in charge of the producers and the business aspects

I mean, those things could fall under exec production but it’s kind of broader than that

If I had to define it really quick like you did, exec producing is just picking the tracklist

But op really talking about the recent type which is they don’t really do anything and aren’t even officially credited as exec producers, but the artist just says they exec produced for clout (Thug with Drake, Thug with Cole, Carti with Kanye, etc)

Yes

Jesus Is King 2 by Kanye West and Dr. Dre out now

exec producers can mean as little as ‘contributing creativeness or inspiration’ to a project

so effectively in most cases it doesnt mean anything