{"id":2335036,"date":"2026-03-18T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2335036"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:11:37","slug":"teddy-riley-apologizes-to-keith-sweat-after-unpaid-credits-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/teddy-riley-apologizes-to-keith-sweat-after-unpaid-credits-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Riley apologizes to Keith Sweat after unpaid\u2011credits claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-332860\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Recording artist and music producer <strong>Teddy Riley<\/strong> is walking back comments he made in a recent interview claiming he was never paid for the hit records he produced on <strong>Keith Sweat\u2019s <\/strong>multi\u2011platinum debut, \u201cMake It Last Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on\u00a0the \u201cWe in Miami\u201d podcast, he alleged he only received a flat fee of\u00a0$1,500 \u00a0with no royalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riley took to Instagram to clarify his remarks and publicly apologize to Sweat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeith Sweat is my brother. We\u2019re family,\u201d Riley wrote. \u201cMy words were taken out of context, and I never want there to be confusion about where my heart stands.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Riley said his comments were aimed at the label \u2014 not Sweat \u2014 and the long\u2011standing issue of artists and producers being shortchanged by the industry.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe conversation was about business\u2026 not about tearing each other down,\u201d he continued. \u201cTwo artists can acknowledge being shortchanged and still have love and respect for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.stlamerican.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording artist and music producer Teddy Riley is walking back comments he made in a recent interview claiming he was never paid for the hit records he produced on Keith Sweat\u2019s multi\u2011platinum debut, \u201cMake It Last Forever.\u201d During an appearance on\u00a0the \u201cWe in Miami\u201d podcast, he alleged he only received a flat fee of\u00a0$1,500 \u00a0with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teddy-Riley-apologizes-to-Keith-Sweat-after-unpaid\u2011credits-claim.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335038,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335036\/revisions\/2335038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}