You can't compare Daz to JT, Sean T, and E-A Ski....DAZ went from WAAAAYYYY UP HEEEEEERE, with the #1 Gangsta Rap Label in the country, to down where we are. Now he's at So So Def, and I STILL ain't hearin people talkin about DAZ, which is odd because when JD signs somebody, they are all over the place. Also, you seem to forget, the BAY is just starting to get it's shine back after about 8-10 years. So yes, while Sean T, JT, and E-A are talented, they've been slept on with EVERYBODY ELSE in the Bay, and that is why they are still underground, because people were overlooking this entire region for years.
About DRE, dude is the DOPEST PRODUCER in RAP MUSIC RIGHT NOW and has been for years. People who have worked with him have been quoted as saying he is one of the BEST PRODUCERS EVER. You have to realize, music production is waaaaay more complicated than making a beat. If somebody makes beat and says "I'm a producer" I have to correct them. Daz may have touched some of those songs, but he didn't like he said he did. I find it interesting that all these new, young cats that "make all the beats" have the same style. I can hear a song and say, "Dre"...I seriously DOUBT all these youngstaz have the SAME VIBE in all their beats.
That ain't even it, Dr. Dre mixes, masters, arranges, composes, that's a producer. But, like I said, Dre didn't get all the credit on ALL EYES ON ME for making the beats, he got credit for producing the hit single which blew 2Pac COMPLETELY out of the water.
Mel Man has a lot of balls speaking on Chronic 2001...a good amount of the beats on that album were made by an orchestra and other instrument players, that's what was so sick about it, and DRE arranged that shit, then he PRODUCED it.