88 was the best Hip Hop and R&B summer ever. We had Keith Sweat, Al B Sure, Guy and we had Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, BDP, Biz Markey, EPMD, Stetsasonic, Douggie Fresh drop albums along with the summer bangers like Rob Base "It Takes Two"
He’s my favorite producer ever! He literally created a new genre and produced hits for himself (Guy) and others including Michael Jackson. Fun fact that many people don’t know: He produced Hi-Fives “I like the way”
Such a multi talented person. His story's amazing!!..He's accomplished so much at a young age and interesting hearing about the people he's worked with.
As a fellow Harlemite.. I’m smiling ear to ear listening to Teddy take us down memory lane! His musical career is so iconic and groundbreaking! When Keith Sweat dropped his debut album in 1987, that joint rocked from coast to coast! Make it Last Forever is a bonafide classic song and album 💿
Teddy was an artist, producer, and songwriter. He is truly unsung. They need to give him a lifetime achievement award! Thanks for this interview, Vlad!
Teddy Riley is the GOAT. Living Icon. People say he didn't get his due, but The universe and karma rewarded Teddy with longevity in the game. He teaches young producers his legacy
Man that Keith Sweat MAKE IT LAST FOREVER album is his best ever. I played the hell out of that album and once it ended I replayed it again. Make it last forever, How deep is your love, a right & a wrong way, and in the Rain are my favorite songs from that album. He`s never been able to top Make it last forever ever since. A few albums came close but not close enough.
@:08 seconds, paused for 2 minutes just to marvel at this 54 year old man’s choice is hoodie and hat, both logo selection and placement. this is definitely one of the fits of all time
Teddy Riley is a legendary producer who has worked with the best in the business for a long time and all of those song he produced or wrote as classics. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
What an excellent interview, Teddy is an example of how talent overcomes your equipment, people spend thousands and thousands of dollars at the guitar Center, buying up every piece of software, and every machine and every keyboard, and here he had the bare minimum and made beautiful timeless records, it all comes down to talent
He is really a Genius I have that same Drum Machine the Korg DDD-1 and could never get it to groove. I always felt I need more expensive gear. Years later I realized he used that same machine for all his songs you can hear that snare drum so clearly.
True geniuses at work!! People have always slept on Teddy Riley and Keith Sweat. Teddy paved the way for R. Kelly and so many others with his talents and skills. Miss the New Jack era!! It was cool to dance back then
TEDDY RILEY DID NOT CREATE THE NEW JACK SWING SOUND.. IT ALREADY EXISTED. FULL FORCE CREATED THW BEW JACK SWING SOUND.. JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS EVEN DID A NEW JACK SWING ALBUM WITH JANET JACKSON BEFORE TEDDY RILEY DID NEW JACK SWING.. JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS RECORDED THE CONTROL ALBUM IN 1985 AND IT WAS RELEASED IN FEBRUARY 1986
I'm considering becoming a memeber just to hear the whole interview.. I always respected Teddy for his work with Black street, I thought he deserved more props.. But I never knew he worked with Keith sweat, my respect for him has just shot up
This man is a literal living legend! It’s hard to even wrap your mind around the impact he has made and the amount of lives and experiences that his music has been the background to! I’m just fascinated by his talent and his legacy but more than anything else I’m most impressed by who he is at his core! He’s a RARE one in many aspects!
One of the greatest R&B albums in history. First R&B album that knocked like a hip hop record. I remember hearing all the drug dealers bumping this in their wips. Singer over 808 drums was unheard of at that time. Literally every song on that album is dope
@@terrance75 Marvin Gaye and MJ were not using hip hop beats before Teddy. Marvin was strictly making R&B/Soul music and MJ was on some Pop sh*t. You are buggin tripping.
@@silverblackguerrilla4370 Yes they were. I have listened to Marvin Gaye's last album and some of his unreleased tracks. Yes Michael Jackson had hip hop beats you don't know anything about. Thomas Dolby was a mastermind of beats and also had tracks that you don't know of or have ever heard from his 1984 album. There are other artists who had hip hop beats in their songs too.
@@terrance75 Everybody has listened to Marvin's and MJ's catalog. You act like it isn't WIDELY available to the public or something. Since YOU'RE making these ridiculous claims then NAME these so called "hip hop beats" used by them? Take your time
@@silverblackguerrilla4370 You obviously do not know much about the music industry. Did you know they had drum machines from 1957 that had electronics 80s sound. Hip hop was created officially in 1973. Clearly you are someone who doesn't have much knowledge about music origins and international influences as well as pioneers who were out years before Teddy Riley.
The only thing he left out was that Keith told him to combine his gospel chords with his rap beats and that is how he came up with that new jack swing. He needs to thank Keith everyday. lol
Johnny Kemp RIP, said he wrote it for Keith. But Keith told him he don't want it because he already submitted all the tracks for his album. So Johnny ended up singing his own song. Johnny said he didn't even rerecord it. its the same demo for Keith he released .Keith said he wrote the song when he was coming home on a Friday apid from his wall street job. The song didn't make that album so johnny recorded it. . I don't know who to believe. Maybe both cowrote it.
Yep, a lot of people don’t realize the influence Teddy had on the tech side of things as well. He is as respected for mixing and engineering as he is producing. People who worked with him validate his genius on the tech side of things. Music and tech mastered by a young Harlem kid 😮
Keith Sweat make it last forever album; I've said many times and I say it again the best R& B album ever made ( top to bottom)! Convince me other wise!
Who would have known Keith Sweat was low key street dude lol ...I would argue besides Guy album, Make it last forever, was probably his best produced Rnb album.
When I first heard "I Want Her" it blew me away. But. I've been hearing his work on the radio. I didn't know it was him at all. Johnny Kemp , Kool Moe Dee. Doug E. Fresh material. He was really doing it their in the mid-80's so young. Solid History.
We all know that Jacci McGhee gave Make It Last Forever the vocal push that it needed. Put some respect on her name. Because she brought that song home. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best Keith Sweat album of his d@mn life!!!!!!! best album that teddy Riley produced of his f^^^ life. I swear!
He said that Edwin Birdsong was the judge in the competition and told him that he could compete with a guardian’s consent. Birdsong did a song called “Cola Bottle Baby” that was sampled by Daft Punk for “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. Teddy has some interesting connections.
That's why you have to be focused on what you are trying to achieve and not get caught up in perception or viewing yourself to highly. Keith Sweat could have said "I'm a Wall Street guy. I'm not going to the projects and playing in a dice game with kids." But he recognized Teddy's talent despite his age or where he was it. And they ended up making timeless music. I always bumped "Right and a Wrong Way".
Ha everyone else seems to be praising his story telling. I love the little details, makes you feel like you are there. That’s the joy of these kind of interviews, I don’t want soundbites. I want people in their element sharing life stories. To each his own 👍🏻
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Teddy is one of the G.O.A.T's ... PERIOD!!
Facts
The first GUY album is unrivaled.
Legendary 🙏🏽
Indeed!!!
💯💯💯
Make It Last Forever album by Keith Sweat is a certified classic!! Just hit play and let the entire album play without skipping a song!!
💯
Yes, that album is flawless. Love it.
You ain't NEVER lied. First to the last track. You can just let it roll. Teddy is amazing.
True dat
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Teddy is one of the best producer's. He got classics. But I feel he don't get enough props.
He doesn’t at all
Producers. Stop killing apostrophes 🤣
He gets a lot of props for NJS. Even though, Keith Sweat already did most of the songs before reaching out to Teddy
He definitely gets his props because his production credits tell that
Oh he got enough props from me. I recognized the New Jack sound early and it was a game changer in black music back then.
When Teddy and Keith Sweat come together the music is timeless💯✊🏾 Certified legends
88 was the best Hip Hop and R&B summer ever. We had Keith Sweat, Al B Sure, Guy and we had Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, BDP, Biz Markey, EPMD, Stetsasonic, Douggie Fresh drop albums along with the summer bangers like Rob Base "It Takes Two"
Great year for music
East coast ny
Don't forget EPMD
Add in Today and Redhead Kingpin
My FAVORITE summer!💃🏿🕺🏿
He’s my favorite producer ever! He literally created a new genre and produced hits for himself (Guy) and others including Michael Jackson. Fun fact that many people don’t know: He produced Hi-Fives “I like the way”
And blackstreet
I had no clue
ANYTHING having the New Jack Swing element, Teddy Riley put the touch to it.
Johnny Kemp- Just Got Paid 🔥
R Kelly better
Such a multi talented person. His story's amazing!!..He's accomplished so much at a young age and interesting hearing about the people he's worked with.
Teddy is the man he changed music in the 80’s that’s why we got hip hop r&b
yep
he had his own sound.
@@elliot2177 He copied Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
@@dianevrules go play in traffic
@@theoriginal668 🤣 Thank you.
Keith Sweat is a living Legend ‼️🙏🏼💯
ME & YO MAMA HAD SOME MAGICAL NIGHTS TO KEITH SWEAT, SHE A GOOD WOMAN
Yooo this is black music history right here 🔥
This could be one of Vlad’s best interviews
Teddy Riley is the reason I started producing. A King in my eyes!
I never knew he produced 'Make it Last Forever'. One of my favorite pieces of music.
He’s a super gay boi
@@steviealvaalbany2730 You got receipts, yeah? You was the cameraman, right? 👋 Put some respect on Mister Riley's name.
@@crnkmnky yes
@@steviealvaalbany2730 He isn't gay, wow your not knowing
As a fellow Harlemite.. I’m smiling ear to ear listening to Teddy take us down memory lane! His musical career is so iconic and groundbreaking! When Keith Sweat dropped his debut album in 1987, that joint rocked from coast to coast! Make it Last Forever is a bonafide classic song and album 💿
Harlemlite 8th Ave.
LOL I was thinking the same thing!
You can see the swagger
@@slythe6755 Salute my Uptown comrade! We created the Swag! 🫡 👊🏽💯
Jesus Christ this probably Vlad biggest interview….
Teddy Riley is probably the best producer ever, and he is such a great storyteller
Make It Last Forever may be the first R&B album that truly hit hard in the streets as well as radio...as well as every song on there is a classic..
Teddy was an artist, producer, and songwriter. He is truly unsung. They need to give him a lifetime achievement award! Thanks for this interview, Vlad!
That Keith Sweat album actually helped me get through hard tough times! ⏺️🎙️📼
This is History. Now we need a Keith Sweat interview
Teddy put his foot in that production on that "Make It Last Forever" album. Total fire!!!
He only did a few songs on that album
@@CleanMusicLover229 That's enough for a kid. Stop hatin clown....
@@CleanMusicLover229 He did 6 of the 8 songs on the album..what the hell are you talking about?
I’ve actually witnessed this mans greatness in concert. Never thought I would have got to see him.
And history was born!!! ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL 👊🏽 👏🏾
Teddy's music changed my life, there was a before and after
Bro stfu lol “he changed my life”
Same here too man💯
Wow, that teddy riely story of keith sweat is a milestone in rnb history, all that great music they made together, legends.
Can’t forget Babyface
That extended version of make it last forever played to death in the projects down south growing up 😂 lol
Teddy Riley is the GOAT. Living Icon. People say he didn't get his due, but The universe and karma rewarded Teddy with longevity in the game. He teaches young producers his legacy
Man nothing is doper to me than hearing how musician/producers get their big breakthroughs on classic songs you had no idea had a backstory
Who ever did new edition n bobby brown biopic movie teddy needs one too
BET
Man that Keith Sweat MAKE IT LAST FOREVER album is his best ever. I played the hell out of that album and once it ended I replayed it again. Make it last forever, How deep is your love, a right & a wrong way, and in the Rain are my favorite songs from that album. He`s never been able to top Make it last forever ever since. A few albums came close but not close enough.
@:08 seconds, paused for 2 minutes just to marvel at this 54 year old man’s choice is hoodie and hat, both logo selection and placement. this is definitely one of the fits of all time
Teddy is a musical genius !
T. Riley needs to do a biopic
Teddy Riley is a legendary producer who has worked with the best in the business for a long time and all of those song he produced or wrote as classics. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
One of the greatest rnb albums ever; to dis day
i would watch a 3 hour interview of teddy riley because he be dropping 💎 super producer G.O.A.T
What an excellent interview, Teddy is an example of how talent overcomes your equipment, people spend thousands and thousands of dollars at the guitar Center, buying up every piece of software, and every machine and every keyboard, and here he had the bare minimum and made beautiful timeless records, it all comes down to talent
He is really a Genius I have that same Drum Machine the Korg DDD-1 and could never get it to groove. I always felt I need more expensive gear. Years later I realized he used that same machine for all his songs you can hear that snare drum so clearly.
Teddy's a legend. All praise to his genius and legacy.
Keep bringing the producers on your platform,this a good branch of your program.
True geniuses at work!! People have always slept on Teddy Riley and Keith Sweat. Teddy paved the way for R. Kelly and so many others with his talents and skills. Miss the New Jack era!! It was cool to dance back then
Keith Sweat was overshadowed by Al B Sure and Bobby Brown back in the day
Let this man talk.
He dropping straight history.
Thank you for the 80's and 90''s. THE KING OF NEW JACK SWING.
I love this interview man!!!!...
This is history..This man did The Show and The Wop...Wild Wild West etc.He is arguablly the best producer of all time..Sponnie G, Kool Moe D etcc.
He wasn't the main producer for The Show
@@CleanMusicLover229 Why you trying to discredit Teddy all over the comments. Get a life homie
@@romeod7549 just telling the truth.
@@CleanMusicLover229 telling the truth is one thing but you're just serial hating in the comments 🤣
Did Teddy personally wrong you?
Teddy Riley created the “New Jack Swing” sound….
ABSOLUTE LEGEND-CREATED A WHOLE GENRE & BETTER GET THE FLOWERS FOR IT ‼️
TEDDY RILEY DID NOT CREATE THE NEW JACK SWING SOUND.. IT ALREADY EXISTED. FULL FORCE CREATED THW BEW JACK SWING SOUND.. JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS EVEN DID A NEW JACK SWING ALBUM WITH JANET JACKSON BEFORE TEDDY RILEY DID NEW JACK SWING.. JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS RECORDED THE CONTROL ALBUM IN 1985 AND IT WAS RELEASED IN FEBRUARY 1986
golden era
Teddy Riley,Gene Griffin, JJ & TL, and Babyface contributed to the sound as a whole
@@doitall36 TR popularized it and made it what it is today
I'm considering becoming a memeber just to hear the whole interview.. I always respected Teddy for his work with Black street, I thought he deserved more props.. But I never knew he worked with Keith sweat, my respect for him has just shot up
Keith Sweat running up at a dice game asking for beats is the most Keith sweat thing ever…
Damn this is easily the most legendary vlad interview ever. LEGENDARY industry stories. Teddy Riley is the ONE!
This man is a literal living legend! It’s hard to even wrap your mind around the impact he has made and the amount of lives and experiences that his music has been the background to! I’m just fascinated by his talent and his legacy but more than anything else I’m most impressed by who he is at his core! He’s a RARE one in many aspects!
Teddy Riley the best R&B singer my ears have fallen in love with 👊👊👊👊👊He got more than a Piece of My Love 💕💞💞💞💞💞💯
Teddy produced the rap group “Rooftop” on “Caught Out There”, stone classic 🎉
Aaron Hall was that dude for guy. 💯👊🏾
He should have did a interview with halftime . He knows the culture of r n b better
A perfect storm of talent, legends and timing 🔥🔥🔥
Much respect & love thank you for this interview. Teddy is legendary. 🙏🏼💗
and he's an amazing human being. Good soul. Bless you Teddy for staying cool man
Legend, this man made some incredible tracks in his life
One of the greatest R&B albums in history. First R&B album that knocked like a hip hop record. I remember hearing all the drug dealers bumping this in their wips. Singer over 808 drums was unheard of at that time. Literally every song on that album is dope
Marvin Gaye, Thomas Dolby, Michael Jackson. They used hip hop beats before Teddy did.
@@terrance75 Marvin Gaye and MJ were not using hip hop beats before Teddy. Marvin was strictly making R&B/Soul music and MJ was on some Pop sh*t. You are buggin tripping.
@@silverblackguerrilla4370 Yes they were. I have listened to Marvin Gaye's last album and some of his unreleased tracks. Yes Michael Jackson had hip hop beats you don't know anything about. Thomas Dolby was a mastermind of beats and also had tracks that you don't know of or have ever heard from his 1984 album. There are other artists who had hip hop beats in their songs too.
@@terrance75 Everybody has listened to Marvin's and MJ's catalog. You act like it isn't WIDELY available to the public or something. Since YOU'RE making these ridiculous claims then NAME these so called "hip hop beats" used by them? Take your time
@@silverblackguerrilla4370 You obviously do not know much about the music industry. Did you know they had drum machines from 1957 that had electronics 80s sound. Hip hop was created officially in 1973. Clearly you are someone who doesn't have much knowledge about music origins and international influences as well as pioneers who were out years before Teddy Riley.
How come Teddy Riley is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The music industry just don't have producers like him anymore 😕
The only thing he left out was that Keith told him to combine his gospel chords with his rap beats and that is how he came up with that new jack swing. He needs to thank Keith everyday. lol
Right! It was Keith that did most of the work on that album. Some of those songs were already recorded before Keith reached out to Teddy
My favorite group of TR was wreck n effects
I didn't know he produced just got paid. This man is an absolute legend.
AN absolute legend
He produced it and Keith wrote it.
Johnny Kemp RIP, said he wrote it for Keith. But Keith told him he don't want it because he already submitted all the tracks for his album. So Johnny ended up singing his own song. Johnny said he didn't even rerecord it. its the same demo for Keith he released .Keith said he wrote the song when he was coming home on a Friday apid from his wall street job. The song didn't make that album so johnny recorded it. . I don't know who to believe. Maybe both cowrote it.
Yeah think him a KS had a lil fallout over it KS didn't know he gave it to Jonny KS recorded first 🤣😂
@@FC-xc3zy Lies. Keith Sweat wrote the song for his Make It Last Forever album. He missed the deadline to turn it the song in.
Props to Teddy Riley talking about the kid who worked downtown at Wall Street !
You mean props to Keith Sweat
@@CleanMusicLover229 Of course I’m talking about Keith Sweat … 🤦🏾♂️
HE CAN RECALL DAMN NEAR ALL THE GEAR HE EVER HAD
Yep, a lot of people don’t realize the influence Teddy had on the tech side of things as well. He is as respected for mixing and engineering as he is producing. People who worked with him validate his genius on the tech side of things. Music and tech mastered by a young Harlem kid 😮
I want a Keith Sweat Interview now!
i know right didnt know he was on wallstreet lol
Me 2
Teddy, LaFace, & Flyte Tyme are in a class by themselves when it comes to production.
That Keith Sweat album was the fabric of my youth!!
Underrated producer. He's the one who mixed hip hop and r and b by putting rappers in r and b songs . Genius!
Don't 4get it's a mixture of gospel as well
No he didn't. Rappers were making r&b songs before Teddy
He don't get enough credit, that young and he was ahead of his time ‼️
You mean Keith Sweat? Since he did 80% of the album
Keith Sweat has the greatest r&b beats of all time
One of life's greatest tragedies is that Keith Sweat's first album had ZERO music videos.
Something just ain't right had one but album so 🔥 really didn't need any .,🎤🎹💽
Lies.. Don't Stop Your Love and Something Just Ain't Right had music videos
Classic stories for these great works of art man been waiting to hear this forever.🙃
Waiting for the Guy stories. How many of Blackstreet songs would have been done by Guy? I can heard Aaron singing EVERY Blackstreet hit record.
Make It Last Forever is my fav song along with The Lady in my Life. I played them both at my wedding.
Let me just say that this man’s memory is impeccable! The details of it all!
Keith Sweat make it last forever album; I've said many times and I say it again the best R& B album ever made ( top to bottom)!
Convince me other wise!
Al B Sures album and Bobby Browns albums around that time we're just as good.
Royalty and pure genius . This man is LEGENDARY 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
The 36th anniversary of this album brought me here. I have so many unanswered questions about this album, but I am so happy to have the back story.
Teddy Riley is my 🐐 He is truly my inspiration
Dope Story about him and Sweat...🔥🔥🔥🔥
Keith sweat is the best solo r&b artist ever. So many jams. Teddy Riley producing Keith sweat, was just a bonus
Keith Sweat's first album is a masterpiece.
This story dope as hell.
Dude also did production in the rap game. He's definitely a legend.
I always say Teddy Harlem Riley and Keith Harlem Sweat! And there u have it!
I use to love the Roland S-330 to this very day.
Kemp, Sweat,Teddy, all was successful legends 👍✌
The best interviews are when Vlad shuts tf up and listens, let’s the guests talk….BRAVO!
To be a teenager in the 80’s you got busy to this tape!😛
This interview is classic ❤️❤️❤️
Who would have known Keith Sweat was low key street dude lol ...I would argue besides Guy album, Make it last forever, was probably his best produced Rnb album.
Most R & B singers are street while most rappers are soft. The irony
Teddy making them hits 🎶 🎵
Riley in a league all of his own.
No Question or Contradiction
100% the truth, this guy right here is a living legend 👏
When I first heard "I Want Her" it blew me away. But. I've been hearing his work on the radio. I didn't know it was him at all. Johnny Kemp , Kool Moe Dee. Doug E. Fresh material. He was really doing it their in the mid-80's so young. Solid History.
Most of it was done by Keith Sweat
We all know that Jacci McGhee gave Make It Last Forever the vocal push that it needed. Put some respect on her name. Because she brought that song home. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best Keith Sweat album of his d@mn life!!!!!!! best album that teddy Riley produced of his f^^^ life. I swear!
A lot of produces looked up to this man he changed the game
Keith Sweat changed the game
He said that Edwin Birdsong was the judge in the competition and told him that he could compete with a guardian’s consent. Birdsong did a song called “Cola Bottle Baby” that was sampled by Daft Punk for “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. Teddy has some interesting connections.
Teddy Riley is one of the greatest period..
See how soft spoken and chill Teddy is and you can see where Pharrell gets it from
That's why you have to be focused on what you are trying to achieve and not get caught up in perception or viewing yourself to highly. Keith Sweat could have said "I'm a Wall Street guy. I'm not going to the projects and playing in a dice game with kids." But he recognized Teddy's talent despite his age or where he was it. And they ended up making timeless music. I always bumped "Right and a Wrong Way".
Teddy can drag a story
Ha everyone else seems to be praising his story telling. I love the little details, makes you feel like you are there. That’s the joy of these kind of interviews, I don’t want soundbites. I want people in their element sharing life stories. To each his own 👍🏻
@@brentwylie5558 some people like dry...and that's you. It's cool. He's was a dope producer so let's agree on that.