Teddy Riley also known to the world as “The King of New Jack Swing has truly
made a name for himself. At the age of 15, he produced the underground
classic "Raps New Generation", by Classical II. His composition of one-hit
wonder Johnny Kemp's "Just Got Paid" became a very popular track reaching #1
on the billboard R&B charts in the spring of 1988. Keith Sweat’s Just Got
Paid was also produced by Teddy Riley. Along with other Sweat hits such as,
Make It Last Forever, released in November 1987 and "I Want Her" ,
"Something Just Ain't Right". He also produced tracks for hip hop artists
such as Kool Moe Dee and Heavy D. and The Boys on their debut album, Livin'
Large (1987) on Uptown/MCA Records.Riley's first major mainstream hit produced song was Bobby Brown’s "My
Prerogative" along with writing skills of Guy's Aaron Hall. Riley got the
idea of forming his own group after it was suggested to him that a younger
singer named Aaron Hall was looking to join a group. After meeting at a New
York mall, Riley and Hall became friends and formed what would be Guy in
1987. Complete with a third member – Timmy Gaitling- they recorded and
finished their self-titled debut in the summer 1988, which by the time of
Gatling's exit and Hall's younger brother Damian's entry. The album sold
over 3 million copies with hits like "Groove Me", "Teddy's Jam", "Piece of
My Love", "I Like" and "Spend the Night". The album had established the
group as a unique R&B musical force through out the end of the 1980s into
the 1990s.Teddy Riley has worked wit other legendary artists such as Aretha Franklin ,
Whitney Houston, Billy Ocean, Blondie, Boy George, David Peaston, Hi-Five,
James Ingram, Stephanie Mills, The Jackson's, and Wreckx-N-Effect (which
included his brother Markell Riley) on their first album Wrecks 'n' Effect,
which featured the hit songs "New Jack Swing", "Juicy" and "Club Head". He
remixed Jane Child's hit song "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", which peaked at #2
on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for three weeks in the spring of 1990.Guy appeared on the 1989 Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing soundtrack with
their song "My Fantasy" In 1990 Teddy produced hits such as ""Wanna Get
With U", "Let's Chill", "Do Me Right", "Her" and "D.O.G. Me Out". Guy
contributed a song to the soundtrack of Mario Van Peebles 1991 directorial
debut film New Jack City, which stared Wesley Snipes, Ice-T and Chris Rock.
Guy also appeared in the film as the New Year's Eve Band. Guy also
contributed to the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest soundtrack, with
the song "Land Of A Thousand Dances" Before the band Guy split up, Riley
moved his music operations to Virginia Beach, where he set up his Future
Recording Studio.Teddy worked on Michaels Jackson’s Dangerous and Invincible. Including the
hits "Remember the Time", "Jam" which featured Heavy D, "In the Closet", the
title song "Dangerous", "Heaven Can Wait", and "Whatever Happens" featuring
Carlos Santana. Riley also went on to contribute to the Juice soundtrack
which starred rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac. Riley's song "Is It Good To You"
performed with long time collaborator Tammy Lucas was a smash hit. His
fellow ex-Guy band mate Aaron Hall was also on the soundtrack his song
"Don't Be Afraid" was one of the big hits on the soundtrack. Even throughout
his reign as producer, Riley found time to form another band Blackstreet in
1992. The first song that Blackstreet released was "Baby Be Mine" which was
off the "CB4" soundtrack which starred Chris Rock. In 1994 Blackstreet
released their debut self-titled platinum selling album which featured the
hits "Booti Call" and "Before I Let Go". The follow-up album took the group
to national prominence with the release of their second effort, Another
Level, in 1996, which sold 4x platinum, it featured their biggest-selling
hit to date, "No Diggity". Currently Teddy Riley has been in the lab working
effortlessly on his Urban, eclectic newly founded project “Adida†The Bandâ€
and Teddy Riley “The Comeback
