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- The Future
- - 153,317 plays
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Guy
Released 1990

Teddy's Jam 2
04:19
8,604 plays

Smile
04:17
8,334 plays

Wanna Get With U
04:47
7,984 plays

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- 1
- Her
- 03:53
- 6,678 plays

- 2
- Wanna Get With U
- 04:47
- 7,984 plays

- 3
- Do Me Right
- 04:23
- 6,804 plays

- 4
- Teddy's Jam 2
- 04:19
- 8,604 plays

- 5
- Let's Chill
- 05:23
- 43,199 plays

- 6
- Tease Me Tonite
- 05:09
- 19,728 plays

- 7
- D-O-G Me Out
- 04:23
- 4,779 plays

- 8
- Total Control
- 03:00
- 3,280 plays

- 9
- Gotta Be A Leader
- 04:46
- 3,722 plays

- 10
- The Future
- 04:43
- 3,855 plays

- 11
- Let's Stay Together
- 04:01
- 6,420 plays

- 12
- Where Did The Love Go
- 01:15
- 7,874 plays

- 12
- Long Gone
- 05:52
- 5,537 plays

- 14
- Yearning For Your Love
- 04:56
- 12,086 plays

- 15
- Smile
- 04:17
- 8,334 plays

- 16
- Wanna Get With U
- 07:58
- 4,433 plays

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album review

New jack swing, a hard-edged, high-tech blend of funk, R&B, and rap/hip-hop, has been milked for all it's worth and run into the ground by Guy's numerous imitators in the late '80s and early- to mid-'90s. But in the hands of its highly influential originators, Guy, it sounds fresh and inspired. Though not as strong as the debut album of 1988, The Future is one of the more appealing -- and certainly more authentic -- examples of "new jack swing." Lead by the ubiquitous producer/songwriter Teddy Riley, the trio brings a definite urgency to grinding, forceful funk like "Teddy's Jam 2" and "Her," and to such slow jams as "Do Me Right" and "Tease Me Tonight" (both of which recall the Gap Band à la "Outstanding"). Especially riveting is the all-rap number "Total Control," a brutally honest commentary on exploitation in the music business. It's important to absorb Guy's music and realize that it is proof, against the understandable complaints about the glut of faceless "new jack swing" artists saturating the market, that it wasn't always cheap and formulaic. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide