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Step into the world of music history with this exclusive Sway In The Morning interview featuring the legendary Teddy Riley! Known as the pioneer of New Jack Swing and a multi-platinum producer, Teddy shares untold stories about working with Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, and Janet Jackson. He opens up about his journey from Harlem projects to global fame, his groundbreaking collaborations with K-pop groups like EXO and Girls Generation, and the emotional moments behind his new memoir, "Remember the Times."
This conversation dives deep into Teddy’s iconic sound, his influence on hip-hop and R&B, and his reflections on forgiveness, legacy, and innovation in music technology. With special appearances from Jazzy Jeff, Eric Sermon, and more, this episode is packed with insights, laughter, and raw emotion. Don’t miss Teddy’s plans for Guy 2.0 and his thoughts on staying ahead in the ever-changing music industry.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:29 - Jazzy Jeff
07:25 - Teddy Riley’s Impact on the Community
08:47 - Jazzy Jeff and Teddy Riley's Mental Preparation
11:22 - Getting in the Zone: Jazzy Jeff & Teddy Riley
13:00 - Teddy Riley on His Godfather Jean
18:58 - Overcoming Doubts: Teddy Riley on R&B Production
21:03 - Teddy Riley: Being Ahead of His Time
23:18 - Teddy Riley Experience & Guy 2.0
27:24 - Lessons from Fame: Teddy Riley & Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds
31:05 - Legendary Stories with Jazzy Jeff & Teddy Riley
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Wow. [cheering]
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>> Gosh. My gosh. Ladies and gentlemen, he
0:06
is here, man. This guy deserves a
0:08
standing ovation. Singer, songwriter,
0:11
the pioneer, the founder of New Jack
0:13
Sween,
0:14
>> platinum selling groups like Guy and and
0:17
Black Street. You don't even know about
0:19
the K-pop groups uh that he's worked
0:21
with. Okay. With Girls Generation,
0:25
um was it Shine? Shiny Shiny. Shiny,
0:28
right? These were EXO, right? These are
0:31
early uh generation K-pop groups. He
0:35
produced song wrote songs for the likes
0:37
of Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson,
0:40
Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson in the
0:42
Songwriters Hall of Fame. Ladies and
0:44
gentlemen, multi-platinum on top of
0:46
multi-platinum. Uh this guy right here
0:49
is a GOAT.
0:50
>> There's no question. There is no debate.
0:53
You don't even have to go back and forth
0:55
on it. Give it [laughter] up for the
0:56
legendary, the one and only, the
0:59
phenomenal, the anomaly himself. He made
1:02
music in project BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK
1:05
CITY. GIVE IT UP FOR THE ONE AND ONLY
1:07
TEDDY RILEY IS UP.
1:08
>> Standing old. Yo, another standing
1:10
ovation today. Yo, two,
1:14
man.
1:15
>> That's not a genre he hasn't mastered.
1:21
>> Come on, man. Teddy Riley got his new
1:23
memoir, Remember the Times.
1:26
>> So, let's play Remember the Times.
1:29
>> Teddy,
1:29
>> let's go.
1:31
>> Do you remember giving Jazzy Jeff the
1:34
drum sound
1:36
>> that he used
1:38
for his music?
1:39
>> Fresh Prince of Belair.
1:41
>> I do. Um him, Eddie F, who's my partner
1:44
now. And
1:44
>> Wow. Um I it's like I always do, you
1:49
know, it's it's because um what he does
1:52
with my sounds, we're not going to do
1:54
the same thing.
1:54
>> Yeah.
1:55
>> And I know that he's going to take it to
1:57
another level, especially with him being
1:58
a DJ. He's, you know,
2:01
>> it's it's so much that you can do.
2:03
>> So me doing that was just always
2:06
something. It's like trading baseball
2:07
cards when we were young,
2:09
>> you know. So
2:10
>> that's what we did.
2:11
>> What was that like for you though? This
2:13
is Teddy Riley right now on the We meet
2:15
people and we smile, we shake hands, and
2:17
we play cool, but then it's that voice
2:19
in the back of our heads that's speaking
2:21
like, "Oh [ __ ] this is Teddy." Right?
2:23
What What you met him and that was
2:25
taking place, he's giving you sounds.
2:26
So, what's going on in your mind?
2:28
>> I mean, listen, we've done shows, we've
2:30
done tours. Um, and I think that the
2:33
thing that stood out more for me is, you
2:36
know, coming up in the era where you
2:38
would soak your records in the tub to
2:40
take the label off because you didn't
2:41
want to let anybody know what [laughter]
2:43
the record was, people wasn't as
2:45
forthcoming with passing information.
2:48
>> And I remember picking up the phone um,
2:52
you know, because taking that jump from
2:54
a SB1200 to an MPC
2:57
>> was a completely different thing.
2:58
>> Yeah. And I remember calling him and
3:02
because I, you know, and this is a tech
3:04
talk because I remember buying an Elis's
3:06
HR16, which was the most basic sequencer
3:10
in the world.
3:12
>> If you shook it too hard, everything
3:14
erased.
3:15
>> Oh my.
3:16
>> Um, and and he said, "You need to go and
3:19
get you an MPC."
3:20
>> Uhhuh.
3:21
>> And he literally laid out basically what
3:24
a sequencer did. you know, if you
3:26
programming drums and you trying to
3:28
program a baseline, you put this on
3:30
this. Like, he gave me a blueprint and I
3:33
went and I bought it and that helped me
3:35
immensely. And like I said, just, you
3:37
know, especially back then, you know,
3:39
cuz I don't I'm I'm trying to, if I'm
3:41
not mistaken, it was on one of these
3:44
super big giant
3:46
>> removable hard drive things that he gave
3:49
me drum sound. The big the big one.
3:52
>> Yeah. Yeah. It was the big one. But it
3:54
was just one of those things that, you
3:56
know, he gave me these drums and I was
3:58
like, "Yo,
3:59
>> this is, you know, these are Teddy's
4:01
drums and when we had a chance to make
4:04
the Fresh Prince of Bair, I just popped
4:05
it in and picked some drum sounds and
4:08
programmed it."
4:09
>> You know, we we you know, we all
4:12
followed his pattern of of what he did.
4:15
Like there's not, you know, and and and
4:18
I've said this recently.
4:21
Um, I don't know a lot of producers that
4:25
have a sound today.
4:28
>> Right now, you can pretty much put
4:29
everything in a computer, put some
4:31
plugins on it, and it's going to sound
4:33
good,
4:34
>> but it doesn't have a your sound.
4:37
>> It has a sound.
4:39
>> Teddy was the last man that I can
4:41
remember that had a distinct sound. Drop
4:45
the needle on the record, that's Teddy.
4:49
Not just from the programming, but the
4:50
sound, the sonics, like he cared about
4:54
everything, every aspect when it comes
4:56
to to production, and we all followed
4:59
his lead.
5:00
>> Teddy Riley is here, man. The new book,
5:02
The Memoirs, Remember the Times, Second
5:04
Release on February 10th.
5:06
I've known Teddy since Kumo Ds when
5:11
[laughter] Flash was rocking on the
5:12
beatbox.
5:13
>> That's right. Right. the shack crew, you
5:15
know, [laughter]
5:19
>> sway digging.
5:20
>> Wow.
5:21
>> Don't do Hey, Teddy, don't do this to
5:22
me, man. [clears throat and laughter]
5:24
>> Don't act surprised.
5:25
>> Going to Harlem World.
5:26
>> Yeah. Right. Right.
5:28
>> But Harlem World, for those who don't
5:30
know, anytime I talk to somebody from
5:32
New York who grew up at a certain time,
5:34
>> they bring up Harlem World.
5:37
>> How influential was Harlem World, would
5:39
you say, to the progression of hip-hop
5:41
music and how we make it? It was very,
5:43
you know why? Because actually Harlem
5:46
World was one of the places and seeing
5:48
like everybody perform. I was a fan. I
5:51
was with Shaku. I was a hustler.
5:53
>> Yeah.
5:54
>> It made me stop hustling.
5:55
>> It made you stop hustling.
5:58
>> Actually,
5:58
>> Shaku kicked me off the block.
6:01
>> And you remember Al Capone?
6:02
>> Yes.
6:03
>> Al Capone, he always remind me. He said,
6:04
"Man, I wish I was the one that was
6:07
kicking you off the block."
6:09
>> Yo, you you made it.
6:10
>> I said, "You could have made it, too."
6:12
He was a drummer.
6:13
>> Mhm.
6:13
>> And Supreme, you remember Supreme was
6:15
the one who was battling Biggie?
6:18
>> Yeah.
6:18
>> We were all in Shaku, we was hustlers.
6:20
>> That's crazy.
6:21
>> All together. Little um who else? Uh
6:24
Yogi,
6:26
>> the whole crew is It was like maybe 25
6:28
of us. Only seven left.
6:30
>> What was There's only seven left out of
6:32
25.
6:33
>> Yeah.
6:34
>> What was your hustle?
6:36
[laughter]
6:37
>> You being a swag. It's a op. So what?
6:39
You can still incriminate yourself.
6:41
Listen, you can you can I had three
6:43
jobs. I had three jobs.
6:45
>> Okay.
6:46
>> I would uh sell papers in the morning on
6:48
Sunday mornings and Saturday.
6:50
>> Go to church, play for the church, and
6:53
after church,
6:54
>> I would get into my hustling clothes and
6:57
go downtown and hustle.
6:59
>> Damn. After church, what a heathen,
7:03
[laughter]
7:03
>> right?
7:04
>> Yeah.
7:06
>> Yes. Um this is one I want to do. Teddy
7:09
Riley's here. There's so much to talk.
7:11
Jeff is now flipping the script. Yeah.
7:13
>> And he's a correspondent. He's our new
7:16
addition to Sway in the Morning with
7:17
Heather B and Tracy. I love it.
7:19
>> Tracy, welcome Jeff. You're new. Jeff,
7:22
[laughter]
7:22
>> thank you.
7:23
>> All right, we got Cadia on the line.
7:25
She's in the Bay Area.
7:26
>> Hey, Kadia.
7:26
>> Cadia, welcome to the show.
7:29
>> Hey. Hey, Sway. Hey, Heather.
7:31
>> What's up, girl?
7:33
>> What's up? What's up? I just had to call
7:36
in for one. Um, I'm I'm in the Bay, but
7:39
my origin, and Teddy, you would love
7:41
this, is 225 West 129th Street. Wow.
7:45
>> And so I and on the 7th floor. So I
7:49
remember the times of being a little
7:51
girl hearing Teddy make his beats and
7:54
his music.
7:55
>> Wow.
7:56
>> Through the pipes. Huh.
7:58
>> Yes. [laughter]
7:59
>> Through the pipes.
8:00
>> So in the project
8:02
through the radiator.
8:04
>> Yes. And you remember Miss Black used to
8:06
knock on the pipes.
8:08
>> She used to knock on the pipes, right?
8:11
>> Turn that music,
8:13
>> huh?
8:13
>> Was Did anybody ever complain? Because
8:17
[laughter] it was loud, but it was very
8:19
entertaining. And I always wondered
8:21
that. And I'm like four, five, six years
8:24
old. Um, and so to see you blow up the
8:27
way that she did is you made St. Nick
8:30
very proud. And I just love that. I love
8:32
that for us. I love that for you. Um,
8:34
you probably even know my family, my
8:36
aunt Norma. Uh, like I said, we was on
8:39
the seventh floor. So, I'm just so proud
8:41
of you. I just had to
8:44
[laughter]
8:45
>> Small World.
8:46
>> Small world. You're a super citizen.
8:48
>> In the morning. Um, I have a question
8:50
for both of you. Um, I know Jeff, you
8:52
spoke about spontaneity in terms of
8:54
DJing and Teddy, I'm not sure about your
8:56
process of producing, but I'm wondering
8:58
about your mental and spiritual
9:01
discipline. And I say that because Jeff,
9:04
I watched you in this room today do this
9:06
mix and I watched everybody just stare
9:09
at you. And I'm wondering like what's
9:12
going through your mind? How do you
9:13
prepare? Because it has to take
9:15
something whether you do it at home with
9:17
your family prior to whether you're in a
9:19
room and your spirit has to come
9:21
together at a certain place to do what
9:23
you do. And Teddy, for you, I mean
9:25
obviously we know your history, but what
9:28
goes through your mind the night before?
9:30
Yeah, I got a session with Michael
9:31
Jackson tomorrow. Like, how do you
9:34
mentally and spiritually prepare for
9:36
something like this? Jeeoff, I'll start
9:38
with you.
9:39
>> Um,
9:41
uh, I I think the gift and the curse for
9:45
me is I don't see or hear anybody in the
9:49
room.
9:50
>> Like, you know how people tell DJs to
9:52
read the crowd?
9:53
>> Yeah.
9:54
>> Everybody's invisible to me.
9:57
M
9:57
>> like I because I can't
10:00
>> I can't break my mental focus
10:03
>> to look at someone or to acknowledge
10:05
someone because it takes away from my
10:08
concentration
10:09
>> and
10:10
>> I don't I I I'm not really comfortable
10:14
around a bunch of people. I don't I
10:16
don't really do that. So, I I have to
10:19
find a way to cut that off
10:20
>> and just kind of get inside of of your
10:23
own head, which can be a gift and a
10:25
curse because if if if I'm in a
10:28
different place where everybody else is,
10:30
it could be a bad night,
10:32
>> you know, knock on wood, that I I'll
10:35
always come in and Dane will tell you
10:36
that I come in and I read the room
10:39
before I start
10:40
>> and I'm not reading the room necessarily
10:42
from what somebody is playing. I'm
10:44
looking at I remember doing a a a tour
10:47
in in uh Korea and they were telling me
10:52
they're not up on new music. Don't play
10:55
anything new because they're not up on
10:57
it. And I walked in and saw three girls
11:01
with Jay Diller shirts on. And I was
11:04
like, I'm not listening to anything that
11:07
they say.
11:07
>> Yeah.
11:08
>> Because I I I I feel that the energy of
11:10
the room will accept what I what I what
11:13
I do. So I I you know I read the room
11:16
and then I cut the light switch off and
11:18
I just go.
11:18
>> Got it. So it's spirit and energy. Got
11:21
you. Got you.
11:22
>> Jazzy Jeff is here. Teddy Riley is here.
11:24
New new memoir. Remember the times.
11:26
Teddy. What about you?
11:27
>> What about you? Yeah.
11:28
>> So for me as a producer working with
11:32
Michael Jackson, you get no sleep.
11:35
and the day before and you know you're
11:37
just like
11:38
>> I don't know how I'm going to go in this
11:41
room and and just be
11:43
>> normal.
11:45
You're not normal. So one thing I
11:47
learned from him and everything that I
11:49
do
11:50
even performing I'm not me.
11:55
>> I'm my idol.
11:57
>> And when you're your idol you're going
11:59
to do the best you can because you're
12:00
not looking at you.
12:03
So when I used to perform before meeting
12:05
Michael, I used to be I I used to try to
12:08
hide behind my dog on kear. Literally,
12:12
if you seen like when I'm just doing
12:14
this, I'm like trying to [laughter]
12:16
>> trying to hide
12:16
>> put it on my face and cuz I would I was
12:19
shy back then.
12:21
>> But [snorts] after meeting Michael and
12:23
and just being around Bobby, you know,
12:27
they didn't care. It was like, so when I
12:29
asked Michael, I said, "What do you do
12:31
to uh when you perform like how you not
12:35
shy, but you're shy sometimes around
12:37
people?"
12:39
>> He just said, "I'm not me.
12:41
>> I'm Freddy Stale. I'm James Brown."
12:43
That's why you see he just goes in
12:47
>> and that's what made me a better
12:48
performer, a better producer.
12:51
>> Man, thank y'all for sharing that. Thank
12:53
you.
12:54
>> Thank you, Teddy. That's crazy that
12:57
>> Teddy Riley is here. 8887423345.
13:01
In your Remember the Times memoir, you
13:03
you hit on a lot of um man, it's just
13:06
great reading your perspective on your
13:09
whole life, bro, on your own life and as
13:12
a fan. And then we all been in this so
13:14
long, man. It's, you know, we just be
13:17
happy to see each other.
13:19
>> That's a fact. That's the thing. I'm
13:20
just happy to be here and see everybody
13:22
still here. You know,
13:24
>> we lost a lot of good people.
13:26
>> Yeah, we lost a lot of good people. I
13:28
think about Heavy D being one of them.
13:30
You know, [snorts] this is somebody you
13:31
got to work closely with. And your your
13:34
career hasn't probably been as clean,
13:37
um, if you will, behind the scenes as
13:39
somebody like Jeff. We never hear a
13:40
whole lot of controversy or any
13:43
friction, business friction with Jeff.
13:45
With you, there was a lot. There were a
13:47
couple of things. You know, when you
13:48
think of Black Street, we think of guy
13:50
and then you have a chapter called
13:52
forgiveness
13:53
>> in this memoir, right? And you're
13:55
talking about Jean Griffin, right?
13:57
>> Yeah.
13:58
>> I thought that was a powerful chapter,
14:01
how um he wanted to talk with you um and
14:05
you guys swim down to Virginia and go
14:07
over the things that happened in your
14:08
life. I'm trying to talk about this
14:10
without letting people know what that
14:11
is. I rather you tell people why was
14:14
that chapter so important and who was
14:16
Jean to you? James my godfather
14:19
>> and uh contrary to whatever he's done to
14:22
me you know I still had love for him
14:26
>> you know and um I knew he was uh kind of
14:29
slowing down
14:30
>> you know when I remember one time he
14:34
came to visit me cuz he when he came to
14:36
visit me the first time he just started
14:38
coming frequently
14:39
>> and I remember a couple of days went by
14:43
you know because he usually comes like
14:45
once a week and he missed a week. So I
14:48
was like, "Is everything okay?" So I w
14:50
up getting a call that week from a
14:53
police officer.
14:55
He was driving down to me.
14:58
He never made it. What happened was um
15:01
he stopped in Raleigh.
15:03
>> Mhm.
15:04
>> At a um gas station with his nephew and
15:07
he wound up leaving his nephew at the
15:09
gas station and ended up in Charlotte.
15:13
He fell asleep on um side.
15:15
>> Mhm. And the police pulled him over and
15:17
said, "Sir, where are you? You know
15:19
where you are?" And he said, "Yeah, I'm
15:22
in Raleigh." And this is how we
15:24
discovered he had uh dementia.
15:27
>> Wow.
15:28
>> So, uh, when that happened, see, Jean
15:31
was the type he never had, uh, you know,
15:34
his phone number was in a phone. He
15:35
always had it on a pad.
15:37
>> And on that pad, when the police look at
15:40
his pad, you know, he said, "Check my
15:41
phone book." And uh my name was the
15:44
first name
15:46
>> on there and they called me first. They
15:49
didn't call his wife and uh afterwards I
15:53
gave them his wife uh number and that's
15:56
when they reached out to him and then I
15:58
went to Atlanta to to see him and they
16:01
um they put him in a home.
16:02
>> Mhm.
16:03
>> When they put him in a home, I said, you
16:05
know, I asked them, did they ever take
16:06
him out of here? Like can he go out? And
16:09
they were like, yes. I said, "All right,
16:11
can I get him over to the rehearsal?"
16:15
>> So, I was rehearsing in uh Atlanta
16:18
in Scottdale and uh brought him to the
16:21
rehearsal and I did a whole guy show
16:22
with him without Aaron and Damian.
16:24
>> Wow.
16:25
>> Wow.
16:26
>> And afterwards I asked him, I said, "You
16:28
know who that was?" He said, "Yeah,
16:30
that's my son."
16:32
>> I said, "Who's your son?" He said,
16:34
"That's that's Teddy."
16:37
>> Not knowing I'm right in front of him.
16:39
Yeah.
16:40
>> So with that, you know, it just brought
16:43
us even closer because, you know, he
16:46
kept me out of trouble.
16:47
>> Yeah. Kept you out of trouble.
16:49
>> You know what I'm saying? Besides all my
16:50
friends, you know, who kicked me off the
16:52
block, but he was the one that just, you
16:55
know, kept me downtown and I was just
16:58
doing things seeing like Kashif and
17:01
>> M2 and um cooling the gang. I was in the
17:05
studio while they was making
17:06
celebration. cate,
17:08
>> you know, tuning drums for about an
17:10
hour.
17:11
>> And these are the things I learned. But
17:12
I was the little water boy. I was the
17:14
guy that went to the store. I was like,
17:15
"You need something from the store?" Cuz
17:18
obviously, you know, I'm not supposed to
17:20
be there.
17:21
>> This was a close session. But, you know,
17:24
I made it.
17:24
>> Yeah, man.
17:25
>> So, that's why, you know, I always still
17:29
give him the credit as, you know, if it
17:31
wasn't for him, I wouldn't be where I'm
17:33
at today.
17:34
>> Amen. Can you tell people who Jean was?
17:36
Like his role in in the music business?
17:38
>> Jean, well, his role in the music
17:41
industry, you know, before getting in
17:44
with us was he was uh kind of like the
17:47
supplier for the record business
17:50
>> and um with Substance. So,
17:54
you know, when he had his first break
17:57
was uh the group that made um Ne is a
18:02
Last Night of DJ Saved My Life.
18:04
>> Last Night of DJ and Heath. I was about
18:06
to say,
18:08
>> but he did he was the record company for
18:11
that group. M
18:12
>> and uh yeah, from that he just started,
18:16
you know, signing groups and he signed
18:18
my older group, Total Climics, and we
18:21
did a record with CBS and then that's
18:24
how CBS
18:26
became Sony because we were Sounds of
18:28
New York.
18:29
>> Wow.
18:30
>> But we never trademarked it.
18:31
>> You never trade Oh, wow.
18:33
>> Yeah,
18:34
>> that's
18:35
>> Oh my gosh. I just found out that that's
18:36
what that was. Sony Sound of New York.
18:38
Okay. Where have I been?
18:40
>> I didn't know. [laughter] Sounds of New
18:41
York. Yeah,
18:43
>> we we didn't know that back in the day.
18:45
We just we got a corporation.
18:48
>> Next thing you know, Sony became Sony.
18:50
It was like can't sue.
18:52
>> Mhm.
18:53
>> Wow.
18:54
>> So, that's how we became GR Productions.
18:56
>> Okay. There it is, man. Um, and
18:59
forgiveness, you're going to need
19:01
forgiveness if you want to be in this
19:02
business for a long period of time.
19:04
>> You want to be in life, right? Yeah.
19:06
Forgiveness is very important, right?
19:07
>> It is. It is. you know, you think about
19:10
all the folks along the way that you
19:12
you're forced to forgive in order to
19:14
move forward. Teddy Riley is here. Um, I
19:17
want to ask you too, when I think of,
19:21
you know, I knew Mod D, like you got so
19:23
many people in your forward from Bobby
19:25
Brown to Mold D, you know, the Big Daddy
19:28
Kane. We knew you as a hip-hop guy. Was
19:32
there anybody who told you, "Hey man,
19:34
you can't produce R&B acts or you can't
19:38
you can't produce a a Michael Jackson or
19:40
a Whitney Houston." Were you ever told
19:42
that?
19:43
>> No.
19:44
>> Okay.
19:44
>> No, I was always pushed even by my
19:46
friends like after we were egged in the
19:49
projects. We were egged, you know, cuz
19:51
me, Timmy, we always used to go walk you
19:54
be in the projects with our little fur
19:55
coats, the [laughter] fake furs, you
19:57
know, and uh they were like, "Yo, they
20:00
singers, they They punks. I'm like, so
20:03
one day we was walking through the
20:05
projects and we got egged. And then
20:07
after Guy came out, it was a whole total
20:09
different world.
20:11
>> Aaron Hall used to stay at my house and
20:13
we used to just write and make music and
20:16
you know, everybody who came down to get
20:18
music from us, we would just write. So
20:20
Bobby Brown came to the projects.
20:23
>> Um, and we and Aaron and I, we wrote my
20:26
prerogative. and you know it's just so
20:30
much we've done that uh just kept us you
20:34
know people pushing us
20:36
>> more or less than saying you can't do
20:38
that you know so we always had people
20:40
around like yo go ahead and do it man I
20:43
know you can do it and I still talk to
20:45
some of my friends today my photographer
20:47
is my childhood friend we went to
20:49
elementary school together
20:51
>> wow
20:52
>> and you know it's just so great to to to
20:56
know that you still have People in your
20:57
corner, not in your circle.
20:59
>> There it is. There it is.
21:00
>> In your corner, not in your circle.
21:03
>> All right, Jeff. Go ahead, man.
21:04
>> Yeah, Jeff, for your question, man.
21:06
Working, Jeff.
21:06
>> I'm I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is my
21:08
first day on the job and I'm getting I'm
21:11
getting jewels and I'm writing these
21:12
jewels down and putting them in my
21:14
pocket.
21:15
>> Um, but I I I think um when I
21:21
>> I love tech.
21:22
>> I love music and I love tech. And I
21:24
think that was one of the things that I
21:26
appreciated about Teddy. Teddy was
21:29
always one step ahead of everybody with
21:33
tech. If I got on something, he was on
21:36
it a couple of years ago.
21:37
>> Okay.
21:38
>> Um, and he and he's always been like
21:40
that. And I think that's what put him in
21:43
a in a in a different category because I
21:45
think when you blend the two, you know,
21:48
when you blend the two, it's is is great
21:50
because I know people who use the same
21:52
thing that they used to make music 25
21:56
years ago and it works.
21:57
>> Yep.
21:58
>> But I also know people that are always
22:00
searching for for new ideas and and new
22:04
things and that and that pretty much
22:06
always been been him.
22:09
You always been forward thinking.
22:11
>> Always. Um, you know, I went to
22:14
Manhattan School of Music back in 1985.
22:16
>> Okay.
22:17
>> And just everything that's on this
22:19
table, I knew about it back then.
22:22
>> Okay.
22:22
>> Ethernet, MIDI, um, wireless, Wi-Fi, all
22:26
of that stuff I learned back then,
22:29
>> because they've been had it,
22:30
>> you know. It's just it we were ready for
22:33
it, but, you know, they don't want to do
22:35
things so fast. because they don't want
22:37
to buy it so fast and but it's things
22:40
that's coming out five years from now.
22:43
It's already here.
22:45
>> Wow. Like can you can you share
22:47
[laughter]
22:48
>> get everybody in trouble like
22:50
>> Yeah. It's um and and it's all
22:52
integration.
22:54
>> Okay.
22:54
>> So soon your AI will be like one record
22:59
company. You'll be able to get
23:00
everything from one AI.
23:03
And these are the things that's going to
23:04
be happening.
23:06
It may just be one record company in a
23:08
minute. Just one
23:10
>> where everybody have to go through.
23:13
>> Sounds a new year.
23:14
>> That sound eerie. [laughter]
23:17
>> All right, Teddy Riley is here. Teddy,
23:19
when I go online, Tracy, I'm going to
23:20
let you jump in. I started seeing things
23:23
about the uh the Teddy Riley experience,
23:26
Guy 2.0.
23:28
>> Is that real?
23:29
>> It's very real.
23:30
>> That's very real. Give that a round of
23:31
applause. So the whole gang coming back
23:33
together,
23:34
>> Aaron coming too.
23:36
>> Not.
23:37
>> Okay, that's not real. Okay, that part's
23:39
not [laughter] real.
23:40
>> No. Um, no. What I did was, you know,
23:42
cuz I'm starting a tour myself and
23:46
>> uh I didn't want to do the same thing
23:47
that Baby Face is doing. You know, he's
23:49
touring and he's got allstar singers and
23:53
>> you don't know who they are.
23:55
>> Well, me, I wanted to do something
23:56
different because I believe in just uh
23:59
raising artists and building artists and
24:01
I picked four dope lead singers and they
24:05
all sing backgrounds everything and I
24:08
just called it Guy 2.0.
24:09
>> That's interesting that I've been always
24:12
known for putting groups together and I
24:14
said, you know what, let me just do this
24:15
and
24:16
>> it'll be Guy 2.0. And then
24:19
>> got me a little controversy. You know, I
24:21
can't get it any other way. I'm not a
24:23
hustler anymore. [laughter]
24:26
>> So, I had to get it the best way I know
24:28
how. So, let me get people talking.
24:30
Yeah. So I kind of did that, you know. I
24:33
did it with the Michael Jackson, my
24:34
nephew, you know, sounds like Michael,
24:37
>> just get people talking, you know.
24:39
>> Yeah. Always what people always want to
24:41
know what we doing.
24:42
>> Yeah.
24:42
>> So I just said, okay, let me give him a
24:43
little something,
24:45
>> you know, until it's time to really drop
24:47
it.
24:48
>> So
24:48
>> what how do you respond to the fans that
24:50
are like, "How can you do Guy without
24:52
the original Guy members when they're
24:53
still here?" What what what is that
24:55
response to that?
24:56
>> I don't
24:57
>> you don't respond to it. Did Michael
24:59
respond when he did all the controversy
25:01
he did or Madonna or any? That's the
25:03
best thing. It's called gorilla
25:05
marketing.
25:06
>> [ __ ] man. Write this down, Jeff.
25:09
>> Oh, I get [laughter] Jeff already got
25:10
it. He don't see nobody.
25:12
>> He knows how to do it. We We're not
25:14
killers, so we got to do it another way,
25:16
you know.
25:17
>> And um it works.
25:19
>> Yeah. Does the fellas call you though?
25:20
Did Aaron say, "Hey, man. What we
25:22
doing?"
25:22
>> Those guys don't Let me just be real,
25:25
man. Those guys, they don't like me.
25:29
>> Oh, okay. Okay.
25:31
>> I have to keep it real. You know,
25:33
>> I've went so long, you know, and and the
25:35
thing about this reason why I've gotten
25:37
on the tours with them and everything
25:39
cuz I I do feel for them.
25:40
>> Mhm.
25:41
>> They're my brothers, but I don't think
25:44
they give the love that I give.
25:46
>> Okay.
25:46
>> And I don't tell I don't go, "I love
25:48
you, man. I love you, man." Every five
25:50
minutes they I love you, man. But they
25:51
don't show the love. Mhm.
25:53
>> I show the love cuz I'm still I'm there
25:56
for them when they had nothing. I was
25:58
there for them multi times.
26:00
>> Mhm.
26:00
>> You know, and it just doesn't come back.
26:04
You know, my mother passed away and
26:06
>> she fed everybody.
26:08
>> Everybody.
26:10
No one came but one person. And I don't
26:14
really care for this person, but he came
26:16
to my mother's funeral,
26:18
>> you know, and just not not to see them
26:22
there because you slept on my couch in
26:24
the projects
26:26
>> and then but that's just how they are,
26:30
you know. So I just
26:31
>> forgive them, keep it moving.
26:34
>> Forgiveness. That's why we started this
26:36
conversation with that chapter, man.
26:38
Give a round of applause for
26:39
forgiveness.
26:40
>> Okay, man. Hey, listen, man. We do a
26:42
garage series here at Sirius XM
26:44
>> cuz I feel like both of them could do
26:46
>> both of y'all could do a We got Tank
26:48
tomorrow. Um Jamon the artist. We've had
26:52
everybody from Estelle to
26:54
>> Melanie Fion. We've had a lot of people,
26:57
man. The the Teddy Riley Experience
26:59
Guide 2.0 should be doing the garage
27:02
series downstairs with us, man.
27:04
>> Do it live audience.
27:05
>> Where J1 at? Get J1 in there. And then
27:07
after Teddy's finished, Jazzy Jeff
27:10
>> Jeff will be right.
27:11
>> Yeah, we need Jeff to do one.
27:12
Absolutely.
27:13
>> Absolutely.
27:14
>> Y'all down artist.
27:16
>> Fully loaded studio. That's good, man.
27:18
It's cameras. Yeah, it's downstairs.
27:19
>> Yes, downstairs.
27:20
>> Oh, trust me, we could go look at it
27:21
when we get off here.
27:22
>> Nice.
27:23
>> All right, let's do it. Tracy, you're in
27:25
New York. I want to let you um chime in,
27:27
please.
27:27
>> Yes, absolutely. It's such a privilege
27:29
to have two goats just bless this mic
27:32
with all of your storytelling, with your
27:34
gifts. So, thank you for joining us. I
27:36
got two things for the each of y'all. Um
27:39
the first is
27:41
every human has the opportunity to
27:44
experience success on some level, right?
27:46
Even if it's outside of their career,
27:48
they could experience success through
27:49
parenthood. They can experience success
27:52
through their health journey. But not
27:55
every experience of success is coupled
27:58
with fame. So, I would love to know what
28:01
fame has taught the each of you about
28:05
yourselves that nothing else could. And
28:07
I also would want to know, I'm not sure
28:09
your relationship with um with
28:11
meditation or mindfulness, but are you
28:14
both able to sit in silence without
28:17
sounds just constantly rumbling in your
28:20
mind like different ideas? That's what
28:22
I'm curious with you two.
28:27
>> She got deep on me. Yeah, she did.
28:30
>> Well, uh, first of all is the the the
28:33
silence and the meditation.
28:36
Um,
28:38
I have an internal DJ in my head that
28:42
drives me absolutely insane.
28:46
>> Like, and and I don't control it. like
28:49
he'll pick the most obscure record and
28:51
he plays it over and over and over
28:55
[laughter]
28:55
>> and you there there's nothing that I can
28:58
do. But I also think that that internal
29:01
DJ sometimes is what helps me come up
29:05
with ideas.
29:06
>> Um you know not not all of them are good
29:09
but I I you have to appreciate the good
29:12
and and and the bad when it comes down
29:15
to that. Um the success part um
29:20
I am not
29:23
I I listen I live in the woods. I have a
29:27
a a beautiful workplace.
29:30
Um the pandemic was arguably the
29:33
greatest time of my life
29:36
>> because I was able like the I felt like
29:40
the world
29:41
>> was doing the same thing I was doing.
29:44
like everybody was forced to kind of
29:45
just kind of reset like um
29:51
I am not a the biggest fan of the fame.
29:55
>> Um and I've never really been the
29:57
biggest fan of the fame. I appreciate it
29:59
and I appreciate it what what it brought
30:02
me but I refused to let it change who I
30:06
am. Mhm.
30:08
>> Um, I've never been able to walk into a
30:10
phone booth and turn into something like
30:12
what you see is is what you get. Like I
30:14
was telling somebody yesterday
30:16
>> on the Fresh Prince of Belair, they
30:18
basically gave me a script. I read it.
30:20
Everybody laughed. I completely didn't
30:22
get it
30:23
>> because I just read it.
30:24
>> Uhhuh.
30:25
>> And I was like, don't ask me to do
30:28
anything else.
30:30
Don't ask me to be a killer. Don't ask
30:33
me to be a lover.
30:35
I am going to be what you put on this
30:37
paper and I'm reading it and that's it.
30:39
And that's the reason why I never tried
30:41
to pursue, you know, uh acting
30:45
>> because I wasn't acting. Now, I wasn't I
30:47
wasn't a buffoon. Let me just say that,
30:49
right?
30:49
>> I just I just read what they put on the
30:52
paper.
30:53
>> But, you know, I I
30:55
>> I wanted to you know what I mean? If if
30:58
I could if I could DJ in the dark
31:02
>> with nobody watching me, you'll be fine.
31:03
I'd be I'd be fine.
31:05
>> Okay.
31:05
>> Wow.
31:05
>> Jazzy Jeff, what about you, Teddy?
31:08
>> Well, for me, um I don't think about
31:11
success. Uh and when people always bring
31:14
up, you know, sometimes I get like feel
31:17
like I'm in a corner by myself. When
31:19
people start bringing up what I've done,
31:22
it's only because I'm still going.
31:24
>> That's it.
31:24
>> And when you're still going, you don't
31:26
think about the success. You You almost
31:29
forget that you're successful.
31:31
And that's just how I am, you know. I I
31:34
feel funny when people start bringing up
31:36
old records,
31:38
>> you know, or things I've done
31:40
>> that they're still celebrating.
31:41
>> Yeah.
31:42
>> And you like that. But for me, I like to
31:45
keep going. So that's like I never did
31:48
anything.
31:49
>> And I always say to some people like I
31:51
said to my mother, I I used to say to my
31:53
mother a lot, she said, "What do you
31:54
think about that?" I said, "I'm almost
31:56
famous."
31:59
>> I'm almost famous. Not there yet.
32:02
>> I think I'll make it there when I get to
32:03
heaven.
32:04
>> There it is. There it is.
32:06
>> All right. I love that, man. Listen, we
32:07
got Teddy Riley here.
32:09
>> Beautiful.
32:09
>> Give that man a round of applause. He
32:11
got the new memoir, Remember the Times,
32:13
coming out
32:14
>> uh February 10th, and it'll be available
32:16
on sites like Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
32:18
Walmart, Target, and more. We got Jazzy
32:20
Jeff. He's performing tonight. We
32:22
celebrating 20 year anniversary of Jay
32:24
Dilla's Donuts Project. That's going to
32:26
be at the region downtown LA. Got a lot
32:29
of special guests there. And Jeff has
32:31
just been hired as our newest co-host on
32:35
Sway the Morning Shane 45. And he has a
32:38
garage series coming.
32:41
Where's J1? Let's get J1 in here to
32:43
cement that.
32:44
>> Yeah, we got to make sure
32:45
>> our latest prior to Jeff, we had another
32:48
new hire who's a correspondent on the
32:50
show now, happens to be a famous
32:52
producer and artist as well, who goes by
32:55
the name of Eric Surman. We got Eric
32:57
Surman on the line right now. This is a
32:59
busy show today. [laughter]
33:02
>> There you go.
33:04
>> THIS IS YOUR LIFE, TEDDY. [laughter]
33:07
>> Eouble Eric ser from EMD. What? What up,
33:10
E?
33:11
>> Brother E. Brother.
33:12
>> Hey, I call to say one thing though,
33:14
too, cuz Jeff br something up. When I
33:17
when Teddy called me down to do Black
33:18
Street, me and him did booty call
33:20
together, right? Teddy Raleigh already
33:22
had computers already in the studio.
33:24
This is 1993. He had computers already.
33:27
That was already foreign. So when Jeff
33:29
said that he was advanced, he was
33:31
already advanced. Now I come in with a
33:34
[ __ ] keyboard with broken keys. Act
33:37
steady. He says, [laughter] "Okay." Uh
33:40
he said, "So you bringing your music out
33:41
of this shit?" I'm like, "Yeah, it's
33:43
called a rolling W30. This [ __ ] works."
33:45
Right. So and one more story. So while
33:49
while I'm doing while we're doing the
33:51
record, Michael Jackson Sway is in the
33:54
bus right outside. Get the really
33:57
>> right. So, so Teddy, this is my stupid
34:00
[ __ ] that I regret my whole life. Teddy
34:02
says, "Eric, do you want to meet
34:04
Michael?" I says, "Nah, not now. Maybe
34:06
later."
34:08
[laughter]
34:11
>> A NER [laughter]
34:15
LISTEN. But listen, y'all don't
34:17
understand the reason why I call because
34:19
that is really my mentor in front of you
34:21
right there. No matter what, even though
34:23
we came out in 88, it was somebody doing
34:27
the same [ __ ] I was doing. So, it was
34:29
impressive. It was When I first heard
34:31
Groove Me, I was in London and I'm like,
34:33
"Yo, who the [ __ ] is this?" You know
34:36
what I'm saying? That that that is that
34:39
knows the funk and knows the one two
34:41
like that. That's why I called in. And
34:43
no matter what she was, Jazzy Jeff, our
34:45
first tour, the Runs House, ETMD, Jing,
34:48
Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, and Run DMC
34:52
was the greatest tour ever assembled
34:54
that people never saw on. There's
34:56
nothing on the web to look at that, but
34:58
I appreciate it. And Teddy, I love you,
34:59
Jeff. Jeff, I love you, Jeff.
35:01
Congratulations on the book. And Jeff,
35:02
congratulations on everything you're
35:03
doing, too. That's all I wanted to say.
35:05
>> Appreciate you.
35:05
>> I got I got one question.
35:07
>> Yo,
35:08
>> what what do you call me?
35:12
What's my nickname?
35:17
>> What do you call? You just said it.
35:20
>> He was the first person to call me one
35:21
two.
35:22
>> OH, ONE TWO. ERIC ser again. [laughter]
35:28
>> I like it.
35:29
>> And now everybody calls me one two.
35:31
>> I love it.
35:32
>> Hey, listen. Nobody again, Atomic Dog,
35:36
Parliament, Funkadelic, nobody was doing
35:39
this the way that we was doing it. And I
35:41
and I was surprised that somebody else
35:43
knew how to do what I was doing. I don't
35:46
give a [ __ ] what anybody say. I am
35:48
number uno. And then somebody else comes
35:51
from Harlem and takes my spot. So I
35:53
really didn't like that. [laughter]
35:57
>> Yo,
35:59
man.
36:00
>> Hey, we love you, man. Give it up for
36:04
>> I love y'all.
36:04
>> What love?
36:05
>> Love you, too, man. We got we got our VP
36:07
of programming for Pandora and Sirius XM
36:11
just walked in. Guys,
36:12
>> J1 is in THE BUILDING. J
36:15
>> ONE ONE, [laughter]
36:17
>> why you look worried?
36:19
>> I'm standing where Jazzy Jeff just did a
36:22
amazing set. Like I'm I'm in awe. I'm
36:24
trying not to look at the laptop. I go
36:26
[laughter] live.
36:29
[clears throat]
36:29
>> That's I'm looking at this face right
36:31
now. What's this?
36:31
>> See, you said he DJ right there. I
36:33
DIDN'T THINK OF YO, look at his laptop.
36:35
Take all that [ __ ]
36:36
>> No, no, no. He He's one of the reasons I
36:38
told him this earlier that I became a DJ
36:41
early in my career.
36:42
>> Wow. Nice.
36:43
>> Wow.
36:44
>> Yo, J J1 and uh Heather and I, we we
36:47
programmed these Garage series and
36:49
they've been incredible. We did about
36:50
five or six of them last year.
36:53
>> Yo, I just got Teddy Riley and Jazzy
36:55
Jeff to agree to do a garage. Look,
36:58
Teddy's nodding. Yes. See, I already to
37:00
do a garage series with the Teddy Riley
37:02
experience. all his talent
37:03
>> guy 2.0 and Jeff is going to come up as
37:06
well. It's up to you.
37:07
>> Oh, come on, man. This is amazing. I
37:09
already told you the story about Jeff.
37:11
And then Teddy's from Harlem. Like meet
37:13
me meet Teddy and Torch. Come on, man.
37:15
Harlem in the building.
37:17
>> Damn. [laughter] Okay, so it's good. Oh,
37:19
we all good.
37:20
>> We got them, man. Give it up, man. Good
37:21
up for these legends right here, man. I
37:23
want to take a couple of callers, man,
37:25
if y'all don't mind. They've been
37:26
holding for a long time. Let's go to
37:28
Orlando. Michelle in Orlando. Would you
37:30
like Florida? What's up, Michelle?
37:33
>> Hey, hey, Sway, Heather, everybody.
37:36
Thank you so much. Um,
37:38
>> first time caller, by the way.
37:40
>> We got a first time caller. [screaming]
37:44
>> Nice.
37:46
>> Welcome to the Teddy Riley experience.
37:48
>> All right.
37:49
>> Yes. Oh my gosh. So this this call I was
37:52
waiting and this just became so iconic
37:54
when Teddy arrived. But um I first
37:56
called to just give um DJ Jazzy Jeff his
37:59
flowers because your set I was driving
38:02
to work and oh my gosh I was like this
38:05
>> this is why he is the goat because I
38:08
mean your your tracks there the way you
38:10
blend your tracks is so smooth. It's
38:13
truly an art form to me. every
38:15
transition. It felt so effortless and it
38:17
was like you were just telling a story
38:19
through your sound. So, I just want to
38:21
thank you for keeping, you know, real DJ
38:23
culture alive and showing what
38:24
excellence sounds like. And, um, I have
38:27
two questions if that's okay.
38:29
>> Give me one. Give me one. Go ahead.
38:32
>> One. Ah, two. Okay. So, um, [laughter]
38:36
so for the both of them, um, if you
38:39
could build a set around one emotion,
38:42
not a genre, for an entire night, what
38:45
emotion would it be? And how would you
38:46
translate that into transitions?
38:48
>> Oo.
38:49
>> Whoa.
38:50
>> I love that question.
38:53
>> Yeah. Jeff got to go. Jeff got to go
38:56
right now. He only got a few minutes.
38:58
Okay.
39:00
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Hold on one second.
39:02
Michelle, hold on. Jeff, can you go get
39:04
on the turntables real quick? We got
39:05
like 5 minutes. She said 5 minutes.
39:07
>> She said 5 seconds.
39:08
>> He got to leave in 5 seconds.
39:10
>> Oh,
39:11
>> yeah. This
39:13
>> He got to leave in 5 seconds now.
39:15
>> That's the boss.
39:16
>> Lynette. Yeah. Shout out to Lynette.
39:18
>> No, he got
39:18
>> five minutes.
39:19
>> A few minutes. Yeah.
39:20
>> Jeff, can you get on the table? Amir
39:22
said he was going to spit. Can we do
39:23
that still?
39:24
>> Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right.
39:26
>> Jeff son is here. [laughter]
39:27
Jeff's son is here.
39:29
>> Shout out to Lynette. Shout out to the
39:30
family. Jeff is always with his family,
39:32
which is a beautiful That's success to
39:34
me. A man that could travel with his
39:36
family and be with his family all the
39:38
time while he's doing his thing. That's
39:39
success and love right there for sure.
39:42
>> And and Teddy, we we got to do a two
39:44
threepart conversation cuz you know, I
39:46
got five pages of notes, but I just
39:48
wanted to make sure you enjoyed yourself
39:50
here today. And congratulations on
39:53
what's ahead of you.
39:54
>> Amen. Thank you. Congratulations on
39:56
what's ahead of you because what's
39:58
behind you and what's now has been
40:01
already amazing.
40:02
>> I can't wait to see what's ahead of you,
40:04
brother.
40:04
>> I can't wait either.
40:06
>> Yeah, man. Well, we going to be a part
40:07
of it though. I'm telling you that now.
40:09
Is that Sway over there? That's me
40:11
>> still.
40:11
>> Okay. [laughter] Amir is here. What's
40:14
up, man?
40:14
>> Oh, man. I'm chilling. I'm honored to be
40:16
here.
40:17
>> Honored to have you. Now,
40:18
>> Jeff's son is not eating. You do a
40:20
multitude of things, right?
40:22
>> Yes, for sure.
40:22
>> Speak on it. Well, I'm a actor and a
40:24
rapper. I've been on some Disney Channel
40:26
shows and things like that and of course
40:28
the theater scene. I grew up out here in
40:30
LA, so you know, but uh yeah, music is
40:33
my my first love and I've been diligent
40:35
with it for the past like 10 years.
40:37
>> He sent you sent me some music I would
40:38
thoroughly enjoyed. Um I love your
40:41
producer, your production here. We got
40:42
Teddy Riley right here.
40:44
>> It's an honor and a privilege.
40:45
>> And he's a spitter, Teddy. So Teddy done
40:47
worked with some of the greatest MC's of
40:49
all time, man. Shout out to Heavy D,
40:52
too, man.
40:53
power. Okay. So, you going to spit. See,
40:55
he thought he was just going to spit for
40:56
us. Heather,
40:57
>> he didn't know Teddy Riley was going to
40:59
be nice of you. He didn't know that,
41:01
right? So, we going to see what he made
41:03
of right now. Air, where you live?
41:05
>> I live in Delaware. Live right outside
41:07
of Philadelphia.
41:08
>> Where you at right now?
41:10
>> [ __ ] I'm in Sway in the morning.
41:11
>> You know WHERE YOU AT? THE VALLEY OF A
41:13
HYENA. [screaming]
41:13
>> LET'S GO, BABY.
41:17
>> YEAH. YEAH.
41:21
OKAY.
41:23
WAIT, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold
41:24
up, hold up, hold up,
41:25
>> hold on, hold on.
41:27
>> Hold up, hold up. Microphone. Is that
41:30
Jeff? [music]
41:32
>> We live. Sway in. The morning shade 45.
41:35
We just getting it right. This is what
41:37
happen when you live.
41:38
>> Let's take it from the top, Jeff. Let's
41:39
take it from the top. All right, [music]
41:41
here we go.
41:41
>> Is this the first time we doing this?
41:43
Like father son.
41:44
>> Father son cipher right here.
41:46
>> Turn that mute. There we go. Okay. GJ
41:48
Jazzy Jeff on the one and twos. Okay, on
41:50
the MC we got a hyena.
41:52
>> Here we go.
41:53
>> Hyena, let's get it.
41:55
>> What's going on people? The place is in
41:57
shambles. Price of the egg is above
41:59
getting scrambled. [music] Handle B
42:01
before it get abandoned. Microphone
42:03
checking. Somebody under what's going
42:05
on. The powers that be have been
42:07
tripping. Time to establish some roles
42:09
in positions [music] like you grow
42:11
produce. You could go fishing. I'll be
42:13
right here with a sniff. Like what's
42:15
going on? Winters cosplay as summers.
42:17
Robots fighting for rights that even
42:19
folk don't got on black blocks
42:21
politicking with our mothers. Like if
42:22
one dies have another way, what's
42:24
[music] going on? We might need the cast
42:26
meeting. Reread the script. There's
42:28
beats we ain't beating. Pause. Huh? Who
42:30
around here is in charge? For anybody
42:32
who can recognize struggle. Tell me
42:34
what's good in the city. What's good on
42:36
the A? What's good in the gritty parts
42:38
where it get bad? What's good in the BBS
42:40
where [ __ ] grew up with dads? What's
42:42
good on the block I lived on in the past
42:44
is [music] called whistling duck or shoe
42:46
on a hill. Black folk with a buck who
42:48
breed people that kill. Murder cap
42:49
constructed the jersey used to be
42:51
bullets. [ __ ] work for the government
42:52
selling work to the fullest. This year
42:54
is life in the land. Chocolate city
42:56
descendant. [ __ ] frying a band. Go
42:58
attendant [music] pool table with dice.
43:00
Granner handled the kitchen. Uncle ready
43:02
to fight while cousins laughing and
43:03
grinning. It's real [music] life, but
43:04
it's like it wasn't when it was mine.
43:06
Hit different when [ __ ] is not the age
43:08
of their moms. Where did all of it go?
43:09
Like what's good with the time? Playless
43:11
live the show. A mere FLOW IN THE RHYME.
43:14
[screaming]
43:16
YES SIR. Yes sir.
43:18
>> WE GOT A HIGH UP IN HERE.
43:20
>> HYENA. [screaming]
43:23
>> WOW.
43:24
>> With that clear flow
43:27
>> bars in between.
43:29
>> Now say your name. Tell them your name.
43:31
>> Name is air representing representing uh
43:33
DC for sure.
43:34
>> Fire. What shows did that did you work
43:37
did you work on?
43:38
>> I was on Girl Meets World. I was on Girl
43:40
Meets World for show. Yeah. The Boy
43:42
Meets World spin-off. I I had a couple
43:44
runs on it. That was two seasons.
43:45
>> Wow, man. Teddy, [applause] it's up to
43:48
you, man. Is he official? What do you
43:49
think?
43:50
>> Definitely official. I hope I hope I get
43:52
the call. [laughter]
43:56
>> Right.
43:57
>> All right. I'm I'm in.
43:59
>> Wow.
44:01
>> There you have Teddy Riley working with
44:02
you, man. Come on, man. Man, I would
44:05
like for you to get with my sons. They
44:07
they produce.
44:08
>> Let's do it.
44:09
>> So, just get the sons in the room.
44:11
>> Yeah. Yeah. Hard. Listen, Jeff has to
44:14
go. God is awesome, man. Amir, proud of
44:17
you, man. How come people reach you,
44:18
Amir?
44:18
>> Oh, I'm on Instagram, uh, Mer. And look
44:21
out for me everywhere. I'm here.
44:23
>> Jeff, I know you got to go. Thank you
44:24
for spending the whole show with us this
44:26
morning. I know it's a surprise. Jeff,
44:29
how if they want to reach you, they can
44:30
reach you at djazzy Jeff.com.
44:33
>> DJ Jazzy Jeff.com.
44:35
>> Teddy Riley. How can they reach you?
44:37
>> I am Teddy Rally. One word, the number
44:40
one. Teddy Riley one. Remember the time
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set to release February 10th.
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