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Artist........: Ryan Leslie
Album.........: Used To Be
Label.........: Virgin Rec.
Quality.......: VBRkbps 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Encoder.......: lame 3.97 V2
Catalog.......: n/a
Genre.........: R&B
Tracks........: 18
Size..........: 82,2 MB
Source........: CDDA
Playtime......: 69:11 min
▄█▀ ■ ░░ Rip Date......: Aug-11-2007
▐█▌▄▓▓▄ ▄ Street Date...: 000-00-0000
▀█▄▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ URL...........: http://www.myspace.com/ryanleslie
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01 the way that you move girl 03:35
feat. nas
02 elektro 03:37
03 used to be feat. fabolous 04:08
04 just right feat. snoop dogg 04:45
05 rock u 03:42
06 please please please 04:30
07 golden days 03:01
08 you think you know feat. latif 03:41
09 back to the love 04:00
10 in love with you 04:39
11 it's love ( that i feel ) 03:22
12 ready feat. ivko & talib kweli 04:12
13 promise not to call 03:36
14 the one 03:28
15 you need somebody 04:08
16 my woman feat. loon 03:16
17 ven aqui feat. corey williams 03:58
18 taste for your love 03:33
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░ █ ▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ █
█ Like most aspiring producer/songwriter/singers, █
█ Ryan Leslie started out making his own records as █
█ a teen because he couldn't afford to pay for █
█ studio time or producers when he wanted to record █
█ his demo. Counting self-contained █
█ producer/artists like Stevie Wonder and Prince as █
█ his heroes, it's been a long ride from being a █
█ 19-year-old senior in college who had no music █
█ contacts - to overseeing studio sessions with the █
█ likes of Diddy, Usher, Britney Spears, and many █
█ other of today's top stars. █
█ █
█ The road was not easy, as anyone who has tried to █
█ make it in music would understand. When he █
█ graduated from Harvard in 1998, Ryan started out █
█ selling beats for $200 to anyone who would buy - █
█ a questionable career move for an ivy-league █
█ graduate. He stayed in the Boston area for a █
█ while, taking on a community service job to make █
█ ends meet, and spending his nights in the █
█ recording studio. Eventually, in the summer of █
█ 2000, he linked with a young artist named Corey █
█ "Latif" Williams, and he produced a song that won █
█ a contest sponsored by Teen People magazine, █
█ earning them a performance at the famed Apollo █
█ theatre in Harlem. █
█ █
█ A few months later, in 2001, the two had █
█ generated enough buzz as a producer/artist duo to █
█ score Latif a record deal with Motown. Though █
█ initial excitement in the project was strong, the █
█ album they made together in thirty days took two █
█ years to get released. In the meantime, Ryan █
█ returned to a suburb of Boston and began to █
█ experiment with making his own records again. █
█ █
█ Times were tough, the advance money from his work █
█ on Latif's album ran out, and in late 2002, after █
█ nearly a year grinding with little to no money █
█ coming in, Ryan was forced to move back in with █
█ his parents, who were living in Phoenix. Though █
█ he was devastated, he remained determined, and █
█ after a long talk, his father gave Ryan a glimmer █
█ of hope, offering to max out the family's credit █
█ cards to buy the keyboards and recording software █
█ needed to create a modest project studio. Moved █
█ by this vote of confidence in his potential, Ryan █
█ vowed that he would do whatever it took to repay █
█ the nearly $15,000 worth of equipment - even if █
█ it meant going to law school and getting a job █
█ more suited to his academic pedigree. █
█ █
█ For the next five months, Ryan locked himself in █
█ a room, eating infrequently and sleeping even █
█ less, spending countless hours formulating a █
█ distinct sound that would prove useful when in █
█ the spring of 2003, his music career took an █
█ unexpected turn. Encouraged by his long-time █
█ music lawyer and advisor, Ed Woods, Ryan got on a █
█ plane to New York to take a 30-day contract as a █
█ music production intern for former Bad Boy Hitman █
█ Younglord. One week into his internship, a record █
█ they created together became "Keep Giving Your █
█ Love To Me", a song performed by BeyoncΘ for the █
█ Bad Boys II movie soundtrack. That record led to █
█ a meeting with Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was █
█ supervising the project. █
█ █
█ Honored by the opportunity, Ryan played a few of █
█ the instrumentals he had created while in Phoenix █
█ for Diddy, and there was one in particular that █
█ caught the Bad Boy Records CEO's attention. █
█ Though it was a simple track, consisting mostly █
█ of a conga loop and a guitar riff, the magic in █
█ the music emerged when Ryan played a song he had █
█ written and recorded to the track, called "Hot 2 █
█ Nite". Thoroughly impressed, Diddy offered Ryan a █
█ producer management contract on the spot, and the █
█ song became the first single for New Edition's █
█ Bad Boy album. █
█ █
█ Diddy immediately put Ryan on every project that █
█ came across his blackberry, and Ryan produced a █
█ string of records, including Loon's 2003 summer █
█ hit "Down For Me". He shared his unique talent █
█ with everyone from Britney Spears, B5, Cheri █
█ Dennis, Danity Kane, and many other Diddy-helmed █
█ projects. In six months, he had collected enough █
█ money from advances to be able to repay his █
█ father, and after sending a check home, he █
█ requested that his equipment be shipped to New █
█ York, where he set up a project studio in a █
█ one-bedroom apartment in Harlem. █
█ █
█ Simultaneously during that time, Ryan inked a █
█ publishing deal with Tommy Mottola's Aspen Songs, █
█ cementing his relationship with two of the most █
█ legendary and notorious executives in the music █
█ industry. Under the mentorship of Diddy and █
█ Mottola, Ryan began to absorb the mannerisms of a █
█ savvy entrepreneurial music executive. █
█ █
█ Soon the word began to spread of his unorthodox █
█ approach to record-making (eschewing programming █
█ and beat machines for real-time playing of █
█ instruments and on-the-fly song writing), and █
█ people began reaching out to Ryan for his █
█ "NextSelection" sound. He produced singles for █
█ Donell Jones ("Better Start Talking"), Cheri █
█ Dennis ("I Love U"), and dancehall legends Tanto █
█ Metro & Devonte ("News For You"). He also signed █
█ a recording contract as an artist with Universal █
█ through Mottola's imprint. Though he recorded an █
█ album for Universal in 2004 between projects for █
█ other artists, his production schedule kept him █
█ from paying any real attention to promoting a █
█ single. █
█ █
█ It was when Usher called on him to produce some █
█ records for his new label, US Records, that Ryan, █
█ being the same age as Usher, became inspired to █
█ champion his NextSelection brand by developing an █
█ artist of his own. After writing and producing █
█ the title track "Private" for Usher's act One █
█ Chance's debut album, Ryan returned to New York █
█ and met a strikingly beautiful young artist named █
█ Cassie with a distinct vocal texture and a unique █
█ point of view. With the help of some coaxing by █
█ her mother, he convinced Cassie to record a song █
█ with him. Encouraged again by his attorney, Ed █
█ Woods, he played the record for Mottola, who █
█ immediately signed Ryan's young protΘgΘ to a █
█ management contract, urging the two to continue █
█ the recording process. █
█ █
█ The next record he wrote and produced for her, a █
█ song called "Me & U", would prove to be a █
█ defining work in Ryan's career - earning him his █
█ first number one hit, and the opportunity to work █
█ as an executive producer alongside Diddy, who █
█ outbid 2 other labels to partner with him on █
█ Cassie's project. "Me & U" went on to be the █
█ biggest record at radio in the history of █
█ Atlantic Records (Bad Boy's distributor), and █
█ Ryan's dream to introduce the world to the █
█ NextSelection brand was achieved. █
█ █
█ The success of Cassie's project also proved to be █
█ definitive in a different way for Ryan, who had █
█ partnered with a young on-line media entrepreneur █
█ named Rasheed Richmond to wage a ground-breaking █
█ internet marketing campaign using non-traditional █
█ media to raise awareness about Cassie, █
█ NextSelection, and the infectious song he had █
█ written for her. Thanks to their joint efforts, █
█ she became the first major new artist to break █
█ from social networking phenomenon MySpace.com, █
█ prompting so many internet searches that Yahoo █
█ crowned her the first "Internet diva". █
█ █
█ Fueled by this momentum, Ryan's next moves will █
█ be made with laser focus on brand development and █
█ will be watched intently by an evolving music █
█ industry. He is building a management company, █
█ led by Sean Collins, a long-time friend and early █
█ supporter who invested in him during the early █
█ stages of his career, to develop and nurture █
█ budding production talent. He is expanding his █
█ on-line media properties with Rasheed Richmond to █
█ create a network of sites dedicated to █
█ entertainment content developed by NextSelection. █
█ He is assembling a roster of acts that will █
█ embody the characteristics of his signature 4 D's █
█ - drive, desire, discipline and dedication. █
█ █
█ Most importantly, amongst all of his endeavors, █
█ he's campaigning as Ryan Leslie - the artist. █
█ With a goal to fill arenas around the world where █
█ he has already been performing for small crowds █
█ of die-hard NextSelection fans, he is pursuing █
█ the dream that started his foray into music in █
█ the first place: being an entertainer. His live █
█ show is explosive, channeling of the energy of a █
█ young James Brown mixed with the swagger of a █
█ modern day Marvin Gaye. The soundtrack to the █
█ Ryan Leslie experience is just as engaging. █
█ Fusing thick analogue synths, heavy drums and █
█ lush vocal harmonies, his double album, █
█ consisting of his best unreleased gems like "The █
█ Way That U Move", "Just Right" and "Used 2 Be", █
█ plus an entirely fresh crop of newly-inspired █
█ recordings, will be a collection of all the songs █
█ he wouldn't sell to anyone else, songs that he █
█ really loves, stories told in a way only he can █
█ tell them. █
█ █
█ A look at Ryan's daily schedule, which usually █
█ starts on-line at 5am and continues (with █
█ meetings, calls, rehearsals and studio sessions) █
█ into the wee hours of the following morning, █
█ suggests that he may have too much on his plate █
█ to lead the life of an ordinary twenty-something █
█ year old. Thankfully, his approach to life is, █
█ arguably, extraordinary. █
█ █
█ █
█ He Is The Future Of Quality R&B Music █
█ █
█ Enjoy this one █
█ █
█ R6 Baby!!! █
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