Edge Magazine: Teddy Riley and Open Labs
Producer's Edge Magazine -- Writing the intro for an interview is usually pretty easy. I pick one of their favorite accomplishments and I roll with that. The problem with Teddy Riley is figuring out how to categorize him: musician or producer or artist? Each aspect of his dynamic personality contributes in such a way that there is no easy way to separate the different roles he played over the years. Guy, Blackstreet and we might have to go in about the whole New Jack Swing legacy. Let's get to it ...
“… If you want to get stuck in the box without any plug-ins, you are limited because when I come next to you with my car, which I call the MiKo or the NeKo, and I got 120 plug-ins, and I can pull up at least 50 of them, which I don’t need, but I can pull them up. When I shift into high gear you ain’t with me – I am gone. …”
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