Hip Hop's Top 3 Producers Of All Time

In most realms of the entertainment industry asong they sell. In most cases the producer is even
producer's main job is to make sure the finish productmore vital to the success of a song than the artist
is more or less polished and ready for the mass media.who is recording the song. Below is a list of the top 5
The music industry at a certain time was no different.producers in hip hop.
Recently, the role of the producer has become a lotTeddy Riley - When you single handedly create a new
larger and in some regards has started to includesound you have to be considered one of the all time
some of the duties that were primarily relegated togreatest. In the late 80s Teddy Riley created a sound
other notable positions. Twenty years ago when anknown as the "New Jack Swing" which had artist lining
artist was about to start a recording project theyup to hire him for his services. He was responsible for
would hire a producer who would then be in charge ofcreating hit songs for Bobby Brown, Guy and Black
booking studio time and finding the right songs andStreet. Teddy Riley is universally regarded as the first
back up singers to fit this artist style. Their final dutysuper producer.
was to pick which of the finished songs should makeJimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - This duo is also
the artist's album. Skip forward to present day hip hopknown for a unique sound that they created in the
and you'll see that a producer in most cases is not onlyearly 80s! Creating hits for notable artists such as
the song writer but in a lot of cases the recordingJanet Jackson, New Edition and Whitney Houston to
engineer as well. They write and produce the songname a few. The unique sound they developed while
from its inception to its final cut. Hip Hop has coined thegrowing up along side Prince in Minneapolis Minnesota
term "super producer" and any producer who makes itis credited for many of the hits in the 80s and 90s.
to this elite level makes no less then $50,000 for each