Rate this Producer-Day 1: Teddy Riley

[Doctor Wily]

He made casio keyboards & midi funky.

All jokes aside without Teddy putting on Pharrell & Chad the way he did who knows how much longer the neptunes would've waited to finally blow.

 

[Doctor Wily]

.Teddy Riley saved R&B from an awful place.

He gave it a shot of life cause it could've easily went in many directions at that point in 1986/1987 both good and bad.

Fusing R&B & Hip-Hop at the time was looked down upon before he brought some musicality to it & really made it work.

 

[Child_Of_God]

An easy 10.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

I think Ted could have had a longer run if not for a few things.
The first is a common rookie mistake. He spread himself too thin.
He was taking on way too much work and that backfires
You saturate the radio with your sound and people get tired of it or it gets predictable
Ted brought in a slew of apprentices to help him even out his work load but that didn't stop the burnout
Ted got lazy and started leaning on ripping off old records instead of writing new music.
Teddy's Jam 2 is an example of this. It sound like a overdone homage to Atomic Dog rather then the refreshing groove of the first Teddy's Jam
The rip off of DeBarge's Time Will Reveal for Blackstreet's Jesus Is Real was blatant, lazy, and shameful even though it got a ton of radio play.
The work he did on Michael Jackson's Dangerous was his creative peak (in part due to MJ's mentoring and co-production) and he's not come close that level of innovation since.

That said, Teddy Riley saved R&B from an awful place, changed the face of music production forever and left a long trail of classics in his wake.
He continued to influence R&B and hip-hop after his heyday through his protegees, Timbaland and The Neptunes.
For that, Teddy gets 10/10. He is one of the most important producers in the modern era of music, period.

repped for the bolded alone. But whole post on point

you cant go lower than an 8, objectively, for that alone. Having such a huge presence on mjs sound and essentially replacing but keeping the same quality control-quincy jones element

in the 90s era creatively

 

[krazykid18]

Ted got lazy and started leaning on ripping off old records instead of writing new music.
Teddy's Jam 2 is an example of this. It sound like a overdone homage to Atomic Dog rather then the refreshing groove of the first Teddy's Jam
The rip off of DeBarge's Time Will Reveal for Blackstreet's Jesus Is Real was blatant, lazy, and shameful even though it got a ton of radio play.

That said, Teddy Riley saved R&B from an awful place, changed the face of music production forever and left a long trail of classics in his wake.

He never got lazy, he was doing that from jumpstreet ...
my prerogative is gap bands burn rubber
Cheating girl is its a shame
Girl i got my eyes is show me what you...

So lets not act like teddy wasnt always a song xeroxer...him , larry blackmon,dude who produced the barkays and maurice starr were the best copying another person song for their own

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Underrated joint.

I never paid this jawn any mind.

 

[KodeBlue]

10 just off the strength of MJ alone. Everything else is a bonus.

 

[lurker emeritus]

Love NJS but I gave him an 9. More or less created a genre, but I can't give him a perfect and I'm not sure why. I may have to come back to this.

teddy is not an otherworldly lyricist, that's why
so correct, he can't be a 10
he had ghost producers just like anyone else (keith sweat)
but wasn't as prolific as the best of the best
and i'm sure mj contributed heavily to the lyrics/melodies on dangerous so there's that also
but since he created a genre (that only lasted 5 years) he gets a 8.5 (rounded up)

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

Ironically I don't know much of his production work outside Janet & Michael, Dangerous & Rhythm Nation are the only New Jack Swing albums I remember actually bumping, never been too much of a fan of NJS.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Beat is absurd