in the last year, this "ghost producer" **** has gotten out of hand. yes, there are times when people straight up STEAL a beat from the real beatmaker.
but by saying that "Dre's team has been out the closet for years," your making it seem as if they didn't start getting their credit until they "exposed" dre. i have to disagree, if u look as far back as dre's been using musicians, he's always given credit where credit is due. no more, no less. some people tend to exaggerate his musicians worth, for example, when scott storch said that he came up with the riff on Still DRE, that's all he said. then people who confuse that with "making a beat" started saying, "Storch produced Still DRE!"
then somehow, now i see people saying that Storch produced most of Chronic 2001 & Dre took all the credit... i have no idea where this came from. if u check the credtis on Chronic 2001, storch only played Keys on 7 out of 22 tracks! and out of that 7, about 5 or 6 of these tracks, including Still DRE, had another Keyboardist named Camara Kambon played alongside Storch. how come people forget to name Camara Kambon when they claim that Storch did the whole Chronic 2001? he appeared on almost every track on the album.
i think we are the ones to blame for "not giving enough credit," and also "giving too much credit" to certain individuals, because 9 out of 10 times, everybody is given the credit they deserved. but since most people these days download the albums instead of buying them, i guess they just can't seem to get their hands on the liner notes....
and yes, there are times when people aren't given the credit they deserve, like when Mahogany produced "It's Alright" for Jay Z, his name was nowhere to be found in the credits. now he's rollin with Dr. Dre, and guess what, his name appears in the credits!
P.S.: i wasn't dissing anyone on this board, so don't try to get at me.
