Danny ChaiActually, Rich did pick Rick to be the producer of his next album before he died. Which is why he produced the Jesus Record. You don’t know the story? Rich’s vision was that his records be produced in a really collaborative fashion. So like with Brother’s Keeper, there was no single producer – everyone involved took part so the credits list them all (like 7 of them) as the producers.
Bad idea. Just, someone needs to take control or it’s chaos, and Brother’s Keeper was pretty bad. So for his next record, Rich chose one of the ones involved (Rick) to be the sole producer. Before he died.