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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.”

And as if that wasn’t enough, Riley took the stage giving the crowd what they had been waiting for, rocking the house with the Blackstreet hit “No Diggity” and the all-time crowd-pleaser, “Rump Shaker.”"

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Rolling Stone also has a more detailed breakdown revealing Doug E Fresh and Aaron Hall also performed:

“As Diddy took the stage, the crowd began to chant “Bad Boy” so loudly, it felt contrived, but the label impresario was clearly honored to introduce the Teddy Riley New Jack Swing tribute. “Teddy let you know how it felt to be from Harlem. His swagger was impeccable. He’s the reason I started wearing shades,” Diddy said. Doug E. Fresh warmed up the set before T-Pain took over with Guy’s 1987 number-one hit “I Want Her.” In a three-piece suit, Kool Moe Dee kept the crowd in ’87, delivering his classic “How Ya Like Me Now” as if twenty years haven’t passed. Then Ne-Yo and Keyshia Cole went head to head with a sexy duet of Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time,” the best song off of 1992’s Dangerous. To top it off, Teddy Riley and Aaron Hall performed renditions of “No Diggity” and “Rumpshaker.””

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Shit.