I´ve been wondering how did they make the classic hip hop grooves with early-aged gear, that are used in many ice-t´s and others. I´v been trying to make them with cubase and tryed every quantisations, tuplets, triplets, 3/4, 4/4, and every trick between earth and moon, but never completely succeed.

808 & 606 drum machine, - mantronix used a 303 for his basslines (track bassline 303 funnily enough).. he also used a 606 drum machine.

the drums on planet rock are pure 808.

I think the linn drum was used on a lot of stuff.

as for grooves, the early production techniques sound quite simple, merely a matter of eqing stuff nicely rather than trying to merge sounds cleverly, so maybe it's all in the swing and the choice of where to put the sounds?

give us an example track/beat

for example: Naughty by Nature - O.P.P (the beat of it )

I think OPP was just a drum break to be honest ........cannae really say for sure just from memory.

I'm not sure about OPP, but i think the other shit is
just a var of funky drummer (see above)