your readership is type old… you could have just held this contest 5 years ago when you launched the site and the results would have been the same

As ace as Thoro is, it could be Premo – but it’s theone I had to pick.

As ace as Hold You Down is, it’s a bit light for Prodigy (Dirty New Yorker is right for him) and that other emcee must have paid someone to get on it.

I especially like Casual’s I Gotta [Get Down] cos it’s original (assuming that’s the instr. you used to hear for radio show freestyles) but it wasn’t available.

@Ross: Casual was in Round 2 but didn’t make the play-offs.

I think ‘Thug Music’ should have been considered fo this. His best beat in my opinion.

‘Keep It Thoro’ wins out of the beats listed.

DAM! no indie records! some of his BEST beats are for indie acts. my opinion. I guess people forget. Buc 50 joints, Big Daddy kane “The Man The Icon” joint Dilated Peoples “The Platform” NaS “My Way” Casual’s joint, the pharohe monch & m.o.p. joint off internal affairs album what!! I could go on.. CNN “Bang Bang” ok I’m done.

you guys do have indies records listed for the record. but….

hardest decision i ever had to make

Okay i missed the boat with this poll, havent been on the internets in a minute…

but if i could go back in time ‘The Grimey Way’ wouldve had my vote cos that is clearly the illest beat not on that list…with the exception of ‘keep it thoro’ and ‘tell em im here’ they are some of alcs more punk smoove beats. but yeah all opinion yada yada yada

Yea one of my faves is dilated’s “last line of defense” which didnt make the cut .. i liked the hold u down joint tho

I’m partial to the “D Block to QB” joint. A local artist out my way got busy on that beat a while back: http://jo-dbl.bandcamp.com/track/footprint

Other than that, I’d have to say, “Keep It Thoro”

Stuck On You? Seriously? People prefer that to Mac Ten Handle, or Return Of The Mac, or Rotten Apple, or Raining Guns And Shanks or Dirty New Yorker?

Obviously the answer is We Gon’ Make It here, and if that doesn’t win the entire internet should just be closed down because the riff-raff have completely ruined it.

We gon make it has 2 be one of alc’s worst beats ever. R u serious?
It was a toss up for me between Keep it thoro & Three. Hold u down does bang tho’.

Sorry to above but i went for We Gon Make It as i think it’s a helluva sample but it was a close thing with Keep It Thoro and i’m a big fan of Bumpy’s Tell Em i’m Here! Bang Bang ( Shoot Em Up ) really knocks and all his tracks with CNN, Mobb and the Qb clan are just brilliant. Dead Bodies, Flashlight and We Gon Buck all rock hard!!!
ALC is the man!

Points deducted for the Beats by Gay headphones.

Some gems to choose from. My vote goes to Keep It Thoro though.

@haroon agreed. I see middle aged biz execs on the plane wearing these too.

@Robbie

That’s what I meant by “…but it wasn’t available.”

@ MF

Mac 10 Handle!!!! I knew there was a banger I was forgetting. That one’s better than Thoro.

I declare a spoilt ballot. If we can’t re-vote, can we form a coalition with Thoro and Mac 10?

I really really miss Buc Fifty: Still Breathin’ & Dead End Street in this competition?????????

keep it thoro is my all time favorite beat; first time I heard it I was at a Luau on Oahu (of all places). The party was dying down, I was feeling nice off the pretty umbrella drinks so I starting kicking it with the DJ. He starts playing me his latest records from the East Coast, then all of a sudden he throwns on ‘keep it thoro’. I was instantly mesmerised by the beat and how prodigy laced it. I had that DJ play atleast 5 x in a row till the lady hosting the party told the DJ to stop. I almost got into a fight w/ that fat bitch and her husband.

No Worst comes to worst by dialated peoples?

I am surprised I didn’t see ghostface killah-the forest on there. That sample is just too crazy

Keep It Thoro, We Gonna, Backwards…… logical top 3….

Dudes yappin w/o reading the prior rounds FTL.

Keep it Thoro FTW.

No Mercy with MOP really should have made a prior round. Few songs are harder.

Strangely the beat I liked the best was the one that scored the lowest result … the arrangement on that D Block QB To D Block was ill!!!

keep it thoro people seriously, it’s “keep it thoro”, first I heard the song was the video, and I went nuts, still hot to this day