Trilla wrote:Being a "producer" doesn't mean you are making the beats...
Most people use that term but it is largely inaccurate.
Dudes like Kanye, Dre, Mike Will, Eminem, DJ Premier, Timbaland, and so on and so on. They all have a team of guys creating different sounds until one of the "producers" I mentioned above like what they hear. That team of people are the beat makers. Guys like Lex Luger, DJ Jerm (Wiz Khalifa's "producer") are all beat makers. Gathering the samples, placing the drums. The Alchemist is a beat maker as well.
I'm sure at some point Eminem was making his own beats as well with Dre helping him PRODUCE the sounds he wanted to make. Overseeing what Em was doing and adding his own taste.
Dre and Rick Rubin executive producing the album means that they are adding their own sounds to the beats being handed to Em. They are seeing what they could add because they believe it would help benefit the sound of album. That's what Eminem did for Skylar's album. They didn't necessarily make the beats, but the sounds you hear were largely influenced by their choices.
Difference between a Producer and a Beatmaker, in a lot of cases, is a beatmaker just makes the beats, a producer makes the beat, handles everything and produces a song. His job isn't done until a song comes out of it, usually. Of course, I guess you would say in THIS scenario I'm saying, that'd be a Super-Producer.
Only time will tell about production, the list will give a general idea of where we are heading but you wont be able to tell until you hear it. 
