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The producers with the best beats of the year.

XXL takes a look at the best rapper and producer pairs that prove two talents are better.

These beatmakers soundtracked your 2018 turn up.

Now that's dedication.

Kendrick Lamar's new album DAMN. is here, and with it come the full production credits for the album. As we reported, Alchemist, Cardo, DJ Dahi, Terrace Martin, Sounwave and plenty others have production work on the album. You can see the entire list of contributors below...

The two producers reached an agreement years back that never came to be.

Showing love to the people behind the boards.

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly dropped two weeks ago and has the most talked about LP since. Sounwave—who produced for the album—spoke with P&P and revealed that at least 80 songs were recorded for the LP, many of which he was sad to see miss the final cut, like the verse K.Dot...

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TDE in-house producer and A&R Sounwave has been working with the West Coast crew since 2009's Kendrick Lamar EP and has been steadily building his portfolio ever since. Over the years he's boasted credits on Ab-Soul's Control System ("Double Standards") and These Days... ...