Todd Brown professionally known as Todd-1 is ready to take on the new millennium.  Respected as one of the hip hop pioneers for television his career successes range from MTV, BET, ABC, Source All Access to highly rated shows such as Interscope Presents the next episode, Brown has showed the entertainment world that his early success was no flash in the pan.   The multi-talented producer has paid his dues and the payoff is set for the year 2006. The Brooklyn native showed early promise during his school years and definitely stood out amongst the crowd. He lists early rap stars KRS-One and LL Cool J as major musical influences and by age 16, he had begun to rap professionally. But although he desired a music career, Todd went off to college.

While studying Cable and Corporate Communications, Todd got his first taste of Television production. He took everything from `Speech,' `Remote TV Production' to `Physics of Music'. One day a fellow student came into class wearing a suit and told him about an internship interview. He gave him the phone number and his call led to an internship with a growing company called MTV. 

With humble beginnings as an Intern, Todd climbed the ladder at MTV to eventually become Associate Producer, Todd knew that he found his niche. He quickly bonded with Ted Demme, who took him on as his apprentice. During this time, the music world was revving its engines and the rise of prominent hip-hop and R&B groups were beginning to take over the charts. Todd knew that these artists needed an outlet on MTV, so he conceived a new show for the channel.  The show, MTV's ‘Fade to Black' (which would later spawn the hit show ‘MTV Jams') achieved strong ratings with Todd himself as the offbeat host.  Having worked with such premiere artists as Babyface, Janet Jackson, Shaquille O'Neal, TLC and Queen Latifah, it was a short time before he received the call to work at BET. Although he spent less than a year there, BET proved to be another stepping stone for the passionate Todd-1.

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