{"id":226421,"date":"2026-04-24T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=226421"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:16:18","slug":"teddy-riley-appears-on-drink-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/teddy-riley-appears-on-drink-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Riley appears on Drink Champs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QHUXxqxbIgM?si=fHCD26Y-Wt39S5X9\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teddy Riley<\/strong> pulled up to Drink Champs and gave us one of the most legendary episodes ever. He broke down how he created New Jack Swing, what it was really like working with<strong> Michael Jackson<\/strong> in the studio, and how he discovered<strong> Pharrell<\/strong> and <strong>Timbaland<\/strong> at a talent show in Virginia. He talked about growing up in Harlem with <strong>Rich Porter<\/strong> and<strong> Alpo<\/strong>, the <strong>Bobby Brown<\/strong> My Prerogative session that almost didn&#8217;t happen, and living in Korea for two years doing K-pop. Teddy also shared the real <strong>Prince vs Michael Jackson<\/strong> story with the VHS tape and <strong>James Brown<\/strong> concert. This man has been shaping music for 40 years and the stories are unreal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"226422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/teddy-riley-appears-on-drink-champs\/teddy-riley-drink-champs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Teddy Riley drink champs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226422\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs.avif 1280w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teddy-Riley-drink-champs-768x432.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Teddy Riley pulled up to Drink Champs and gave us one of the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-lifestyle","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WTX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226424,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226421\/revisions\/226424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}