.TeddyRiley1 Talks His Verzuz Battle With Babyface, and His Rocky Road to (and From) Fame
If there’s any doubt about the impact of the event, Riley’s Instagram IG followers increased 141% — from 328,000 to 855,000 — while his Twitter following registered a 3021.4% increase. And what’s particularly remarkable is that neither Riley or Babyface’s music has been lighting up the charts recently — their golden years of the ’90’s are long gone. However, the songs, artists and the halcyon era they represented, ensured a captive audience of half a million, with a reported 3.
“That was what I loved about it, because to be cyber-roasted [is like a badge of honor],” he says. “When I rolled with it, Timbaland sent a message, ‘Yo, that guy’s a G! I don’t know how he’s able to take it.’” While the two hold each other in high esteem, both writers came from the opposite ends of the musical spectrum: Riley from the gritty streets of ’80’s Harlem and Edmonds from comparatively calm Indianapolis. Like all great producers, Riley was able to modify his sound as technology changed.
A fracas at a Guy/ New Edition concert in 1989 left Guy’s bodyguard Anthony Bee dead. “The beef was more with the backline,” Riley explains. “We pulled in [to the concert] and everything had [already] happened — we heard on the news that my best friend, again, got shot.”
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