Troy Taylor Reflects on His Career in R&B, Discovering Trey Songz, Music Industry Trends, & More

We have a 🐐 in the house!!!! On this week’s episode we have Singer / Songwriter/ multi-Platinum selling/ Three time Grammy Award-winning producer, Troy Taylor. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Troy reflects on his start in music pursuing a solo career to pivoting to songwriting/production for the likes of Boys II Men, Color Me Badd, The Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Tyrese, Trey Songz, and so many more!!!

Troy has wealth of R&B music knowledge and takes us through the journey of discovering and building Trey Songz to a multi platinum selling artist. You don’t want to miss this one!!!

Troy Taylor Timestamps:

intro: 00:00 - 2:07

Shades “Tell Me (I’ll Be Around)” vs LL Cool J “Loungin”’ 2:37- 5:32

How did you get started in R&B? 5:32 - 14:00

Mixing Engineers 14:00 - 16:58

Working with Boys II Men 16:58 - 18:50

Music Placement with “Color Me Bad” 18:50 - 23:39

Working with various artists: 23:39 - 27:09

What happened to groups? 27:13 - 29:00

Working with THEY - 29:00 - 33:00

Social Media algorithms: 33:00 - 35:40

Recording production in the Studio: 35:40 - 38:45

AD 38:45-39:45 Sneaker House

Respect the Pen Game: Tyrese “Sweet Lady”: 39:45 - 45:06

Meeting Trey Songz: 45:06 - 48:00

Teaching parts of a song: 48:00 - 50:00

Building with Trey Songz: 50:00 - 56:54

Trey Songz: 56:54 - 61:00

Trey Songz Working with Drake: 61:00 - 62:15

“Ready”: 62:15 - 63:55

Deep Dive: Trey Songz “Neighbors Know My Name”: 63:55 - 66:40

Trey Songz “Gotta Go”: 66:40 - 68:03

Neighbors: 66:40 - 69:30

Five artists for a Festival: 69:30 - 72:30

Mayor of R&B (Making Money): 72:30 - 76:13 

Streaming: 76:13 -79:00

Music Strike: 79:00 - 81:54

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