There’s an interesting interview with Jam & Lewis on the Mixonline website. It mostly delves into the production environment Jam & Lewis like and other industry tidbits, but there is one interesting piece of news. They nonchalantly mention that work is being done on the latest Time album as if its something of non-historic value. Why couldn’t they take the interview a little more in that direction?!
I know this is probably old news in Internet time but its still worth posting about. Teddy Riley has come out of the album track widerness and delivered a remix to John Legend’s latest single ‘Its Over’ for his album Evolver.
In what might seem the most unlikeliest of projects for DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg, and Teddy Riley, the trio, now known as QDT, have contributed their own version of Johnny Cash’s “I Walk The Line” on the upcoming release Johnny Cash Remixed (due out stateside January 27th).
Looks like Teddy Riley’s resurgence is gaining more momentum with announcement that he is providing production for EPMD’s new reunion album We Mean Business (due out stateside December 9th) along with former Little Brother member/producer, 9th Wonder. The first single, ‘Listen Up‘, is produced by Teddy and is floating around the net. For a sneak preview you can check it here.
Judging by the single it looks like Teddy’s getting his talk-box and New Jack beats back on. Bodes well for the rest of the album.
Mexican super-producers and Flyte Tyme co-horts Bobby Ross & Izzy Avila aka The Avila Brothers are in the studio working with Anthony Hamilton and Deborah Cox on their respective new albums.
Looks like Teddy may be hooking up with fellow Harlemite Juelz Santana on his upcoming album ‘Born to Win, Built to Lose (The Reagan Era)’. You can check the brief interview on MTV here
Looks like this has been in the works for a while but for those out of the loop Teddy has been working with up and coming artist M Watts who also happens to be his nephew.
Finally! Of all the places we could have looked who would of thought VH1 themselves would post the performance footage… go figure.
It’s not the whole show but you can check out all the tribute performances here.
More on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors New Jack performance. Still waiting for a rip (if you got a link hit us up on the comments) but from the sounds of the breakdown below it was a hell of a show!
“Hip hop entrepreneur and producer Diddy took the stage to introduce his mentor and big brother, Andre Harrell, giving him props for setting the stage and paving the way for him to become the artist he is today, calling him the “Berry Gordy of his time.” Also paying homage to Teddy Riley, Diddy dubs him the “first dude to rock the dark shades indoors,” citing him as the “original best of both worlds in hip hop & R&B” and as one of the “greatest producers of all time.”
Next, in true New Jack Swing form, a medley of artists took the stage to salute the genre with the Guy banger, “I Like” performed by Ne-Yo and the Keith Sweat hit, “I Want Her” performed by T-Pain, all with the man himself, Teddy Riley on the keyboard. Kool Moe Dee took the stage, outfitted in his signature dark shades, setting it off with the New Jack Swing hit, “How You Like Me Now.”
