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🎶 Legends collide in this unforgettable episode of Sway In The Morning on Sway’s Universe! Join the iconic Jazzy Jeff and Teddy Riley as they share their journey through hip-hop history, music innovation, and personal stories that shaped their legendary careers. From Jazzy Jeff’s reflections on working with Will Smith and Jay Dilla to Teddy Riley’s groundbreaking influence on music production, this conversation is packed with exclusive insights you won’t find anywhere else.
Experience the raw talent and spontaneous artistry as Jazzy Jeff discusses his approach to DJing and live performances, including his tribute to Jay Dilla at Playlist Live’s Donuts 20th Anniversary show in LA. Plus, witness the surprise moment when Teddy Riley joins the studio to drop gems about his memoir, "Remember the Times," set to release February 10th!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Jazzy Jeff Is Here!
02:06 - Jazzy Jeff’s Morning Mix
03:48 - How Jazzy Jeff Approaches Each Mix
06:25 - How Jazzy Jeff Stayed Grounded
09:08 - Caller Interaction
11:41 - Caller Discussion
13:02 - J Dilla Donuts 20th Anniversary
15:32 - Decision to Create
17:43 - Evolving with Music Locations
21:00 - Teddy Riley Walks In
22:58 - Teddy Riley’s New Memoir
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Yo, the greatest.
0:03
>> Thank you, Lonnie. LIGHT UP.
0:05
>> THE GREATEST OF ALL time has ENTERED THE
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BUILDING.
0:09
>> HE FINALLY GOT OUT OF JAIL AFTER that
0:11
driveby he did in Napa Valley.
0:14
>> They're still SEARCHING FOR HIM. NAPA
0:17
VALLEY IS STILL SEARCHING FOR HIM. WE
0:20
have an APB out for Jazzy Jeff.
0:22
>> Murder. [screaming]
0:23
Murder.
0:26
Murder.
0:28
I just want y'all to know that I'm going
0:30
to counseling for that. [laughter]
0:34
>> I'm trying to get my life right.
0:35
>> Oh man, we got him here, ladies and
0:38
gentlemen. As promised, I know y'all
0:40
didn't believe Jeff. Jeff, you going to
0:41
do a set for us, too?
0:42
>> Yeah, man. Listen, you got me up this
0:44
early, so I might [laughter] as well.
0:47
>> And Jeff is spending the night at the
0:48
region LA. If you don't know the region,
0:51
we just did our for the culture 3 event
0:53
there uh about a month ago. What a great
0:56
venue. Shout out to Amanda and all the
0:58
guys over there. Right. And it's going
1:00
down tonight. The region LA. Is it still
1:03
room? Can people get in?
1:04
>> Yeah, it's a little bit. It's a little
1:06
bit, man. We did a rehearsal last night,
1:08
man. And I was It's It's weird doing a
1:12
rehearsal of your own show and you are
1:15
amazed.
1:17
>> Yeah. I was Man, this is this is
1:20
definitely going to be special.
1:21
>> That's going to be special. All right,
1:22
man. Man, so I'm going to let you get
1:23
set up and then afterwards we could do
1:25
some, you know, talk too, right?
1:27
>> Yeah, man.
1:28
>> Is that cool?
1:28
>> Yeah.
1:29
>> Jazzy Jeff Amir here too, man.
1:32
>> Come on, man. They got the whole family
1:33
up in here.
1:34
>> Yeah, but Amir, I bumped into him as at
1:36
Nam. Did he told you? Yeah.
1:38
>> Did he tell you what I said to him?
1:40
>> No.
1:40
>> Uh, okay. [laughter]
1:43
I've noticed he stay. Come on, man. Your
1:45
uncle. It's your uncle. YOU ALWAYS SAY
1:46
WHAT UP, MAN. [laughter]
1:49
>> Grab a chair. Get the mic.
1:52
I said, "Uh, you tell your dad what I
1:54
said."
1:54
>> I did. I told him he wanted me to spit.
1:56
>> Okay. That's cool. Do that after the
1:59
mix. That's what we do.
2:00
>> That's what we do, right? Hip hop's most
2:02
royal family is here. All right.
2:05
[laughter] Okay. We going to come back
2:06
with Jazzy Jeff. Sway in the morning,
2:08
Heather B, Tracy G, SHAY 45, PLAY MY
2:11
JOINT.
2:12
>> DON'T GIVE HIM NO REST, HEATHER.
2:14
[laughter]
2:16
[applause]
2:17
>> YO, the one and only, the legendary.
2:19
>> Wow, man. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
2:23
>> Superb.
2:23
>> Wow. Superb. Trace, that that really is
2:26
the word, man.
2:27
>> Wow.
2:28
>> I don't even know if Jeff realized that
2:30
during this time in the mix is actually
2:32
our lunch hour. So, we all actually run
2:35
and scatter when mixes come on because
2:38
it's our time for breakfast. And I think
2:40
this is the first time in like a 14-year
2:43
history that we have all sat in our
2:46
seats during our lunch break. And people
2:50
have come from long and far to to watch
2:53
this. It's it's unbelievable, Jeff, man.
2:55
Salute. I mean, you family and
2:57
everything, but you got to just keep
2:59
reminding you how blessed and how gifted
3:01
you are, man. It's unbelievable to see.
3:04
Unbelievable.
3:05
>> I appreciate I hope I ain't messing
3:06
nobody breakfast or lunch up.
3:09
[laughter]
3:10
>> We are more than satisfied.
3:12
>> Oh man. Give it up for Jazzy Jeff,
3:14
ladies and gentlemen, as I was
3:16
mentioning. and [applause] and tonight
3:18
you he's going to be performing at the
3:20
Region Theater LA downtown in LA and
3:23
it's going to be a playlist live Donuts
3:27
20th anniversary um jam
3:29
>> featuring a DJ set from our legendary DJ
3:32
Jazzy Jeff is plus a concert experience
3:35
tickets are available right now at
3:37
regent dtla.com
3:40
the limit I don't even know if they
3:41
still got some left it's standing room
3:44
only just
3:44
>> it's standing room only and Um, and and
3:47
and we we'll be remissed. First of all,
3:49
we got Chad on the line from LA. Chad,
3:51
what do you think of the mix? We got
3:52
Jackie Jeff in here. Chad, what up, man?
3:54
Legend. Jeff, you got me dancing in my
3:57
car, man. [laughter] I'm losing my mind.
4:00
I've been rocking with you since Rock
4:01
the House, Jeff, since the 80s, bro. And
4:05
please keep putting it together like
4:06
you're putting it together, man. You You
4:08
are icon. You are a classic, Jeff. Keep
4:11
doing your thing, man. We are with you
4:13
out here. Keep playing this music, man.
4:15
I'm telling you, I'm losing my mind over
4:17
here.
4:18
>> Oh man, appreciate it. Appreciate it.
4:20
>> You want to talk with Jazzy Jeff?
4:22
8887423345.
4:24
Man, man, I've been watching Jeff DJ
4:28
since the '9s.
4:29
>> Yeah.
4:29
>> You know, he used to come out to the
4:31
bay, do sets for us back then for Kel.
4:34
We've done boat cruises, all all kind of
4:36
stuff. And there's never been a mix that
4:39
I have not been impressed with. But I
4:42
have to ask you, man, like, how do you
4:44
not dial it in? How do you approach each
4:46
mix? Do you treat it like a new child? I
4:49
mean, every mix is something different.
4:51
>> Cuz I don't plan it.
4:53
>> Okay.
4:53
>> I don't I don't plan it. I I put records
4:56
in folders
4:58
>> um that I can go in and out of and pick
5:02
different arrangements. Um it's it's so
5:06
much spontaneous that it's just kind of
5:08
like what what does your body tell you
5:11
>> should go next? Uh-huh. That's like the
5:13
antithesis of program radio like to, you
5:17
know what [laughter] I mean? Like do
5:19
program radio do the exact opposite.
5:21
Everything is playing
5:23
>> to the second.
5:24
>> But I think that's why people really
5:25
enjoy it now because
5:27
>> you don't get a lot of that,
5:28
>> right?
5:29
>> You don't, you know what I mean? Like,
5:30
you know, I was just telling somebody
5:32
the other day that um I if I had to give
5:36
advice to a new DJ, I'm giving you
5:38
advice from the the '9s or the 80s. You
5:42
know, I'm telling you to be different.
5:44
I'm telling you to play outside the box.
5:45
I'm telling you to find stuff that
5:47
really feeds your soul and and and
5:50
connected with the people.
5:51
>> But that's not what is here today. like
5:55
you know the the the programming kind of
5:57
makes everything in a box in a in a
6:00
small box. That's the reason why people
6:02
complain like he sounds like him and he
6:04
sounds like him and everybody's playing
6:05
the same records. But you know I I I
6:09
fortunately I've been blessed
6:11
>> to get to a point that I play how I
6:14
want.
6:16
>> Um and I play where I want.
6:18
>> Um and that's that that trust me that
6:20
was that was 40 something years to get
6:22
there.
6:22
>> Yeah. Well that's a formula. Yeah.
6:24
>> Let me ask you this cuz you we met you
6:27
coming in the game with Will Smith
6:30
>> who is arguably the most rec
6:32
recognizable face on the planet,
6:35
>> right? Will can't go anywhere, right?
6:37
>> Um and even though you guys origin story
6:40
is the same, your journey is a lot
6:42
different. You could go everywhere.
6:44
>> Yeah, that's and that's on purpose.
6:47
[laughter]
6:47
>> How did you that though? But how did you
6:50
craft that?
6:50
>> I did not like it.
6:51
>> Okay. I did not like it early on. Like
6:54
um
6:55
>> I remember coming out to LA um and Will
6:58
saying to me, "Hey, ride to the mall
7:01
with me. I want to buy a chess set."
7:03
Which I didn't quite understand. You
7:04
know, I was kind of like, "Okay, he want
7:06
to get a chess set." So, we get in the
7:07
car and we drive to the mall and we pull
7:10
up and it's like Tuesday afternoon at
7:12
3:00
7:13
>> and he pulls up and we get out and we
7:15
walk in the door. We made a right and
7:18
probably took 30 steps and it was a
7:21
thousand people.
7:22
>> Oh.
7:22
>> And he turned around and walked out and
7:24
we got in the car and he drove back home
7:27
in silence.
7:29
>> And I knew what it was. Like he
7:31
completely lost his freedom.
7:33
>> And I was like, I'm never going there.
7:36
>> I got to pick my own groceries.
7:38
[laughter]
7:38
>> Like there's certain things that I just
7:40
enjoy in life
7:42
>> that I don't care what kind of
7:44
privilege. I don't want nobody picking
7:46
my groceries. I don't want nobody,
7:48
>> you know, going to the store for me,
7:50
picking out my clothes. There's, you
7:51
know, and and there's nothing wrong with
7:53
the people who do that. Yeah.
7:55
>> I just need a certain level of
7:57
grounding.
7:58
>> How do you ground your kids then and the
8:01
family members around you a lot of times
8:02
when you become the, you know, famous
8:05
and a celebrity,
8:07
>> your immediate family feel like they are
8:08
too. How do you keep them grounded?
8:10
>> Well, if I don't do it, they don't do
8:11
it.
8:11
>> Okay.
8:13
>> You know what I mean? like
8:14
>> if if if I'm picking my groceries and
8:16
cleaning my room, they got to do the
8:18
same.
8:19
>> And I mean, it's it's it's simple. It's
8:21
kind of like
8:22
>> we all kind of grew up with what our
8:25
parents the the groundwork that they
8:27
laid
8:28
>> and then as you get older, it's up to
8:30
you to take, you know, you can change it
8:32
once you leave. You know, I I literally
8:34
looked at all of the stuff that my mom
8:37
taught me,
8:38
>> and no disrespect, but I picked the
8:40
stuff that worked for me and I slid the
8:43
stuff that didn't to the side.
8:45
>> And then I brought it into my family.
8:47
When Lynette and I got together, we kind
8:49
of crafted what we wanted our family to
8:51
be
8:52
>> and we picked the stuff that worked. She
8:54
she probably did the same thing. And and
8:57
we crafted that. And just like air Cory
9:00
and everybody when they go on, they're
9:03
going to pretty hopefully do the same
9:04
thing,
9:05
>> right?
9:05
>> I think so, man. Jazzy Jeff is here. I
9:08
got to take a couple callers right
9:09
there. You want to ask him something
9:11
calling since this this morning?
9:13
>> Benjamin is in Indiana. What you want to
9:14
say to
9:15
>> Benjamin's baby? What up, Betty?
9:17
>> What's going on? What's going on? Yo,
9:19
Jackie, what's fire?
9:22
>> That was appreciate it.
9:24
>> I was like,
9:25
>> you put Stevie in there, too. Hey man,
9:29
if it's good music, you gotta play it.
9:31
>> Hey, I was like, yo, this dude ain't
9:33
just dropping some CD, too. I'm like, I
9:36
was rocking the whole time. I didn't
9:37
stop moving.
9:38
>> I appreciate.
9:39
>> I was sitting there. I'm playing Call of
9:40
Duty talking [laughter]
9:44
>> and I got the music playing. I'm like,
9:46
yo, this is the dude going off. I'm
9:49
like, yo, this is live right now. I'm
9:52
not even I can't even rewind this. This
9:54
is live right now. Listen to this.
9:56
Listen to this mix. I'm no lie. I'm I'm
9:59
kicking ass right now on Call of Duty
10:01
talking about you.
10:02
>> But yeah.
10:03
>> All right, man. All right, man.
10:04
>> I don't think I was alive when you was I
10:07
don't even think I was alive when you
10:08
was real popping for I'm only 37, but
10:12
>> I know that Express Prince like I was
10:15
sitting like, dang, I don't even think I
10:16
really heard that whole song. [laughter]
10:19
>> All right. Hey, man. Thanks for your
10:21
call and excitement, Benjamin. All
10:23
right. We really appreciate you, man.
10:24
>> Get back to that Call of Duty.
10:25
>> Okay. Uh, let me see. [laughter] Uh, we
10:29
got Allan from Montreal all the way in
10:31
Canada. What up, Alan?
10:32
>> What up, Alan?
10:34
>> Hey, what's up, family? How you guys
10:35
doing?
10:36
>> Excellent.
10:38
>> Long time listener, first time caller.
10:40
Finally getting through.
10:41
>> First time caller. Hold up. First time
10:42
caller.
10:47
>> Welcome to the cipher.
10:49
>> Thank you. Thank you. Um, I wanted to
10:51
give Jazzy a good shout out because I
10:53
DJed with Jazzy back in 2006 when he was
10:55
in Montreal and he was the one who put
10:58
me on to Sorado. It was the first time
11:00
ever.
11:01
>> Wow.
11:01
>> After I after watching him hit the
11:05
turntable, I even still have the videos.
11:07
Well, you know, back in the day we had
11:08
those portable cameras. I videotaped
11:12
everything.
11:13
>> So, from that point out,
11:16
>> I've been following everything that
11:17
Jazzy Jeff does. I appreciate it, man.
11:19
>> So, I got to give a shout out to him.
11:21
>> Yeah.
11:22
>> Anytime in Montreal, I'm always there.
11:25
>> I appreciate it, man.
11:26
>> Yeah. He does everything you do. Is that
11:28
what he said?
11:29
>> He got a make him a biter, [laughter]
11:31
Jeff, in hip-hop language. Is he a
11:33
biter, bro? No. Okay. All right.
11:35
Respect.
11:36
>> Okay. All right. Allan, you you're not a
11:37
biter. [laughter] You're a citizen,
11:39
though. All right. Let me take All
11:41
right. No problem. Uh, let's take one
11:43
more. Let's go to Illinois. Lamont, go
11:45
ahead. We got Jazzy Jeff here. Lamont,
11:47
get it.
11:48
>> Yo, Jazzy Jeff, man, talk about
11:53
transcendent time and space, man.
11:57
>> You You don't understand. These kids
11:59
don't understand, man. Like my man over
12:01
here playing Call of Duty. He's not
12:04
really understanding what you did. He
12:05
said he did, but he isn't. [laughter]
12:07
Like, for real, man. Everybody else
12:10
talking about they dancing and grooving.
12:12
I'm listening to the transitions like
12:15
trying to guess the songs, trying to
12:17
guess what mix is coming in next.
12:20
>> That's how that that's DJing, man. Like
12:24
you are a god DJ. They talk about the
12:26
god MC, you a god DJ.
12:29
>> That's just appreciate it, man.
12:30
>> Like for real, for real. Even your
12:32
conversation transcended
12:34
>> your conversation about the things you
12:36
took from your parents.
12:38
>> That transcended all the conversations
12:41
they done had today on the radio from
12:43
the shoveling and the things you passed
12:44
down to your kids
12:46
>> to [laughter]
12:46
to the caller playing Call of Duty not
12:49
hearing these songs. Like they don't
12:51
understand, man. They don't understand
12:53
the work that you do and you don't put
12:55
in to make this music what it is. Man,
12:57
you are hip-hop and they need to
12:59
understand that. Man, you are great and
13:01
I appreciate you, man. For real.
13:03
>> I appreciate that, man. Definitely.
13:04
>> LeBron, you're a super citizen. Jeff is
13:07
performing tonight. Playlist Live,
13:09
Adilla Donuts, 20th anniversary. Yeah.
13:11
>> Uh Jay Dilla, one of another legendary
13:14
greats that uh passed on. I feel like he
13:16
passed right when this album The album
13:19
came out right around the same time.
13:21
Yeah.
13:21
>> Right. I remember this cuz we were
13:23
covering My Block.
13:24
>> We were doing My Block in the Bay. Yeah.
13:27
for MTV and then we got word that Diller
13:29
had passed and then Donuts came out
13:31
right
13:32
>> around that same time.
13:34
>> If you can man tell us
13:37
>> what kind of conversations did you and
13:39
Dilla have?
13:40
>> Um music like he was he was so much into
13:45
music like he would he would take a $40
13:48
flight from Detroit to Philly. I pick
13:50
him up from the airport and we would
13:52
drive straight to the record store and
13:54
he would go digging. We would go get him
13:57
a cheese steak. I would take him to his
13:58
jeweler because his jeweler was on South
14:00
Street. I take him to his jeweler and
14:02
then he would come to the studio until
14:04
his flight had to leave and I would take
14:06
him back
14:07
>> and he might have did that 10 times. And
14:09
it was it was nothing but music. Like
14:12
that man loved music. Um and I feel like
14:16
he heard music different than we did.
14:19
>> Okay. How so? just um when when first of
14:23
all I I was amazed that everybody went
14:26
to Detroit to work with him
14:29
>> and when he did the song on my album he
14:31
came to Philly
14:32
>> okay
14:33
>> and he came with five records
14:38
>> and that's what he made the entire song
14:39
off of. I sat there and watched him make
14:42
this record with five records from drum
14:45
sounds to samples to atmosphere to live
14:48
hand claps and he did it in 15 minutes.
14:50
>> What? And I and I just sat there and it
14:53
it it was amazing to me like you and I
14:58
got to be honest. Listen, he he he went
15:00
to the bathroom and I had a code on the
15:02
door and he and he had all these disc
15:05
drum sounds and I was looking at it and
15:08
I was just like, I sure would like them
15:10
drums. [laughter]
15:12
>> But I was like, God wouldn't want me to
15:14
do that. That's that's not, you know,
15:16
and I didn't.
15:16
>> You didn't.
15:17
>> But no, we No, we we were, you know,
15:19
super tight taking record digging trips
15:22
and all the rest of that. So,
15:23
>> you know, and that that,
15:25
>> you know, we lost one. We I mean we lost
15:27
a lot but we lost one with him.
15:30
>> Yeah. What made you decide to do this?
15:33
Um, you know, it it it kind of became a
15:36
thing almost every February
15:38
>> that it turned into Diller month, you
15:40
know, because you celebrated his, you
15:42
know, his birthday. Um, and people
15:45
started doing, you know, I was asked to
15:47
do some tributes before
15:50
>> um, and it turned into a thing and and
15:53
last year, you know, because, you know,
15:55
we live stream so much. Um, last year we
15:59
did a live stream concert in the studio.
16:02
um that I had, you know, a a a full
16:05
band.
16:06
>> Um De Lasso was there. I remember that.
16:09
Yeah.
16:09
>> Um Black Thought was there, Chemist,
16:12
Dane Jordan, Amir, Mumu, Fresh. Um and
16:16
it was received so well that we were
16:19
like, why don't we just pick this up and
16:21
take this to a venue? Um you know, in
16:24
celebration of him.
16:25
>> And that's what's taking place tonight
16:27
at the region deep downtown LA. Um,
16:30
you're gonna have James Poison is gonna
16:32
be there. JP gonna be there.
16:33
>> Well,
16:34
>> oh,
16:34
>> let me Yeah, because we we had some snow
16:38
issues. Okay. Okay. Had some snow
16:40
issues. Who's coming? A couple of us
16:43
didn't make it. Unfortunately, Stro
16:45
Elliot got stuck.
16:46
>> Okay. What about Mumu
16:47
>> and James? Mumu's here.
16:48
>> Mumu Fresh is here. That's all you need.
16:50
Shout out to
16:52
Mumu. That's all you need, man. Like I
16:55
said, I was at soundcheck yesterday
16:58
>> and you almost felt like a proud dad
17:01
>> like watching watching this all come
17:03
together because it's it's it's really
17:06
an organized jam session.
17:07
>> Yeah.
17:08
>> You know, it's it's really it's very
17:10
much
17:11
>> kind of how I played. It's very much
17:13
improv,
17:14
>> but it's very organized. Butcher Brown's
17:17
arguably one of the best bands on the
17:19
planet.
17:19
>> Yeah. Um, you know, I got my brother
17:22
Nigel Hall, Kite Taithm from Bugs in the
17:24
Attic and all the rest of that. He's
17:26
here.
17:27
>> You know, I got Dane Jordan, Amir Mumu,
17:29
and we got a ton of special guests.
17:32
>> The the the unfortunately the guest list
17:35
has spiraled out of control.
17:37
>> But you know what? Listen, it's a it's a
17:39
celebration and we got open mics and and
17:43
and we going to get it in.
17:44
>> King Tech is coming out tonight, man. He
17:47
been rounding up all the Amanda was at
17:49
our house last [laughter] night. That's
17:50
all they were talking about was you
17:52
going to see Jeff tomorrow? We're going
17:53
to see Jeff tomorrow. [laughter] You
17:55
bringing dudes out of retirement off the
17:58
couch for this.
17:58
>> Listen, I I don't go out.
18:00
>> Yeah.
18:00
>> I I don't go out. I love my house.
18:03
>> I love You know what I mean? I don't um
18:05
And that's one of the things that I
18:06
think live streaming has brought me.
18:09
Yeah.
18:10
>> What what what I've realized is
18:12
>> we did not we we did not age out of the
18:15
music. We aced out of the location.
18:17
>> Uhhuh.
18:18
>> Like I'm not necessarily trying to
18:21
>> That's a
18:21
>> You know what I mean? Like I'm not
18:22
trying to go to and and and you know
18:25
what's funny is I I had Grandmaster
18:27
Flash on the stream and when he came
18:30
down I told him I said, "Flash,
18:32
>> I want you to understand that there's
18:34
somebody that hasn't seen you DJ since
18:37
1980."
18:38
And he kind of looked at me and I said,
18:40
"Flash, you think they're coming to the
18:42
club to see you?" and he said, 'I never
18:45
thought about that.
18:47
>> It's it's it's really you don't age out
18:50
of the music. But
18:52
>> to me, until we started live streaming,
18:56
what does a true hiphop lover
18:59
>> do to to fill their soul?
19:02
>> Yeah.
19:02
>> You know, they kind of like, yeah, I'm
19:04
not trying to go out with 21 22 year
19:07
olds and it's no, you know, it's no
19:08
disrespect. The way
19:10
>> they don't want us there 21, you know
19:12
what it is? I look at it like
19:14
Nickelodeon.
19:14
>> Uhhuh.
19:15
>> I don't think Nickelodeon is bad. I just
19:17
don't watch it no more.
19:18
>> Yeah.
19:19
>> Yeah.
19:19
>> Right. You
19:20
>> I outgrew it.
19:21
>> Yeah.
19:21
>> Just like you outgrew that location.
19:23
>> Mhm.
19:24
>> So, we're trying to bring, you know,
19:26
listen, that's that's that's Nappa.
19:28
>> That's Napa, right?
19:30
>> Shoot, man. I shouldn't have brought
19:31
that.
19:31
>> You brought that up.
19:33
>> Murder scene. It's a scene. There's a
19:35
murder on the scene. There's a murder on
19:37
the scene. Oh, man. We got Brian on the
19:40
line from Kansas City. What up, B?
19:42
>> [laughter]
19:43
>> Hey B, did you see any you see any
19:46
suspects in Napa?
19:47
>> You kept them body bags, [laughter]
19:49
>> man. I'm mad at you in heaven cuz y'all
19:51
didn't uh y'all supposed to give a
19:53
disclaimer to bring the Ben gang out and
19:55
everything else, [laughter]
19:56
man.
19:59
>> I was just with your boy Marlon Williams
20:01
smoking one of his cigars at the uh
20:03
cigar bar, man. I don't do all that
20:05
partying like that no more. See,
20:07
>> man. Man, your boy had me swaving back
20:10
and forth at Napa Valley, man. Me and
20:12
wife swaging and surfing.
20:15
>> Oh my god. That
20:18
>> nappa thing or something, man.
20:20
[laughter]
20:21
>> And I feel like we said that on stage.
20:23
They going to talk about this for years.
20:25
>> Absolutely.
20:26
>> What people don't know, Jeff got on the
20:28
stage at Napa at the Blue No Jazz
20:30
Festival, Black Radio Experience.
20:32
Heather and I was hosting with Robert
20:33
Glasber. Shout out to Rob.
20:35
>> Yes. And um Jeff did the afterparty and
20:39
>> one of the after parties.
20:40
>> One of the after parties and it was a
20:41
trip to see how they taped off the venue
20:44
with yellow tape.
20:45
>> I [laughter] didn't know what that was
20:46
for.
20:47
>> Magnifying glasses came out.
20:50
>> Oh my gosh.
20:51
>> He don't even qualify as a DJ no more,
20:53
man. He a storyteller, man. It's a
20:55
different
20:56
man.
20:57
>> That's a DJ. I appreciate you super
21:00
citizen, brother.
21:01
>> A sway in the morning. Jeeoff, now that
21:03
now that I got you here, man, and we
21:05
talking about Jay Dilla,
21:07
>> you know, I got a chance to work with
21:09
Touch of Jazz, your production team that
21:11
that worked with everybody from the
21:13
Roots to Jill Scott to Kendricks on down
21:16
the music soul child.
21:17
>> There's another amazing producer that I
21:21
think is finally starting to get the
21:22
props he deserved that you got a chance
21:25
to work with. He made the song I'm
21:26
Looking for the one.
21:29
>> You know who I'm talking about?
21:30
>> No.
21:30
>> The one and only Teddy Riley. Oh man, he
21:32
worked with you, brother. [laughter]
21:35
>> That was your song.
21:36
>> Listen, Teddy Teddy's the goat, man.
21:39
Teddy is the goat. Teddy actually was
21:41
the one that got me into sequencing.
21:46
>> Teddy got you into
21:48
>> Man, Teddy Teddy taught me so much
21:49
stuff. Teddy gave So, let me just say
21:52
this. Teddy Riley gave me the drum
21:53
sounds for The Fresh Prince of Bair.
21:56
>> No way.
21:57
>> And look who just walked in the room.
21:59
Oh, the one and only just locked in the
22:02
door. [laughter]
22:05
[cheering]
22:07
>> Wow.
22:08
>> What a moment, man. What a moment.
22:10
That's beautiful.
22:12
>> That's beautiful, man.
22:14
>> Wow.
22:16
>> That's beautiful.
22:17
>> Yo.
22:18
>> Wow, man. Teddy,
22:20
>> Teddy, you got to sit down.
22:21
>> Teddy, you sit here. Then y'all switch
22:22
seats. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jeff,
22:25
you're going to be our interviewer now.
22:26
[laughter]
22:26
>> All right. Teddy, sit right here. Okay.
22:28
Wow.
22:29
>> Teddy Riley is here, ladies and
22:31
gentlemen. One of the That's your
22:32
surprise, Teddy. [laughter]
22:34
>> Wow. One of the most legendary.
22:37
>> Oh my goodness.
22:38
>> Of all time.
22:39
>> All time.
22:40
>> We're not just talking. You see Heather
22:42
B over there, T.
22:45
>> You know what?
22:46
>> Let's play a song and come back. We got
22:48
Teddy Riley and Jazzy Jeff here,
22:51
>> which is crazy. Like, this is crazy
22:53
right now.
22:53
>> This is crazy, right? We going to come
22:55
back and talk with them. Y'all good for
22:56
that, Jeff?
22:57
>> Absolutely. All right, mama. I made it.
22:59
>> Teddy Riley got the new memoir, Remember
23:01
the Times, is set to release February
23:03
10th.
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