9 Things We Learned About Keith Sweat On The Breakfast Club

To many Hip-Hoppers the late 80’s to the late 90’s was the genre’s golden era, but what people tend to forget to mention is that R&B music was also hitting its stride. And Keith Sweat was smack-dab in the middle of it.

The man who wrote for all kinds of artists such as Ron Isley and the O’Jays stopped by The Breakfast Club and addressed his beggin’ singin’ style, the fourth member who was supposed to be a part of the R&B supergroup LSG (Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat & Johnny Gill), and his life before becoming a Harlem World renowned singer/song writer.

Here are the 9 Things We Learned About Keith Sweat on the Breakfast Club.

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1. The Stock Broker

Before he became a singer, Keith Sweat was holding down a 9 to 5 as a stock broker. And yes, he would sing while on the job.

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2. Single Life

The single “Don’t Stop Your Love” is the record that got him his first record deal and the rest became music history.

3. Hip-Hop-N-R&B

He purposely mixed Hip-Hop with the R&B sound because he wanted to create edger rhythm and blues music.

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4. Harlem To Atlanta

He left Harlem and moved to Atlanta because the cost of living was much lower. Ma$e should’ve went with that excuse. Just sayin’.

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5. Harlem Fam

His Harlem connects kept him safe from certain people messing with him.

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6. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg

While he’s known for having a “begging” style of singing, Keith doesn’t necessarily feel that he begs while singing. He kind of does though and it’s great.

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7. Gentleman That Never Tells

Even though Bobby Brown wrote a tell-all about his life and who he slept with, Keith Sweat couldn’t do that “especially when it comes to when a woman feels like she’s basically sharing herself with you and the things that y’all doing are intimately and privately for y’all two.”