First post!!!
The Ray-Ban and tophat game is real serious!!
As great as Dr.Dre and them are, and as much as I'll talk about them in later posts, it's only fitting for my first blog post that we look instead at two producers who most people have never heard of, but who changed the game for everyone: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. If you've ever wondered how Janet Jackson became such a cultural icon in the 80's and early 90's, they are your answer. And if you've ever wondered who aside from Teddy Riley was instrumental in creating the sound of late 80's Pop/R&B, which gave birth to the careers of Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and many others, it's them. On top of it all they made rocking Ray Bans and 2 piece suits to the studio hot before your favorite producer ever touched a keyboard.
Like all great producers past and present, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis created a new sound from tools everyone had but hadn't used right. They blended samples with industrial sound effects, triplet hi hats with new jack swing, and had the dopest vocal production in the 80's, period.
If you've never listened to Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation', do yourself a favor and peep the links below. They'll take you straight back to '88 when George Bush was prez, the Giants won the Super Bowl, and the stock market was tanking. Some things don't change, and classic music never does.
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