I just got really sad because I realized the greatest beat of all time was probably deleted forever by some producer who just wasn’t feeling it at the time.

It's crazy sometimes that the beats producers don't like are the one's that artists end up jumping on. At the end of the day all beats matter whether🔥 or 💩

The way Kanye chopped that sample for Gold digger made it what it is today. If he had chopped it like most producers it would have never been anything.

Man, born in 79 growing up with Cypress Hill, Wu Tang, Snoop Dogg, Funkdoobiest, Lords of the Underground and House of Pain (to name a few) I love your detailed "how they produced it" videos from this era. Please keep em coming.

That self-conscious reaction to simplicity is real. I started making beats with a songwriting perspective as before I wrote rock songs, once I ditched that mentality and stripped down the musicality of my beats, they instantly got way better. Less is more! 🙏

I also think Havoc didn't like the "Shook Ones" beat, which is crazy right? That beat is something else! You should check that out and make a part 2

This is so true. About 20 years ago (During the height of Lil Jon) I made a beat as tongue-in-cheek parody of his, because I hated how simplistic all his melodies were. It only took me about 10 minutes and I was literally laughing the whole time. I even named it PARODY. So a few days later I'm playing my latest beats for my brother, cousin and their friend who all rapped. I tell them I made this parody beat of Lil Jon and play it for them expected us all to get a good chuckle, they go silent and start head nodding furiously like "Yo, that one cold!". They loved it, and I was flabbergasted, lol!

Bruh, that Alchemist beat was life at one point. But I can imagine what it would've been if he felt it was "complete"

the thing is, that i've had to learn over the years.. is simplicity works really well for the artist. it gives them lots of room to put their own flavor and creativity into it. to us producers it seems like it isn't enough or is just too basic, but that is exactly what a great artist needs sometimes. it gives them room to do their magic.

I remember watching that Alchemist DEHH interview YEARS ago and that particular segment stuck with me. As soon as I saw the title and thumbnail I knew you had it here 😂 brilliant video idea

Love the vids Nav keep em coming. Always loved your work as a producer 🙌🏾

A big thank you for this video! I just started making beats a couple of days ago and unfortunately, I have very high standards, thanks for giving us a new perspective!

How do you recreate all these tracks? Just by ear? How do you find the exact sounds? It's impressive!

Im shocked at Memory Lane being on here. That's my favorite beat on Illmatic.

Honestly, you should make videos just showing how famous beats were made, these really give insight in how those legendary producers work and which rythms/sounds they use.

Discovered your channel yesterday been on a rabbit hole since. Music be trash lately so instead I listen to shorts or videos while I workout, Love your stuff 💪🏼

That deep cover one was really unexpected cuz that shit knocks so hard

Damn, gating the kicks/snare in the sample so you can add your own is something ive needed to hear. Ill be trying that on my next sample

Love the break down brother… well done🙏🏾

Your attention to detail is amazing. I am glad you found music beat production and teaching others to use that gift instead of like crocheting complicated things or some other shit. :-/

If Nas told me he liked a beat I would immediately throw it in the trash

I dont make beats but watching your videos make me feel like i could actually learn. Pretty awesom

Your videos are great! Here’s something I’ve always wondered about Deep Cover: The Piano stab might be from the Isaac Hayes song Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic (that’s actually the title lol). There’s a piano breakdown near the end of the song and I think that’s where the piano is from.

your content is flames my guy

This vid is the only reason I knew to update my Serato to 2.0, that stem separator is so useful

Love these videos, you definitely inspired me to dust off my cobwebs and get back into it… My beats been getting better since 🎯💪🏾

Just discovered your channel. Awesome stuff! I've been using FL studio for almost 20 years now.

Thank you for the amazing work you do, banger videos 🔥 always

I love how you remake it and the editing

Dope video bro, you're the best in this genre imo. Numero uno.

Somehow, the story always comes back to the feeling, what a certain beat triggers in you. On one occasion, Lord Finesse spoke in one of his interviews about a song he did with Biggie, where he was not clear why he chose such a beat for his song (Suicidal Thoughts). It talks about your emotional status, what you hide from the eyes of others around you. Yes, certain artists have the power to refine your beat and make it bigger and stronger, it doesn't turn out that way planned. Tastes differ, people differ. Everyone is looking for that one beat that will satisfy all groups of listeners. There is no such beat. It is also dangerous to experiment with a proven recipe that you have accustomed your listeners to. I also sometimes wonder how some songs resonated so well with the audience, while some other songs, on which more energy was invested to create, passed under the radar. It is difficult for an artist who spends hours and days making beats, to understand how some of their beats are not celebrated beats, but that matters only to the creator. In the end, only the beat that you managed to sell counts, the beat that elevated you as an artist. It's surprising how much a simple idea can resonate. That's why I think it's okay to make more songs and ideas, and then make a selection at the end. Also, a song today does not have to be recorded in the same mood the next day. Everything depends on the moment, on the feeling, on the current mood as a result of many factors. Also, I've never understood people who write their songs without a beat to inspire them, but I've experienced artists write their song on one beat and sound much better with the same song on a different beat. 🤔

I'm new to your content. On this alone, I'm watching all your content for sure: Thank you for including clips of the hypothetical options that producers avoided! When didactic videos of any kind just throw out hypothetical things to avoid without proof of it, they're asking way too much of an intended audience of novices.

I can't imagine Illmatic without Memory Lane, it links the album together

That Mobb Deep "The Releast" was definitely one of my favorites to listen to back in the days and i actually still listen to this currently

thankful for all your videos 🙏

Memory Lane is a great example of give and take between producer and artist. And how Nas does have good taste in beats, wanted to use the Juicy sample before Biggie did and premier said no. When Nas performs memory lane live you can tell he loves that shit

I've always thought Deep Cover was one of the greatest beats in the genre, very surprising to learn Dr Dre didn't like it!!

Great vid as always 🤜🏾

I think I just found my favorite new youtube channel, subscribed

great video, had no idea Primo hated Memory lane, one of my favs off of Illmatic, But it's worth to add how Dre's Deep cover gave birth to Big Pun and Fat joes Twins, a far superior song in my opinion. Btw , great job with the recreations :)

Cool video, you earned a sub! Do a part 2 if you find out other good examples too! :)

Great video bro that was awesome!

Great vid and I like how you shift the direction of your content. Interesting fact, Big Pun & Fat Joe also used Dre's beat for Twinz. Talk about trash to treasure.

your assessments are next level

Dawg, your video is awesome. Subscribed and hit the like for you my brother!

Nice to see The Realest make an appearance. One of my favorite Kool G Rap verses of all time (out of many), and I like the beat. From the way Mobb and G Rap spit on it, it’s hard to tell which bar of the beat is 1234 and which is 5678, which is a kinda weird thing about it.

I’m guessing the Alchemist beat was the Kool G Joint off Murda Muzik. He said that shit was supposed to be an album intro. You could do a whole episode on Havoc, it seems like there’s a direct inverse relationship between his liking of his beats and the public reception of the end song.

i really enjoyed this man, cheers

This was a great video. I have to be reminded often by friends and artists that only other producers care how you made the beat. You can loop something with no drums added and if the rapper likes it, it’s a go. You can also chop a sample to a 1000 piece puzzle and nobody will care. 🤦🏾‍♂️. Just make a tight beat and move on. Ohh and you “from scratch” producers who don’t sample, people don’t care if you played a vi-ii-iii-v-I chord progression with a synth that you designed from a sine wave layered with a wavetable oscillator 😑. At the end of the day, just make something you like 🤷🏾‍♂️

Brilliant vodeo. Very insightful and a great watch 👍

Navie you make such a Good Content. Thank you ♥️

Big up bro u sparked something in me for real

I know this moment too well, where I just hate a beat I'm making while everyone else is enjoying it more than the ones that I love

I remember grabbing Public Enemy’s Greatest Misses when it first came out. I’d had this one beat in my head since about ‘87 and it was 90% Hazy Shade of Criminal. Talk about a deja vu all those years later and was on kind of a cast off album. Love PE

It's funny that you posted this video, cuz for the first time since I started making beats last year, I finally made one which I don't like. I'll still put it out there tho. One man's trash is another's treasure, you never know.

I love your channel. Thanks:)

Good stuff, Navie!

man your video was insane, the like button lit up when you said that.

Deep cover is a banger and im shocked to hear Dre hated it

Yo that tip for gating the kick and snare blew my mind 🤯 I'm def gonna be trying that out

Dope job recreating the beat

can’t believe i’m late again 😢 keep up the good work gang

Deep Cover is so iconic… It never occurred to me how simple it’s construction was because each piece fits perfect.

Dang I’m early! Hyped to watch this before I go to bed haha.

One of the best beat breakdown videos ever made

I LOVE Deep Cover. I loved it when it first came out and still do today.

Dope Video!

Great video

You missed a pivotal ingredient of the Deep Cover beat - I can feel it! :)

that's probably because rappers look for different things than producers, it's easier to get a placement with an 8 bar loop copied and pasted than with a 3 section beat. And that's because it's easier to flow over a beat that doesn't change that much as well as when you make more sections or put more sounds it's more likely that some of them the rapper won't like

Dope Video Nav

See that’s how u make old school beats. The way u recreated the beats. Sounds legit and that’s what I respect. As Most of the drums, bass etc were samples. Idk but for me I dislike when producers on the internet say “how to make a 90s style beat” but they using trap style drum packs instead of samples.

Dope video bro 🫡

ALMOST CRIED WHEN YOU DID THE REALEST MOBB DEEP. ONE OF MY FAVE BEATS OF ALL TIME

Very cool video! :)

I have so much music I haven't put out because of my weirdly specific standards. But even with what i have released, the music that I don't like anymore as much much tends to be my most popular. My most streamed song is a song I made during a mental breakdown and spent like 10 minutes mixing and mastering lol.

If Dre didn’t like deep cover than maybe I am too self critical. That was my favourite song for ages

I really thought I was alone. 20 years producing, this is news to me

Deep cover is one of the best beats of all times, at least to me

That eerie chord in ‘Deep Cover’ is called dissonant harmony, but your remake seemed like it was syncopated better

Navie always delivers! 💪😎👍

I can understand cuz I'm an artist myself and I can understand how a beat might be weird or might sound trash to the producer but that what makes it a challenge for the artist to see what he or she can create with that sound that the typical artist might of passed on that really create separation from the artist that can create something dope with any production than an artist who is just so one dimensional with there signature sound and preference

This is real af it's always the easy stuff that gets attention I jus find that stuff boring like if it's easy to make there isn't enough there to make me say "oh shi that was nuts" I've noticed that a simple approach to music appeals to normal people way more (there's a real difference in someone that lives in new sound vs someone that isnt look for that at all)

What's crazy to me is the fact that so many infamous beats are just samples puzzled together instead of original melody's and drums

As an Artist I've done crazy detailed Artwork and a simple variation for customers and Was Shocked when they went with the simple version I just threw together to My absolute Horror sometimes when I see Them post it.

Wait, does the Serato Sample standalone for FL have the Studio features? My Serato plugin for Logic is still the same basic ass version from when I bought it a couple years ago. Ive been waiting for the update with the Studio features for a while now, damn

Ayo, that deep covered remake is sick, it sounds just like the one Dre did. 👍🏾👊🏾🍺 great job 👏🏾

I thought the synth in Missy's song added something memorable about it like when you're trying to remind someone of the song you go to sing that specific part. "Yeah that Missy song...the one that went Boop BeeBoop". Or something like that idk when I be talking about sometimes.

I used a clevinger jr. bass on deep cover, and played it live from the beginning to the end

Creating for the masses tastes usually leaves us creative folk feeling kind of empty, although it does help fill the bank account. Am not a musician although guess the same principles apply.

Yo deep cover drums are the illest

iv i've probably made thousands of beats and i can only think liking a few to this day. I genuinely believe most of my beats are just come out trash all the time and i just don't realize it in the moment, going back multiple times does help but still lol Still working everyday to improve tho. Just now over the past 4 months or so been way more consistant, even though pretty much everyday since 2019 ive been making beats.

I giggled a little but also that you were like . Cause im not dr.dre which was humble bet def know you have absolute genius in you too king not only do you help maintain the culture with the history but also help beatmakers with techniques and anither fun insight is that you're naturally calming to the nervous system with your speech approach background colors and even lack of flashy visuals (i have ptsd)

I love this content 💯

This is such an interesting video. The beat for memory lane is wonderful, Nas knew what he needed to tell his story. Glad he asked Premier to do it!

Great great video do your thang 👏❤

Bruh that Alchemist beat is one of my DAMN faves EVER!

I miss the days of mainstream music having beats like this 😢

Thanks for the Gating tip

That's why it's important to do things you don't necessarily like sometimes