This just a small sample from the gawd, not to mention his influence and mentoring of another GOAT timbaland and his influence on the late and great static major

This an appreciation thread for a legend and has impacted hip hop and r&b in ways most of you won’t understand

Great thread

Facts

I know it Devinetly Swing 🍆 😂

I got love for op ngl

Diary of a mad band is crazy

That s*** could come out today and still be fresh.

Would probably shut the game down for a minute too

Dallas Austin most overlooked

smk did the drums on the first one. also have never seen that last pic before wow

The most under appreciated producer in the culture. Ride and Slide is my favorite beat, the synth solo on the outro 😱😱

What are some of his production credits?

I’ve always heard that smk or timbaland did the drums on the no more pain beat but devante swing did everything else. Wouldn’t surprise me because nothing else in his catalogue sounds like that

Been known

Man he’s done so much s***

All of Boyz II Men Cooleyhighharmony

So uh ah, please don’t go away, it’s so hard to say goodbye, end of the road

All of TLC crazysexycool

Red light special, creep, digging on you

All of Fan Mail : unpretty

I like it by sammy

There you go and like a pill by P!nk

They don’t care about us Michael Jackson

He broke Monica as an artist as well

Knocked up Chili from TLC as well... niggas an unspoken GOAT.

He kinda helped put ATL on the map along with JD. before they got involved ATL wasn’t a hub for talent like that.

What’s crazy is he was a child prodigy like Ryan Leslie so he produced Boyz II Men most classic s*** by the time he was like 17 or some s***..

DJ Vlad interviews him... classic story on classic story. Check it

Devante was so cool

Didn’t know the dude did all that.

Legendary forreal

Fun fact Timbaland actually produced No More Pain and Devante took credit

Was about to post this

But yeah he a goat

when i read that in his book i was in shambles

Beat had timbo written all over it tbh. Honestly wasn't that surprising to me.