Rich Harrison...classic or dud? search and destroy

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I'm pretty addicted to his productions at the moment. Any list of everything he's produced at all?

Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

If you just listen to "Crazy In Love" and "One Thing" then yeah he may sound like he just has "one trick" but the Amerie albums show a lot of production diversity. Unless "classy R&B with neat beats" is a "trick".

Also there's anomalies like "Can't Nobody" and "Soldier".

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he's working now with Christina Aguilera. I believe he's a Howard U music grad...

steve K, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100700345_pf.html

"It's co-writing with people that I would never be able to play with," Harrison says of his penchant for sampling. "You're not just sampling the instrument, you're sampling the arguments they had in the studio, you're sampling the temperature in the room, you're sampling the engineer's attitude, you're sampling the coke they snorted. Those are conditions that will never be re-created, and I get to use them for my records."

W i l l (common_person), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

That article was written by the lead singer of Q and Not U!

Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Special to The Washington Post

W i l l (common_person), Sunday, 9 October 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

He's been doing freelance writing for the Post for awhile--he was also a copy aide there.

Steve K (Steve K), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I feel we're like Timbaland and Aaliyah.

i want to believe this pretty badly, but eh. maybe i'm getting old. i like Touch a lot, though. and "soldier" as well.

geoff (gcannon), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"D.C. has to grow up a little more. There are so many talented people out here -- why am I the only one that broke through?" he asks. "There's never been an entertainment label with that kind of validation in D.C. It's a difficult task, but I think it's important, not only for the musical legacy but for the image of this city. D.C. could be so much more hip, so much more sexy."

It will be interesting to see what his new label can do.

Steve K (Steve K), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Can we appreciate him again plz? I mean :




goddamn..... that RichGirl song made me realize how much I miss his looped Meters breaks all over the radio.

ARE WE SOME FUCKING LADIES OR WHAT? (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link

said whatever i got to say already on rolling rnb

but okay, if we're fucking about

r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link

you guys will 4ever be known to me as those people that went loco over 'dat girl right there' btw.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link

;D

r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link

that's actually Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis lol

ARE WE SOME FUCKING LADIES OR WHAT? (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

yes dear.

i know i kinda bugged (as designed) when i first found 'he aint wit me' but, whilst my sympathy for harrison and the bluster & novelty of the track in these modern times abide, i'm not maaaaaad into it really; less so still after flicking thru those somehow subtler-seeming bangers of yore.

'didnt you know' might be one of my faves of the decade actually - 1st ever lupe fiasco appearance woo woo!

r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

The Rayne's "Didn't You Know" you mean? (yr links'n'embeds won't load for me at work)

Adore that one as well, totally amazing interplay between the groove and Yummy's vocal.

Tim F, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Going back through his production discography, so many bangers I hadn't heard. Wonder what he's been up to for the last few years.

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link

He worked with Tiffany Haddish in 2019, but yes not doing much

curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link


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