After so many hits, there could only be one winner...
-- took turns spinning their respective classics, to the delight of music fans across social media.
Such issues also threatened to compromise the duo's third try at the event, as viewers were told to decamp from Teddy Riley's page to Babyface's, and then Babyface had trouble patching Riley through to his own page. But by 8:10pm, both writer-producers were present and accounted for, and sounding good -- finally ready to get the battle going.
Rather than run back"The Show" as his opener like he attempted to use it on Saturday, Teddy instead opened with one of his greatest '90s smashes, SWV's"Right Here." Babyface countered by telling a story about Michael Jackson using him to try to set up a date with Halle Berry -- which ended up being a segue into a Halle quote from, and then his own '90s R&B opener from that movie's soundtrack, Toni Braxton's"Love Shoulda Brought You Home.
"I gotta keep it in the clubs... a world-renowned, incredible, one of the greatest rappers of all-time," Teddy teases, before dropping a Roc-a-Fella hit that heproduce in Jay-Z's"The City Is Mine." Not the Jiggaman's all-time best, certainly, but just having a single with Jay is a flex for Riley. Babyface returning with maybe his fourth-best single off Bobby Brown'sRound 12: Bobby Brown's"On Our Own" vs.
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