Is BabyFace The Greatest R&B Song Writer Ever?!

[sharkbait28]

Ok… I knew this brother wrote a lot of goddamn hits but I didn’t know he wrote damn near the entire R&B BBQ playlist lmao… Midnight Star’s “Slow Jam” and The Whisper’s “Rock Steady” among so many others? Like damn, Im a music head and I knew he wrote many of these but I was legit surprised by a few. Dude is apparently still putting on a good show too!!

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Main articles: Babyface discography and List of songs written by Babyface
Studio albums

• Lovers (1986)
• Tender Lover (1989)
• For the Cool in You (1993)
• The Day (1996)
• Face2Face (2001)
• Grown & Sexy (2005)
• Playlist (2007)
• Return of the Tender Lover (2015)

Collaboration albums

• Power and Love with Manchild (1977)
• Feel the Phuff with Manchild (1978)
• Street Beat with The Deele (1983)
• Material Thangz with The Deele (1985)
• Eyes of a Stranger with The Deele (1987)
• Love, Marriage & Divorce with Toni Braxton (2014)

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

This is an alphabetical list of the songs known to have been written or co-written by Babyface.

List of songs written by Babyface - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Babyface (musician) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Babyface - Samples, Covers and Remixes

Discover all Babyface's samples, covers and remixes.

www.whosampled.com

 

[sharkbait28]

Thanks @Helico-pterFunk , always appreciate you bro

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Thanks @Helico-pterFunk , always appreciate you bro

Thanks for your music threads, SB.

 

[Rythm]

Babyface, La Reid, and Daryl Simmons, hell of a team

 

[sharkbait28]

Thanks for your music threads, SB.

Thanks my G!

Babyface, La Reid, and Daryl Simmons, hell of a team

“100!” emoji lol.

 

[mrdiego2020]

1 of the greatest song writers yes but not the greatest ever..

 

[Nzinga]

American songwriter you mean? Which in itself is not saying very much.

 

[Mr. Met]

Better than Smokey?

 

[Nzinga]

No American musican can or has ever been able achieve such
perfection. Gene Gene has been doing this for more than 40
years. In your land of the blind, maybe all the characters you
are mentioning count- not in mine

 

[dugington]

Better than Smokey?

Came here to say exactly that.

Babyface a bad man, but Smokey's R&B writing ruled the planet with that Motown sound.

 

[godofwine]

Man, dude can pull at your heartstrings

 

[Coldchi]

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis come close.....but Face that nigga

 

[MemphisNigga]

Over Smokey Robinson? Over Gamble & Huff?

 

[Nzinga]

Emeneya Mubiala is better than all of your musicians

 

[REDLINE]

I’m not sure who the best is or if there’s one best, but Prince is up there too.

 

[Nzinga]

Reddy Amisi is better than all of your people

 

[Nzinga]

Wazekwa is better, he has been doing it for 30 years, maybe longer if it
is true, as he claims, that he was writing for others before becoming a
musician himself.

 

[REDLINE]

One of my favorite songs of his.



And live

 

[Nzinga]

Even the young ones walk on your heros..

 

[g0nbad real bad]

I do believe he has Smokey beat. Face wrote bangers for a good 20 years straight.

 

[Nzinga]

I am sorry, but this is not a contest.

 

[witmoe]

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis come close.....but Face that nigga

agreed !

 

[playahaitian]

1 of the greatest song writers yes but not the greatest ever..

^^^^^

 

[The Plutonian]

Ok… I knew this brother wrote a lot of goddamn hits but I didn’t know he wrote damn near the entire R&B BBQ playlist lmao… Midnight Star’s “Slow Jam” and The Whisper’s “Rock Steady” among so many others? Like damn, Im a music head and I knew he wrote many of these but I was legit surprised by a few. Dude is apparently still putting on a good show too!!

Dunno if he is but he’s definitely one of the dumbest. Marry a hoodrat with no prenup we all know how that turned out huh Tracey? Edmonds

 

[REDLINE]

No American musican can or has ever been able achieve such
perfection. Gene Gene has been doing this for more than 40
years. In your land of the blind, maybe all the characters you
are mentioning count- not in mine

Emeneya Mubiala is better than all of your musicians

Reddy Amisi is better than all of your people

Wazekwa is better, he has been doing it for 30 years, maybe longer if it
is true, as he claims, that he was writing for others before becoming a
musician himself.

 

[theteacher]

Better than Kellz?​

 

[sharkbait28]

1 of the greatest song writers yes but not the greatest ever..

Who you got in this R&B shit?

Came here to say exactly that.

Babyface a bad man, but Smokey's R&B writing ruled the planet with that Motown sound.

Over Smokey Robinson? Over Gamble & Huff?

Respect to another legend! I guess I should’ve clarified the era better. I was thinking more contemporary.

I do believe he has Smokey beat. Face wrote bangers for a good 20 years straight.

I mean, 80s through the 90s and early 2000s

Crazy



There were songs in that medley I couldn’t believe he wrote, shit is wild. He’s too powerful lol.

Lmao, the funny shit is I fux with African music but dude’s approach is so off-putting. Calm down @Nzinga

 

[sharkbait28]

Better than Kellz?​

Easily, and I think Kellz’s pedo ass is a musical genius

 

[Gazoo]

No

 

[Joe Money]

Ok… I knew this brother wrote a lot of goddamn hits but I didn’t know he wrote damn near the entire R&B BBQ playlist lmao… Midnight Star’s “Slow Jam” and The Whisper’s “Rock Steady” among so many others? Like damn, Im a music head and I knew he wrote many of these but I was legit surprised by a few. Dude is apparently still putting on a good show too!!

And these are just the songs for men! The catalog for women is ridiculous as well. Hell, that "Waiting to Exhale" soundtrack by itself is a classic.

I’m not sure who the best is or if there’s one best, but Prince is up there too.

I don't even think Prince's catalog is this deep with songs he wrote for other artists. But a lot of his can't be classified as R&B.

 

[jerrynuevo]

Face is a prolific writer and should be in everyone's top 10...best tho? Nah. Did we just forget about the late Andrea Martin?

 

[PsiBorg]

Babyface! Are you joking?

Do you understand what Smokey, Holland Dozier and Holland, and Ashford & Simpson have done?