QDT is a production supergroup, featuring

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and

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''QDT'' stands for Quik-Dogg-Teddy.Snoop Dogg , Billboard
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History

Snoop Dogg used the production group extensively on his album ''

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''. Bumping into Teddy Riley at the VH1's 2007 ''Hip-Hop Honors'', Snoop says he felt that

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was telling him that he "needed to work with this guy.".Snoop Dogg switches gears for gentler Seduction , Reuters
/ref> DJ Quik, explains that the group wants to help artists get their music heard: "Snoop started this company called QDT (Quik-Dogg-Teddy). We produce records and write songs for other cats that don't have access to great producers or songwriters," Quik told

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. "We are trying to be a medium between them and the record company. Teddy has been writing for the

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and other people at

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. Snoop has been writing for his groups, and I've been storing tracks for them when it's time to go full-fledged with it."

References

External links

* Allmusic bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Qdt Snoop Dogg American hip hop groups Record production teams Musicians from California Living people Year of birth missing (living people)