10 Best Hip-Hop Producers Of The 2010s

Hit-Boy was pretty well established prior to the 2010s rolling around. Having already produced for the likes of Chris Brown, T-Pain, Missy Elliot and Snoop Dogg, his talent was already making a buzz in the hip-hop world. Then he got his chance to produce the Lil Wayne and Eminem collaboration Drop the World. Easily the standout song from "Rebirth," the production was weighty, thick and meshed elements of hip-hop, electronic music and rock (helped by a some co-production from Travis Barker). This is the song that truly announced Hit-Boy as a producer to watch.

2011 established Hit-Boy as an A-List producer. He produced the biggest song from the Jay-Z and Kanye West collaborative album "Watch the Throne," called N**** in Paris. This earned Hit-Boy a Grammy award for Best Rap Song, and it is still beloved by hip-hop fans almost a decade later.

Since then he has produced for Kendrick Lamar, YG, Beyonce, Future, The Game and many more. And considering he opened the decade with one of the biggest hip-hop songs in recent years, it was fitting he should end the 2010s in a similar fashion with the release of Travis Scott's monumental Sicko Mode.

Hit-Boy has massive crossover appeal, helped by his willingness to draw from and experiment with a variety of genres. Still only in his early 30s, he has so much more to gift to hip-hop in the next decade.