4. "If that was the case, wouldn't they have flamed out after a year or two?" In response to In response to 3
If, as you suggest, there were merely Teddy Riley derivatives, then they wouldn't have had the run they did.
Sorry Maxx, but you can't convince me.
No question they studied at the foot of Teddy and applied a lot of his stuff into their own work, but they put their own spin on a lot of it, and their creativity is virtually unmatched during this time.
___________________________ OL' DIRTY BASTARD on himself: "I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.