Babyface and LA Reid vs Teddy Riley vs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis... who made the best music?

[mr x]

I can't choose...but if i had to it would be that person not even close.

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[Kool]

This trifecta of 80s/90s BLACKEXCELLENCE music, tho

...they don't make GOATNESS like that anymore

That's my childhood

So true.... r&b music of today doesn't even close to the music posted in this thread.

 

[Kool]

Well... it looks like Jam and Lewis are the winners with 20 votes...

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Big Boss]

I'll vote for anybody except Teddy Riley for one reason:

He's largely responsible for the one song I hated THE MOST in the 90s: No Diggity.

To this day I hate that awful corny song. It's the worst.

 

[Verbal Kint]

I'ma go JJ/TL simply cause I got personal history with Flyte Tyme. But Boyz 2 Men's II album is what got me hooked on R&B as a youngn and that was all JJ/TL.

 

[Verbal Kint]

This ends the argument rightchea

 

[R-Typ3]

I'ma go JJ/TL simply cause I got personal history with Flyte Tyme. But Boyz 2 Men's II album is what got me hooked on R&B as a youngn and that was all JJ/TL.

Didn't know Jimmy and Terry wrote Bended Knee and to this day it's still one of my favorites from that album...That key change toward the end...I'll never walk a gain..Until u come back to mee...

 

[Self_Born7]

 

[Big Boss]

wow, looked up Jam and Lewis production list. Cot damn

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis production discography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I voted for Babyface but Teddy Riley is a god.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Teddy all day.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Babyface still putting work in, though.

Co-wrote the closing track on Bruno Mars's latest album.

What the other guys are up to?

 

[Lefty Gunz]

Teddy Riley

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

On paper, it seems more closer than it is between L.A. and Babyface vs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Teddy is good, but he more of a groove maker than an overall versatile songwriter and composer.

L.A. and Babyface get the 1992 soundtrack nod because Boomerang simply blows away Mo' Money.

However, in a battle of the bands, The Time (Jimmy/Terry) demolishes The Deele (L.A./Babyface).

Jimmy and Terry can write sensitive material like Babyface. "Tender Love" is a prime example. But L.A.
and Babyface cannot groove and funk like Jimmy and Terry.

J and T by a wide margin.