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Q-Tip   All the Tribe stuff, what they sampled, how they started sampling, songs like Check The Rhime were WOW, most of Low End Theory changed the game, drums, mixing wise (Bob Power), lyricism, ima

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Cant believe only one person said Robert

 

lol wtf most musical geniuses compose soundtracks for billion dollar movies but...

 

 

Artie shaw

Johnny cash

Curtis mayfield

Frank sinatra

jimmy hendrix

michael jackson

paul mc cartney

john lennon

ray charles

freddy mercury

bob dylan

beethoven bach mozart tchaikovsky blah blah blah

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Producers -

Quincy Jones - Track record speaks for its self.

Timbaland - Always kept re-inventing his sound bank. When you pay attention to his instrumentals there is alot going on in the background. The way they all sit together is Genius.

 

Pharrell Williams/Neptunes - Catalog speaks for its self.

 

Scott storch - A genius at mimicking other peoples sound.

Ryan Leslie - He knows a good melody.

J-dilla - Very slept on. In terms of breaking samples

 

As far as Artist goes.

Music Genius is very rare. Mj is the only guy I can think off to be honest.

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Q-Tip

 

All the Tribe stuff, what they sampled, how they started sampling, songs like Check The Rhime were WOW, most of Low End Theory changed the game, drums, mixing wise (Bob Power), lyricism, image, black righteousness. This is like the start of the left of centre hip hop shit, so so many things today can be attributed to what Tribe did. Midnight Marauders just hit it out the park

 

His production input on The Infamous, One Love for Illmatic, swear he was on Girls Girls Girls

 

He 'brought' Dilla through, was his protege, Dilla stands alone (he's genius too) but Tip was there. The backbone for the whole Soulquarian movement around 96-04, so much great music derived from here - The Roots, D'Angelo, Erykah, Bilal, Mos, Talib. I'd say Kanye is a child of this too

 

His solo shit was ahead of his time IMO, the music of Kamaal The Abstract, and The Rennaisance is a personal classic of mine ... Life Is Better...

 

He's a genius to me

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These are all musical geniuses imo 

 

Fela Kuti

Moondog

Jim Morrison

Syd Barrett

Ian Curtis

Jimmy Hendrix

Osunlade

Mozart

Prince

Phillip Glass

Bjork 

JD

James Brown

Bob Dylan

Frank Zappa

louis armstrong

 

Tried to keep it balanced across most genres 

 

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Nothing pop included and I struggled to think of any rappers that I could put in that list, the closest was probably Kanye 

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