Why is Teddy Riley finally releasing his memoir after sitting on it for 12 years?

""I don't eat beef, I don't eat pork, I don't eat chicken," he says. "The cleanest of all the poultry is turkey, so I'll do white-meat turkey or I'll do sea bass. No dirty fish - no shrimp, no catfish, no tilapia. And I do my herbs every day. "Which herbs? "It's a long list," he says. "Vitamin C, zinc, key lime. I do my bees and my glutathione, and then I do my black walnuts because that's a part of helping kill the parasites in the body." Riley notes proudly that he refused the COVID vaccine. "I'm more into natural things.""

""Riley reflects on his six decades in a new memoir, "Remember the Times." Co-written with author Jake Brown, the book chronicles Riley's invention of new jack swing, the plush yet hard-knocking soul-music sound originating from Harlem that came to dominate Black pop in the late '80s and early 1990s. New jack swing - the term was coined by the writer Barry Michael Cooper in a profile of Riley in the Village Voice - layered sensual vocals over programmed, sample-heavy beats, bridging the gap between R&B and hip-hop.""

""Teddy Riley sits down in the restaurant of the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills and tells a server, "All I want is a lemonade and some French fries." He and I will share two orders of fries, actually - one regular and one truffle. The trailblazing R&B musician and producer - known for his run of hits that includes Keith Sweat's "I Want Her," Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" and "No Diggity" by his group Blackstreet - is particular these days about what he puts into his body.""

Teddy Riley chooses simple restaurant fare and limits his diet to turkey, sea bass and selected supplements while avoiding beef, pork, chicken and certain fish. He takes daily supplements including vitamin C, zinc, glutathione and black walnuts and says he refused the COVID vaccine in favor of natural remedies. Riley notes his approaching 60th birthday and appears healthy and alert. He reflects on six decades in music and the invention of new jack swing, a sound that layered sensual vocals over programmed, sample-heavy beats bridging R&B and hip-hop.

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