Teddy Riley Talks Michael Jackson, New Jack Swing & 20th Anniversary of 'No Diggity'

Teddy Riley Talks Michael Jackson, New Jack Swing & 20th Anniversary of 'No Diggity' Teddy Riley Talks Michael Jackson, New Jack Swing and twentieth Anniversary of 'No Diggity' I never sit on my butt," says the 2016 Soul Train Awards Legend honoree. From new jack swing to working together with an orchestra? That may seem like a noteworthy jump, however not for Teddy Riley. Music fans can hear why when his Grammy-winning, limit pushing vocation is saluted this end of the week as he acknowledges the Legend Award ("I'm so thankful") amid the 2016 Soul Train Awards (Nov. 27 by means of Centric/BET, 8 p.m. ET). "I've generally longed for doing an orchestra execution," Riley says of only one of a few undertakings on his plate. "What's more, I generally attempt to pursue my fantasies." Riley's vocation itself peruses like a fantasy list. An establishing individual from essential R&B bunches Guy and BLACKstreet, the musician/maker/craftsman additionally led the R&B combination branch new jack swing in the late '80s. What's more, he's racked up a's who of credits, extending from Michael Jackson and his Dangerous collection (counting the hit "Recollect the Time") to Kool Moe Dee, MC Hammer, Doug E. New, Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Snoop Dogg, Wreckx-N-Effect and Lady Gaga (co-composing "Teeth" on The Fame Monster EP).