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'The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee' is joined by hit music producer, Teddy Riley. Teddy discusses his memoir, the backlash for working with R. Kelly, stories of working with Michael Jackson, his relationship with former group Guy, and more.
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00:00Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee on the People's Station, V103, the ATL's number
00:04one for hip-hop, R&B, and throwbacks, and Jazzy, we have a legend, we do have a legend,
00:10we have an icon, the man, the myth, the legend, Teddy Riley's here, what up, Ted?
00:17What up, Ted?
00:18How are you, sir?
00:19I'm great, man, I can't complain.
00:21Good to see you.
00:22Likewise, likewise.
00:23Always good to see you, a matter of fact.
00:25This is my first time meeting you, so I'm in the presence of greatness right here, so
00:29I'm just going to...
00:29It's a pleasure to meet you.
00:30Absolutely.
00:31Amen.
00:32Teddy Riley's here, remember the times, a memoir.
00:35Why now?
00:37I waited 12 years, 12 years plus, and I just said, you know what, because I'm on spiritual
00:43timing, you know, so I said, it's time, because this is my 40th year in the business.
00:48Wow.
00:4940 years.
00:49And I'll be 60 this year, so I just said, you know what, this could be a whole celebration
00:53in the whole year.
00:55I like it.
00:56For people who have not known yet to get the book, it's called Remember the Times of
01:01Memoir, it reflects on your early life and your early career and ins and outs and ups
01:07and downs.
01:08What will most people gather from reading this book?
01:12The roadmap to success.
01:16And how you say long-lasting career.
01:20Just don't follow the bad parts.
01:22There's always a good and a bad part.
01:25But yeah, don't follow the bad, just follow the good, and it will definitely help you.
01:31So do you talk about rap's new generation?
01:34Because before I knew you, I knew you.
01:37Okay.
01:38And what does that mean?
01:39That's a song.
01:40That's a song.
01:41But?
01:42Like, if I'm not, is it the first hip-hop song?
01:46Yeah.
01:46In fact, it was my first hip-hop song.
01:48In fact, it was my first hip-hop song.
01:49And I remember hearing it on the radio all the time when I was a young tigger, and then
01:53I learned later that he had made the song before I knew he was Teddy Riley.
01:57So that's like, that's part of my, you know what I'm saying?
02:01That's so hot.
02:02Yeah.
02:02Like, that's, your rhymes are miscellaneous.
02:05You know what I'm saying?
02:05Yeah, yeah.
02:06It's so crazy.
02:07I just talked to Bond, and he's still around.
02:10I'm trying to get him to come and join us with the New Jack Swing tour.
02:15Okay.
02:16So hopefully he'll be able to come and join us.
02:19So just for reference, Jazzy, we're talking about 1987.
02:23Yeah, I know.
02:23You told me about that, and I said, oh, really?
02:26So you got to tell me a little bit more about that era.
02:29I think it's earlier than that.
02:30It was earlier than that?
02:3384, 83, 84.
02:35Really?
02:3584, yeah.
02:37Yeah.
02:38That's crazy.
02:38I was in Rooftop.
02:40I was, we started Rooftop Records.
02:45Okay.
02:45And we were working on Kumo D at the same time.
02:47Okay.
02:49Kids at Work, all the, we were working on everybody.
02:53When you think about that time.
02:54And I did B-Fats.
02:55Okay, Woppin'.
02:56The Wopp Dance.
02:58And who else?
02:59Spoonie G.
03:00Okay.
03:02Wop Bass.
03:03Absolutely.
03:05All that was around that same time.
03:07So when you look back at that time, and those records, and what you were doing then to fast forward
03:13to now, what do you see?
03:17Growth.
03:18Okay.
03:19Lots of growth.
03:21Okay.
03:21But, you know, if I had to do it all over again, you know, I would, because those were the
03:28learning, you know, curves and everything that I learned to get here.
03:33You know, going, getting to Michael Jackson was college.
03:37You know, so, all that stuff early back then was the elementary and then high school with Dougie Fresh.
03:44So, yeah.
03:46What was most pivotal point in the learning curve?
03:52Having the instruments I didn't have.
03:56I couldn't afford, you know, the drum machines and all that stuff.
03:59So I may do what I had.
04:02You know, before drum machines, I was putting the microphone in toilet tissue and doing the beatbox through the little
04:09hole, you know, seriously.
04:11No doubt.
04:12And doing that in the bathroom to get the ambience, you know, living in the projects, you just made whatever
04:19work.
04:20You made do with what you had.
04:21Yeah, I made it do.
04:22So I came in the wrecks and effects time zone when I first learned about you, you know, Teddy.
04:29But also, you know, the other hits from, you know, Goodbye, Love and all these different things.
04:33So just, you know, reading a book and a memoir, I'm like, okay, this is history in the making for
04:39sure.
04:39Yeah, I mean, I've gotten so many people who hit me back and said, man, I didn't know this about
04:45you.
04:47So I just know that people are getting the real for me and I'm finally getting to tell my story,
04:54my truth.
04:55Which part are most people most surprised about or they didn't know about you?
05:00Almost all of it.
05:02All they knew was Guy Rex and the Facts and Paul.
05:05Guy Rex and the Facts, Boy George, who else was like crazy for me.
05:16Working with Zan and working with just Guy, period.
05:22That was just in and out, in and out, in and out.
05:24I just said, man, I'm just tired of the inconsistency.
05:27So that's why I put together Guy 2.0 to give the people consistency and give them the record.
05:38So explain exactly for people who are unaware what Guy 2.0 is.
05:44It's a mesh of Guy in Blackstreet with the Wu-Tang Clan of Singers.
05:53The Wu-Tang Clan of Singers.
05:56I like it.
05:58That's how you describe it.
05:59Who is in the Wu-Tang Clan of Singers?
06:01All right.
06:02We have Atlanta.
06:04Oh, he's right there.
06:06Ray Lavender.
06:07He's one of them.
06:08What up, Ray?
06:09Then LJ from the group Profile.
06:11Oh, yeah.
06:12Sound like he's my Frankie Beverly meets Dave Hollister.
06:16Okay.
06:16He's my Kelly meets Ray Lavender.
06:18Okay.
06:19And then I have my Charlie Wilson meets Aaron Hall meets Stevie Wonder.
06:24Nice.
06:24Nice.
06:25And then y'all probably, you've been to one of my shows.
06:28Absolutely.
06:28Jay Styles.
06:29You know, he's with us.
06:31He's like the Mark Middleton.
06:32He's the high note.
06:34And, you know, we're now on our 11th show.
06:38So, yeah.
06:39What's the reception been like?
06:40Oh, amazing.
06:41How about People Ain't Leaving the Floor?
06:44That's because you made all them good songs, bro.
06:46Yeah.
06:47We're playing all the hits back to back to back to back.
06:49I can't wait to come here.
06:51Absolutely.
06:51I think we're going to be here at Wolf Creek.
06:54Okay.
06:54What?
06:55Again.
06:56This summer.
06:58Right?
06:59It's supposed to be, yeah.
07:00This summer.
07:00Yeah.
07:01We'll get the exact date.
07:02We've been getting calls and I'm just saying, do y'all really want this?
07:06He's like, yeah.
07:06Yes.
07:06People want to see it.
07:08So, everybody's curious of, and I didn't put it in the book.
07:13I just, you know, I put it online and everybody was like, shoot me.
07:18Pow, pow, pow.
07:19I said, y'all just got to hear it.
07:21Okay.
07:22And now they're hearing it.
07:23People are like, y'all want to see God 2.0.
07:28Why not just God?
07:30I don't want to do God because God is God.
07:33Got it.
07:34And I'm not trying to, you know, God is a signature.
07:40Okay.
07:41All I'm doing is taking that signature to the next level.
07:44Okay.
07:45Because we're not there.
07:47If we was to put God on stage today, it would not sound the same.
07:52Why would you say that?
07:53The music would.
07:54Okay.
07:55Oh.
07:55I would.
07:57That's all I can say about this.
08:00I was going to ask, why would you say that?
08:01But I guess you already answered.
08:02He said what he said.
08:03Yeah, you said what you said.
08:05Okay.
08:06And, I mean, let's be real, transparent.
08:10He is the, you know, guy.
08:12You know, I'm the music, the man behind the music.
08:16I sing my little songs and, you know, but he is, he does all the records.
08:23You know what I'm saying?
08:26But, I'm sorry to say it's not the same.
08:28So, is there any, is there any, I don't want to say beef, is there any, is there a strain
08:35to that relationship or is it just, it just ain't what it was?
08:38It's not what it used to be.
08:39Okay.
08:40Yeah.
08:41It's kind of, after the fifth or sixth year of us being a group, it just kind of went
08:46this way because, you know, I was still doing what I was doing and producing and it was just
08:51like so much envy.
08:53Mm.
08:54You know, and that's why I said, around 90, I just said, I got to get out.
09:00You know, I got to keep moving.
09:02And, well, 91, started working with Michael Jackson and everybody.
09:07And I said, you know, Michael's like, why you quit the group?
09:10I'm like.
09:13What did he say?
09:14What did he say, Teddy?
09:15Why you quit the group?
09:17I was like, yo.
09:19I said, because I got to come and work with you and I don't want to even put my spirit.
09:25Yeah.
09:26Or my energy into that.
09:28Teddy Riley's our guest this morning.
09:29Remember the Times Memoir is his book.
09:31It's out and available for everyone.
09:33We'll be back with more with him right after this on V103.
09:36Big Ticket Morning Show with Jazzy McVie on the people's station, V103, ATL's number
09:39one for hip-hop, R&B, and throwbacks.
09:42Teddy Riley's here, Jazzy.
09:43Teddy Riley.
09:44Teddy is here.
09:45We left off talking about the late, great Michael Jackson.
09:49What was your fondest memory of working with Michael?
09:54Going to the Neverlands.
09:56Really?
09:57Yeah.
09:57Okay.
09:58It was the most incredible place to see in person.
10:02I was going to ask you, because you hear about the Neverlands and Michael Jackson's home,
10:07and they tried to redo the movie and everything.
10:10Give me one memorable experience or one thing that you saw at the Neverlands with Michael Jackson.
10:18The soap.
10:19The what?
10:20The toothpaste, the toothbrush, the robes.
10:25Really?
10:25The bed spreads.
10:27Everything was Moonwalker.
10:29Really?
10:29Yes.
10:30Everything.
10:32I'm telling you.
10:33Like, going to his movie theater, and you find some stuff that really scared the heck out of you.
10:39Yeah, really?
10:40Like, he had the seats, and every seat had its own subwoofer.
10:45Wow.
10:46But he had, like, these cubicles with beds, right?
10:51So if you wanted to lay back and watch a movie, how about the subwoofers in the room and the
10:58cubicles and you?
11:00The first movie I saw in there was Jurassic Park.
11:04Okay.
11:04Oh, wow.
11:05Forget about it.
11:06And then I went back another time, and I actually took Damien.
11:15And he was just, like, a kid in a candy store.
11:19No, we were good.
11:20We were good.
11:20But he was, like, a kid in a candy store.
11:22He's like, yo, I just don't believe I'm here.
11:25Absolutely.
11:25And I said, I don't either.
11:28It's my second time, you know?
11:30But it was fun.
11:31It was just fun, you know?
11:35And the first time meeting him there, because one time we went, he wasn't there.
11:40Okay.
11:41He just let us go.
11:42That don't even count, Danny.
11:43So wait.
11:44But the first time we went, it was just me and my manager at the time, Harvey.
11:51And they made Harvey wait, you know, in one waiting area.
11:57And I went to this room with all his plaques, everything.
12:03And it had this gold and platinum chest set.
12:08Literally, like, real gold and platinum.
12:10So I'm up here.
12:12I'm contemplating, should I touch it?
12:16So I'm like, okay, let me go and touch it.
12:18And I went to go touch it, and this hand just hit me.
12:21I was like, I fell to the ground.
12:24One thing about Michael is he loves to play a lot.
12:28Like the jokester.
12:29Okay.
12:30He's a jokester.
12:31He's a prankster.
12:32And you have so much fun with him after the first moment.
12:39So he scared me, and, you know, he came through this Murphy type of, his fireplace turns around,
12:47and he just entered the room.
12:49I didn't hear nothing.
12:52I guess he paid a lot of money for that thing to be quiet.
12:56Because you didn't hear nothing.
12:58Next thing you know, he's just, Teddy.
13:03Teddy, that was actually maybe the last time he called me Teddy,
13:08because he stopped calling me Teddy and calling me Theodore.
13:11Stopped.
13:13You say he started calling you Teddy?
13:14He started calling me Theodore, yeah.
13:17Only Michael could get away with that.
13:18I was going to say that.
13:20So, but the rest, you could read in the book.
13:23Absolutely.
13:23Because there's some funny moments.
13:24Got to get this book.
13:25It's available now.
13:26Remember the Times, a memoir by Teddy Riley.
13:29Whoever you not worked with that you wanted to work with.
13:31You worked with all the icons, from Whitney to MJ to...
13:35Lenny Kravis.
13:36Really?
13:37And Seal.
13:38Okay, nice.
13:41Anderson Park.
13:43You want to do something with Anderson?
13:44Oh, my God.
13:45I want to hear that.
13:47PJ Martin.
13:49Okay.
13:49Okay.
13:51Who else?
13:54Coco Jones.
13:56Keirani.
13:56Yes.
13:57Artists like that.
13:58Artists that are doing real music.
14:00Lucky Day.
14:01Shout out Lucky.
14:04Who else?
14:06It's a lot.
14:07But those are the ones, you know.
14:09Okay.
14:09Talking about like real music, you know, great spirits.
14:13You know, that's what I'm with.
14:16Now, when you think about music, if you look back on your career, like what moment made you realize that
14:22your music was actually changing the culture?
14:25Michael Jackson.
14:27Really?
14:28Go back to Michael.
14:29Really?
14:30Yeah.
14:30Because he took it even higher.
14:33He just took it to the sky.
14:34And I knew from then I can work with anybody.
14:39You can work with Michael.
14:41You can work with anybody.
14:42Really?
14:43Yeah.
14:43Because I'm telling you, it's like going to college and he will send you back to the drawing board.
14:49You said he will?
14:50Yeah.
14:51Okay.
14:51I've been sent back to the drawing board a few times.
14:54Like, no.
14:55And he would pull out this bag of that.
14:58You know, he had this briefcase.
15:00And he said, you're going to have to sound like this or better.
15:04I'm like.
15:07And to the point to where we never got it in California.
15:12So, he sent us back to Virginia.
15:15He said, I want the original sound.
15:18Because this is, you don't understand, Theodore.
15:22I'm like, you have to.
15:27So, I just knew from there that it was all about perfection.
15:33Like, the greatest of it.
15:34He said, I settle for nothing less than great.
15:38So, go get me greatness.
15:42Leave me.
15:43He said, leave me.
15:44No, he wouldn't say that.
15:46I'm just messing with y'all.
15:50You want to remember the times king.
15:52Leave me.
15:52But I'm going to ask you, was there a point?
15:54Because Michael Jackson, he was such a perfectionist.
15:57And I know you know your craft.
15:59So, was there ever a point in time when you and Michael kind of went back and forth on something
16:03that you.
16:04Never.
16:04Really.
16:05So, you just took it.
16:06Me?
16:06Yeah.
16:07No?
16:08Him over there.
16:09But not me.
16:10I'm not going back and forth with him.
16:11Okay.
16:12Okay.
16:13We going to get it.
16:14You going to get it right.
16:14We going to make it right.
16:15And that's what I did.
16:17Love it.
16:17Teddy Riley.
16:18Because if I didn't.
16:19When I appeared, I saw everybody.
16:22I'm saying no names.
16:24Mm-hmm.
16:26But I could say one name because he even said it in his book.
16:29Mm-hmm.
16:29L.A. Read.
16:30Okay.
16:31So, when I was there, L.A. Read and them were there and some other producers.
16:35I give it about maybe a week.
16:38Everybody's gone.
16:41What do you mean gone?
16:42Like dismissed.
16:44Everybody's gone.
16:46He only wanted to work with me.
16:49I was like, so where's?
16:51Oh, they had to leave.
16:54They had to leave.
16:57But L.A. and Babyface, they did songs with 3T.
17:01Okay, yeah.
17:02And they were working on stuff for Michael.
17:04But I guess Michael wanted, you know, New Jack Swing.
17:09He just wanted that.
17:10But, like, his favorite records were, you know, Groove Me, I Like, and Spend a Night.
17:17You know, Heavy D, the stuff I did with Heavy D, like Overweight Lover.
17:22And he's like, I need that.
17:26That's the sound I want.
17:28And I was like, okay.
17:29Amen.
17:30Teddy Riles, I guess, this morning on V103.
17:33So, Teddy, we're starting some stuff lately.
17:36All the time.
17:38We talked about people you hadn't worked with.
17:41And you named a bunch of people infamously missing from that list with somebody you said
17:46that you previously wanted to work with, which was Mr. Robert Kelly.
17:52You said that you wanted to put out all this music.
17:54Apparently, he's done, like, 25 albums in Wild Inconcerated or something like that.
17:59Yeah.
18:00And you wanted to help bring it all to life.
18:02But then the world came for you, Teddy.
18:05They sure did.
18:07You said?
18:08And I don't need no mess.
18:09I don't need that smoke because this is my children.
18:13I work for my children.
18:14That part.
18:15And, you know, I found the help for him.
18:22Okay.
18:23You know, I had to kind of step out of the picture because, you know, I have a project.
18:30You know, I have this.
18:31And I have the Guy 2.0 record.
18:34And I want people to still enjoy my music, you know.
18:38And, you know, I just feel like I got a few things got canceled.
18:45You know, and my publishers was like, what are you doing?
18:49And I'm like, okay, I know what to do now.
18:52I got to step back.
18:54You know, sometimes you got to fall back on things.
18:56And, you know, of course, everybody would want to hear his music again.
19:02But there's some people who are like, you know, you got these people who just, they come for you.
19:07Yeah.
19:08And it resonates.
19:10Do you still talk to them?
19:12I do.
19:13Okay.
19:14Yeah.
19:14I do.
19:16And I have, but, you know, as far as projects, you know, we can have our, that's the homie, man.
19:27Right.
19:27Yeah.
19:27Did you expect that type of reaction when you were being vulnerable, you know, saying that you were going to
19:32work with R. Kelly?
19:33Do you expect that reaction from the audience?
19:35I actually didn't.
19:37You didn't?
19:37Because when I posted the remix, it was love.
19:41Right.
19:42And then, bam, somebody's like, so this is what you're doing?
19:46I'm like, this is what you're doing, homie?
19:50My New York people, like, I said, I don't know, man.
19:56And then, it's just one start, homie.
20:02Floodgates.
20:04Absolutely.
20:05Also, recently, there was a conversation centered around Keep Sweat and whether or not who got paid and when they
20:12got paid.
20:13Yeah.
20:13I think I saw an update that he actually got paid.
20:16No, no, no.
20:17Oh, no, he still has not gotten paid.
20:18We both didn't get paid.
20:19Oh, nobody got paid.
20:20Nobody got paid.
20:20Yeah, but what we're doing is, you know, some things that will kind of open up how, where everything went.
20:28And it's not lawful to have a name, you know, on a record or any project without having some sort
20:38of employee agreement or producer agreement.
20:43Right.
20:43Right.
20:44So, already, they're violating.
20:46Okay.
20:47So, something that we have to work out in the court.
20:49Oh, it's got to be worked out.
20:50And I'm not trying to bring any smoke, you know.
20:53I'm just trying to do it amicably, you know.
20:56Where is my money?
20:57No, let me stop.
20:58No, for real.
21:01It's okay if you say that because, you know, people need their coins, you know.
21:06No, it is.
21:06I mean, and I feel like Keith needs his as well, you know.
21:11That's my brother for life, you know.
21:13And he's done so much, you know, for me.
21:17Yeah.
21:18Even just bringing me on to the project.
21:19If I wasn't on that project, y'all wouldn't know me for doing.
21:24It probably wouldn't be Make It Last Forever.
21:26Wow.
21:26We need that.
21:29And I won her.
21:30Actually, that was the first demo I did for him was I won her.
21:36And I said, man, this is great.
21:38I know this is good, but I don't know if it's a hit.
21:40So, when it came out, it was on Slammin' and Jammin' with Frankie Beverly.
21:48No, not Frankie Beverly.
21:49Frankie Crocker.
21:50I'm saying Frankie Beverly because he's all, you know, it's like my uncle, man.
21:54But Frankie Crocker, he introduced the record and everybody slammed it.
22:00Really?
22:02I looked at my mom because my mom was the first one to tell me, what is that?
22:07I said, I don't know, mom, but I'm, this is something new.
22:11She said, that sounds so good.
22:13So, I knew.
22:14And then kids was dancing outside of my window because I lived on the first floor in the projects.
22:19So, I went, my A&Rs was my people in the projects, my family in St. Nick projects.
22:25And I call them my family, but, you know, it's my friends.
22:29And they would dance to the records.
22:31And if they ain't like it, trust me, they ain't dancing to it.
22:34They'll tell you.
22:35And so, that was the first record I did.
22:38And the first thing my mom told me to do was the poor man, the poor man copyright.
22:44Take it, put it on a cassette.
22:45Oh, okay.
22:46Mail it back to yourself.
22:48Okay.
22:48You know, and I did that, you know.
22:50And I followed her and she was just like, okay, now you can go ahead and give it to him.
22:56I was like, okay.
22:58So, that was my first, you know.
23:00And Frankie, Frankie Crocker just said, y'all may sound this record, but I'm going to jam this record because
23:07this is a new sound.
23:09This is the new wave.
23:11And I was like, wow, this is it.
23:13Mom, we made it.
23:14You made it.
23:15Teddy Riley is here.
23:17So, you made the new Jack Swing.
23:20Yes, sir.
23:20What does that mean, sir?
23:22Like, when you think back.
23:24You actually put it in a rhyme.
23:26Well, I got to say this.
23:28I don't take all the credit for New Jack Swing because it took a tribe.
23:34Okay.
23:34You know what I'm saying?
23:35I can say I'm the architect of it.
23:37Okay.
23:38And started something with all my friends from the projects from My Hood, Doug E. Fresh, B-Fats and all
23:46the guys.
23:50And everybody just took it on.
23:53So, back in that day from the 80s, late 80s, all the way up to 2000, you had to be
23:59doing New Jack Swing in order to get a record deal.
24:04So, just being a part of that, you know, starting something, you know, I'm just blessed to even be a
24:12part.
24:13Love it.
24:13Now, one word to describe the New Jack Swing era.
24:18One word.
24:19Hmm.
24:20Culture.
24:21Okay.
24:22Okay.
24:23Yeah.
24:23I like it.
24:25What was the most?
24:26Oh, no.
24:27Well, that was a lot of fun.
24:29Can we talk about the Rump Shaker video?
24:34All I wanted to do was, I told you I came in there.
24:37What you want to say about the Rump Shaker video?
24:40Do you remember the day shooting the Rump Shaker video?
24:44Of course do I remember that day.
24:46What was your fondest memory of the Rump Shaker video?
24:50Now.
24:53Well, my fondest memory because, no, mine.
24:57Yeah, yours.
24:58I almost drowned.
24:59Really?
25:00Yeah, we was out and I had my boat, right?
25:03Okay.
25:04So, we parked the boat and we got on our jet skis.
25:08So, me, I think it was Arkell, Markell, all of us riding our jet skis.
25:16And I'm trying to do stunts.
25:18Oh, my God.
25:19I ended up in the deep ocean.
25:20Wow.
25:21And I did have on a what's name, but it wasn't helping me.
25:25The live jam.
25:26Yeah, and someone came and saved me.
25:28It's the first time.
25:29I did it twice.
25:30When I moved to Africa and Cape Verde, I did the same thing.
25:37And I was in the water for about 10 minutes and I was going down.
25:41The current was taking me and one of my employees came and saved me.
25:47Don't do that.
25:47Can you swim, Teddy?
25:49Yeah, no more water.
25:50Don't do that.
25:50You can't swim.
25:51And you can't.
25:52Wait a minute.
25:53I don't understand.
25:54We own a boat and a jet ski, but we can't swim, Teddy?
25:57And not only once.
25:58You did it twice.
25:59I'll tell you this, that moment, I swam.
26:03I tread.
26:04I stayed up until somebody came and got me for 10 minutes.
26:08Oh, my gosh.
26:09Somebody came and got me and I was like, I took swimming lessons the next day.
26:14I was going to ask you, do you know how to swim now?
26:16Oh, yeah.
26:17I'm better.
26:17I'm better.
26:18Yeah, stay away from the water, Teddy.
26:19Not the memory I was thinking I was going to get from the roughshaker, Teddy.
26:22My kids are better than me.
26:24Yeah.
26:24My wife is a fish.
26:26Okay.
26:27Okay, good.
26:29So, as soon as our pool is finished, I'm going to be in there and I'm going to be every
26:34day.
26:35Only the three feet?
26:36How weird.
26:37Nah, I got it.
26:37I got it.
26:38It's a deep.
26:38No, you can swim.
26:39I don't know.
26:41I can go down and come up.
26:43That's it.
26:44All right.
26:45I can get across.
26:46I can get across underwater.
26:48Underwater.
26:48Okay.
26:48Yeah.
26:49All right.
26:49You took swimming lessons.
26:51I guess we'll leave you alone.
26:52Yeah.
26:53Okay.
26:53Definitely not the memory I was thinking.
26:54So, that was my fun moment, but I don't know what y'all talking about over here.
26:58No, I don't have anything specific.
26:59I was looking for a story, but that was good.
27:02The rump shaking video was epic.
27:04I'm telling you.
27:05I was young, looking at it, and I was like, I can't wait to get grown.
27:09That's what you thought that you were?
27:10Yeah, I did.
27:11I was like, I can't not wait to grow up because I want to put on a base.
27:14So, I'm saying, this is nice.
27:16Don't ask me.
27:17It's not about me.
27:18It's about him.
27:21So, when it's saying, all I want to do is zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, and I'm over.
27:25I didn't really understand the words.
27:27I just know there was just a lot of rump shaking in the videos, and I was like, I want
27:31to be
27:32grown.
27:32This looks fun.
27:33I can't wait to shake my rump.
27:34Yeah.
27:35What's up?
27:36I was young.
27:36I didn't know, but that was epic.
27:38That was fun, though.
27:39It was fun.
27:39And it was the first real major video in Virginia.
27:45Nice.
27:46And then, Pharrell wrote my rap.
27:50Oh, really?
27:51Yeah.
27:51Okay.
27:52Yeah, of course.
27:54Pharrell was like, you know, because I didn't like what I did.
27:57We had, that song was like, it had five different versions, five, six different versions, and
28:03I just kept canning them.
28:04I was like, I don't like this.
28:05I don't like this.
28:06We were going to actually can the record.
28:08That's terrible.
28:09Until I went to Jamaica, and I heard this record that I jacked.
28:16Oh, I know what it is.
28:18Na-na, super cat.
28:19Na-na, na-na, jam.
28:20Bam.
28:20Na-na, super cat.
28:22Bam, bam, bam, bam.
28:24Bam, bam, bam.
28:25I jacked that shit.
28:26I was like, yo, it's mine now.
28:29And I made it even bigger.
28:31I was like, yo, this record went bigger than super cat.
28:34I was like, yeah, this is it.
28:36That's what's happening.
28:37Okay, one other video.
28:39Do you remember wearing, and do you still order a pair of bike shirts?
28:44Na-na, come on.
28:45I don't want to say that.
28:46Ha.
28:47What was we thinking, Teddy?
28:49Yo, I was just doing with the stylist.
28:52I was like, because I kept saying no, and she was like, you got to do this.
28:58Aaron's doing it.
29:00Damien's doing it.
29:00I was like, oh.
29:02Yo, the fantasy video is hard to watch.
29:04Yo, fantasy was terrible.
29:06I don't want people to remember that.
29:09Just remember the song.
29:12Oh, my God.
29:12Not the video.
29:14And then, hold on.
29:17Wait, wait, wait.
29:18I'm trying to remember.
29:21Yeah, we all had them on.
29:22Yeah, yeah.
29:25Go watch it again.
29:27No, I'm.
29:28You good, you?
29:30No, I don't need to watch it again.
29:32You lived it.
29:33I know.
29:34I lived it.
29:36Oh, my God.
29:38Teddy Riles, I guess, on the Big Ticket Warner Show with Jazzy McBee.
29:42If you could, sir, who's on your Mount Rushmore of R&B artists?
29:45That would be four.
29:46Give me four in the top four.
29:48Mount Rushmore.
29:50Meaning who is my favorite?
29:52Yeah, your favorite.
29:53Okay, my favorite is.
29:54Mount Rushmore, the bing, bing, bing.
29:57Stevie Wonder.
29:58Oh, yeah.
30:00Donny Hathaway.
30:01Okay.
30:05Surprisingly, James Ingram.
30:08Okay, James Ingram.
30:11Luther Vandross.
30:12Ooh.
30:14And I have to give, it's two low singers that, it's like fire.
30:21Barry White or Isaac Hayes.
30:24Okay.
30:25I like it.
30:26But Marvin Gaye.
30:30Mm-hmm.
30:30We way past four, Teddy.
30:32I know, but y'all can't stop me.
30:35Y'all gotta give me, yo, because you can't just put, you can't say these four guys and,
30:42or four artists and not add like Aretha Franklin.
30:48Mm-hmm.
30:49You know what I'm saying?
30:50Patty the Bell.
30:51Mm-hmm.
30:53Chaka Khan.
30:55Chaka Khan.
30:57Who else?
31:00Whitney Houston.
31:01Facts.
31:03MJ didn't make the list.
31:05So, you gave me four for the females and four for the males.
31:09I'm saying Michael Jackson didn't make the list.
31:11Michael Jackson is in there, but that's over like the top.
31:14That's over the top.
31:15Okay.
31:15That's zero.
31:16So, that's the beginning.
31:18That's the beginning of time.
31:20Okay.
31:21If you remember the time.
31:22I see what you did there.
31:23I mean, of all times, you know, one singer who can actually do pretty much anything.
31:29Mm-hmm.
31:31Now, I'm going to ask you, Aretha Franklin, it's crazy.
31:35I literally just saw her movie.
31:37It's dope.
31:38Oh, my gosh.
31:39It is.
31:40I loved it.
31:41But all of the greats are getting in movies.
31:43What about you?
31:44Teddy Riley?
31:45Oh, it's coming.
31:46Movie biopic?
31:47Who plays you?
31:48Yeah.
31:48Who?
31:49It's, you know, it's so crazy.
31:50Now we're older, because I had in my mind, Jarell.
31:56Jarell Jerome.
31:57Oh, okay.
31:57Really?
31:58Okay.
31:58Yeah, because he looks like my sons.
32:01Okay.
32:02You know, but he's older now.
32:04It's like, he got to play the older Teddy.
32:06I was like, like, because we were on Zoom.
32:11I was on with him and Taraji.
32:14Okay.
32:14Because she would play my mother.
32:16Oh, nice.
32:17And she would be the perfect person to play my mother because she's got that spark.
32:22You know what I'm saying?
32:23Like, you know, she can hold a belt and whip my behind, you know, like, because I used to get
32:29beatings, like, crazy.
32:30Like, stench and cords or branch from a tree switch.
32:39We got it, you know, but that's how we are today.
32:43How we turned out today is from that.
32:46Okay.
32:47So it's coming.
32:47So we can look forward to it, right?
32:49Oh, yeah.
32:49Definitely.
32:50Good, good.
32:51Getting calls from directors and people, you know, they want to do the documentary.
32:56Yeah.
32:58I don't want to say yet a director who wants to do the documentary and the TV film and kind
33:05of, yeah.
33:06Can I make a suggestion?
33:08That Antoine Fuqua.
33:09Of course.
33:10Oh, my gosh.
33:11Yeah, he was the one I talked to.
33:13Oh, my.
33:13Oh, he is?
33:14Yeah.
33:15Because he knows my story.
33:17Oh, my gosh.
33:18He's big money now.
33:19Oh, my gosh.
33:20He's big money now.
33:21I know, but he can make it happen.
33:23But he deserves it.
33:24He deserves it.
33:24Because he's been doing it for so long.
33:26Yes.
33:26Now he's got, he's there.
33:29All right.
33:29Looking forward to it, for sure.
33:30Did anybody you work with, you would refuse working with again?
33:36Um, yeah.
33:42Yes.
33:44But you got to ask the other question after that.
33:47Like, if there's anybody I worked with in the past, would I work with them again?
33:52So, I'm going to ask you a question.
33:54I like it.
33:54I like it.
33:55I like it.
33:55I like it.
33:56Okay.
33:56So, answer the first one and I'm coming back.
33:58Okay.
34:02Um, it would be the old guy.
34:04The old guy.
34:05So, wait.
34:06Which answer am I getting here?
34:07That you want to work with again?
34:09That I wouldn't work with again.
34:11That you wouldn't work with?
34:12Yeah.
34:12That you would not work with?
34:16Why?
34:17Yeah.
34:18Rhymes with guy.
34:19It's mean why?
34:19Why?
34:20Well, it's, it's because I feel like the, the, the, the potential and the skills is not
34:30the same.
34:32Mm-hmm.
34:32And, um, you know, like the guys I'm working with, I know I could pull anything off.
34:38I can do any of the guy records over again and you, you can close your eyes and think
34:43you're listening to Aaron.
34:45Mm.
34:46Okay.
34:46Um, but I couldn't do that with him.
34:49Mm.
34:51Okay.
34:52It's unfortunate, but I, that, I hear you.
34:55Um, so who is someone that you worked with before that you would look forward to working
34:59with again?
35:00Bobby Brown.
35:01Bobby Brown.
35:03Ooh.
35:03I like it.
35:05Yeah.
35:06I think I'm gonna do it.
35:07I'm, I'm, I'm gonna do it.
35:08You're gonna get him?
35:10Okay.
35:11Watch.
35:13I'm, I'm not doubting you at all.
35:14Watch me.
35:15I'm not.
35:16Watch me.
35:17We out of here.
35:19Yes.
35:20I, I, I feel like if we get together again, you know, because one time we had a meeting
35:27and, uh, I was meeting with some producers, you know, on the phone and it was like, so
35:34we get ready to do the Bobby Brown project again.
35:37And they were like, uh, I didn't have that in my plans.
35:41And I was like, I would.
35:44But, so, I'm putting it out there because I really feel like him and I get together.
35:51First thing we're gonna do is we're gonna, how you say, we're gonna go into physical
36:00and mental therapy and get our minds together.
36:05And then we're gonna hit the studio running.
36:08I like it.
36:10I'm looking forward to that, ladies and gentlemen.
36:12Telly Riley's in the building, brand new memoir, Remember the Times, available everywhere.
36:18I'm looking forward to this guy 2.0 hitting the ATL sooner than later.
36:22Yep, yep.
36:24The biopic coming soon.
36:27Movie.
36:27Wait, when did you know that was a thing?
36:29What?
36:30Yep, yep.
36:31I just did it, you know, and when I did it, I kind of, just so everybody know, I'm the
36:37first person doing tags, but I never said my name, just so y'all know.
36:42But, yep, yep was my tag.
36:44Okay.
36:46So, and then I had a bunch of other things, but yep, yep was the main thing.
36:52But what, like, you just were doing that to tag the records.
36:54You didn't know it was like becoming a thing?
36:56Because yep, yep was a thing.
36:57It definitely was a thing, and then look at it today, all the producers are doing their
37:03name as a tag, and I was like, hmm, nah, yep, yep was the tag.
37:09That was your signature, that signature.
37:12That's what I did.
37:13You know, I didn't really have a signature as far as vocally.
37:16Right, right, right.
37:16So, I said, okay, my signature is yep, yep, one, two, with the one, two checker and all
37:23of those things were my tags.
37:25Okay.
37:26Even the remiss, a giggity yep, yep.
37:28Yep, yep.
37:31Teddy Riley's in the building.
37:32Good to see you, black man.
37:33Man, thank y'all.
37:34Happy for you.
37:35See y'all, too.
37:35Good to finally meet you.
37:37Absolutely.
37:38Right.
37:38Absolutely.
37:39Remember the times, the memoir available and out now, so please go get it, read it, learn
37:44something about this man, the myth, the legend, the man who brought us the new Jack Swing,
37:48the culture still lives on, and he'll be back in the ATL for GOP 2.0.
37:53We outside with it.
37:54Big Ticket Morning Show with Jazzy McBee on the People Station, V103.
37:58Yep, yep.
37:59Yep.
38:01Yep.
38:02Yep.
38:03Yep.
38:04Yep.
38:04Yep.
38:05Yep.
38:06Yep.
38:06Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:07Yep.
38:08Yep.
38:08Yep.
38:08You
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