Bryan Michael Cox on What It Means To Be a Producer
R&B and hip-hop producer Bryan Michael Cox explains what it means to be a producer, how this can be different from project to project, how a producer’s style and even their job evolves over time, and how the team you assemble can help decide whether your production succeeds or fails.
Bryan Michael Cox is a GRAMMY award winning American songwriter and record producer. He has co-written and co-produced hit singles including: Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You, Mariah Carey’s “Shake It Off” & “Don’t Forget About Us”; Monica’s “Still Standing” & “U Should’ve Known Better”; Jagged Edge’s “He Can’t Love You”, “Walked Outta Heaven”, “Let’s Get Married”, & “Where the Party At”; Danity Kane’s “Ride For You”; Toni Braxton’s “Just Be a Man About It”, “Trippin’ (That’s the Way Love Works)”; Janet Jackson’s “Nothing”; Marques Houston’s “Circle”; Ginuwine’s “Stingy” & “Last Chance” and Usher’s “U Got It Bad”, “Burn”, & “Confessions, Pt. 2”. Cox has been professionally producing since 1998, receiving his first formal credit on 1999’s “Get Gone” by the R&B Houston-based group Ideal. In September 2009, Bryan Michael Cox was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Concluding the first decade of the new millennium Cox was named by Billboard Magazine as one of the top 10 producers of the decade. “Be Without You” co-written and produced by Bryan Michael Cox and performed by Mary J Blige was also cited as the number one R&B song of the decade.
